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  CU Taxes a Target for New Budget Panel?

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 10, 2011

  Credit unions dodged a taxation bullet with the latest spending reduction package, but it remains to be seen how long their luck will hold.

• CU Tax Exemption May Draw Fire From New Budget Panel: Print Preview

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 4, 2011

  This article will be among the news and features filling the pages of the next print edition of Credit Union Times.

• Hispanic Chamber Urges Caution on Interchange

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 18, 2011

  The Hispanic community will “suffer a significant burden,” if Congress and regulators don’t study the unintended consequences of the Durbin amendment to regulate debit interchange fees, Hispanic Chamber of Commerce President/CEO Javier Palomarez conveyed to Senate leaders.

• Trades Taking Next Steps on MBL Legislation

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 10, 2011

  CUNA and NAFCU are urging more senators to sign on as co-sponsors of Sen. Mark Udall’s bill to raise the cap on member business lending.

• Kyl Announces Retirement from Senate

  By Claude R. Marx  |  February 10, 2011

  Saying that "there's more to life than being a United States Senator," Assistant Minority Leader/Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) announced today he will not seek re-election next year.

• Dear Ben, Just a Note to....Dear Ben, Just a Note

  By Sarah Snell Cooke  |  February 2, 2011

  For the Federal Reserve employees who are diligently reviewing comment letters regarding the proposed regulation on interchange, it might have seemed like they were living in the movie Groundhog Day.

• On-Site Coverage: McConnell Doubts Senate Will Take Up Debit Interchange

  By Claude R. Marx  |  January 25, 2011

  WASHINGTON - Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell threw cold water on the likelihood that the Senate might revisit the interchange amendment that was passed as part of last year's financial overhaul bill.

• CU Trade Associations Turn Up Heat on Member Business Lending

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 15, 2010

  After a last minute whirlwind of appeals to President Obama and Congress to consider legislation that would increase the member business lending cap, both CUNA and NAFCU are urging credit unions not to let up.

• NAFCU Continues MBL Cap Increase Appeal

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  September 3, 2010

  Two more letters went out yesterday from NAFCU to key lawmakers urging the inclusion of language that would increase the member business lending cap.

• NAFCU Writes Senate Leaders on ATM Amendment

  By David Morrison  |  May 19, 2010

  NAFCU has written U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) over its concern with an amendment capping ATM fees.