WASHINGTON - The Senate comes back today and the House laterthis week for a session at which lawmakers will consider measuresaimed at lessening the impact of the current economic crisis.
|Bills to extend unemployment benefits, provide loan guaranteesto the troubled automobile industry and jumpstart the economy couldbe taken up. The stumbling block could be the Senate where therules require most measures to have 60 votes (out of 100 members)to pass. Democrats will have increased majorities in both chamberswhen the new Congress convenes next year but it is still unclear ifthey will have 60 votes in the Senate.
|The unemployment extension is considered the least controversialof the measures and thus, more likely to pass.
|Lobbyists for CUNA and NAFCU have said they would try to getsome kind of regulatory relief-including raising the cap on memberbusiness loans--in any stimulus bill but have said that is morelikely to happen next year.
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