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• MBL Hike Lower on CUNA Priorities

  By Heather Anderson  |  January 9, 2013

  CUNA announced new legislative priorities for 2013 that include four key agenda items: preserving the credit union tax exemption, reducing regulatory burden, engaging in housing finance reform and advancing credit union charter enhancements.

• Lobbyists Say TAG Bill Not a Legislative Defeat for CUs

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 27, 2012

  Hope held out for packaging Transactional Account Guarantee extension with member business lending cap hike.

• ‘Skunk at a Garden Party’: Bankers Reject MBL-TAG Package

  By Heather Anderson  |  November 26, 2012

  ICBA exec calls NAFCU letter to senators supporting the package bill "obscene."

• ICBA Worried About Deposit and Loan Transfers to Big Banks if TAG Expires

  By Heather Anderson  |  August 29, 2012

  Small bank trade pushing hard for Congress to extend FDIC coverage of noninterest-bearing transaction accounts before it expires Dec. 31.

• Small Business Owners Frustrated by MBL Cap

  By Michelle A. Samaad  |  August 11, 2011

  More entrepreneurs are expressing their irritation with the credit union member business lending cap

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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.

• MBL Hike May Fall Victim to Procedure and Politics

  By Claude R. Marx  |  July 14, 2010

  CUNA and NAFCU often say that during the recent financial crisis their members wore the white hats.