Subcommittee on Financial Institutions

• NAFCU Renews Push For MBL Hike

  By Claude R. Marx  |  October 6, 2011

  NAFCU brings up MBL again.

• Rep. Shelley Moore Capito Has No Plans for Hearings on the NCUA

  By Claude R. Marx  |  September 23, 2011

  West Virginia Republican says "communications with the agency have been very good."

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  Capito Holds Forth on Interchange, Other Issues

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 13, 2011

  Less than four months into her tenure as chairman of the House subcommittee with primary jurisdiction over credit unions and other financial institutions, Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) has already tackled a wide range of issues.

• CUNA Endorses Some Changes to Consumer Bureau Structure

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 5, 2011

  CUNA will endorse putting a credit union member on a five-member board that some lawmakers are proposing to run the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection, and will support allowing a council of regulators to overturn bureau decisions by a majority vote.

• NAFCU Endorses Changes in the Consumer Bureau

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 5, 2011

  NAFCU will endorse GOP-backed legislation to have the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau governed by a five-member board and allow its decisions to be overturned by majority vote of a council of regulators.

• Trades Sending Witnesses to Consumer Agency Hearing

  By Claude R. Marx  |  April 4, 2011

  Washington Gas Light FCU President/CEO Lynnette Smith and State Employees Credit Union of Maryland President/CEO Rodney Staatz will discuss the impact of the new consumer bureau on credit unions at a House subcommittee hearing on Wednesday.

• Trades Seek To Maim Interchange Cap

  By Claude R. Marx  |  March 2, 2011

  Comment letters, congressional testimony and in-person visits with lawmakers in Washington are key components of a concerted strategy to kill, delay implementation of or at the least modify the Federal Reserve’s proposed rule on debit interchange fees.