WASHINGTON -- The Credit Union Regulatory Improvements Act (H.R. 1537) reached 100 co-sponsors last week as press time was running out.

Representative Jane Harman (D-Calif.) was the ceremonial 100th co-sponsor. Six other legislators signed on last week as well, including Representatives Dennis Kucinich (D-Ohio), Robert Brady (D-Pa.), James T. Walsh (R-N.Y.), Timothy Bishop (D-N.Y.), Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Peter Roskam (R-Ill.). These additions in the 110th Congress, two of which had not been on the bill in previous Congress', brought the total to 100 co-sponsors. It had 125 co-sponsors sign up over the two years of the 109th Congress, but has reached 100 in not yet three months.

CURIA has 12 new co-sponsors this year, improving on the 11 lost from last Congress due to lost elections, retirement, moving to higher office, and death. Of the

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