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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.

• Trades Have Mixed Results in Tuesday's Elections

  By Claude R. Marx  |  August 25, 2010

  The political action committees of CUNA and NAFCU won some and lost some in yesterday's primary elections.

• Regulatory Overhaul Conference Committee Slated to Convene Today

  By Claude R. Marx  |  June 10, 2010

  The issue of regulating interchange fees will be one of the topics lawmakers have to deal with when the House-Senate conference committee meets today to reconcile the differences between the financial reform bills passed by both chambers.

• Senate Names Conferees on Regulatory Overhaul

  By Claude R. Marx  |  May 25, 2010

  The chairmen and ranking Republicans of the Senate Agriculture and Banking committees are among the 12 senators named to the Senate-House conference committee that will reconcile differences between the regulatory overhauls.

• Vermont Is Poised to Become First State With a Card Interchange Law

  By David Morrison  |  May 19, 2010

  Vermont might become the first state to enact a law regulating whether and how retailers pay card interchange fees.

• Trades Are Ramping Up Campaign Giving as Primaries Approach

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 31, 2010

  The campaign giving patterns of CUNA and NAFCU in February could be best described as the calm before the proverbial storm.