Joseph Lieberman

• NCUA Joins Independent Financial Regulators Opposing S. 3468

  By Heather Anderson  |  October 30, 2012

  Bill would require NCUA and others to first gain approval from OMB before issuing new regulations.

• Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers to Be Honorary Chairs of CU Cherry Blossom Run

  By Claude R. Marx  |  February 2, 2012

  So far 130 members of the House and Senate representing both parties and a range of ideological views have agreed be honorary chairs of the Credit Union Cherry Blossom Run.

• CU Lobbyists Waging Last-Minute Effort to Push Interchange Measure

  By Claude R. Marx  |  June 8, 2011

  Senate vote expected at 2 p.m. today; sources report that measure delaying interchange cap within a few votes of passing.

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  Sen. Udall's Business Lending Bill Lives to Fight On

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 16, 2011

  Here we go again. Saying that it would “expand the options for small businesses at no expense to taxpayers,” Sen. Mark Udall (D-Colo.) last week reintroduced a measure to raise the cap on member business lending from 12.25% of assets to as much as 27.5% of assets.

• CUs Deserve a Complete Capital Restructuring

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  January 26, 2011

  NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz renewed her call for supplemental capital for credit unions in a letter to the Senate Banking and House Financial Services Committees.

• Lieberman Announces Retirement

  By Claude R. Marx  |  January 19, 2011

  Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.), who has worked to help credit unions achieve several of their legislative goals, announced today that he won't run for a fifth term next year.