CUNA is pulling out all the stops by scheduling June 8-9 Washington fly-in, call-in conferences, blanket e-mails, grassroots visits and more in its no-holds-barred campaign to block interchange language from being included in the final financial regulatory bill now slated to go before House-Senate conferees.
It's too early to know what response CUNA was getting from the communications barrage aimed at mustering the full gamut of CU managers, employees, directors and members to contact key legislators including the House-Senate conferees slated to take up the Durbin amendment.
In e-mails sent yesterday, CUNA said it had reserved 3,000 lines for participants of a special half-hour call-in today at 2 pm Eastern time, during which President/CEO Dan Mica will describe credit union concerns regarding the amendment and plead with CU leaders to engage at the grassroots level over the Memorial Day holiday.
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"Our call will outline the actions credit unions must take to reach our goal of removing the interchange amendment from the financial reform legislation before it is enacted into law," said Mica. "We know this is short notice, but I urge all credit unions to dial into today's call. Next week's Memorial Day recess gives us an immediate opportunity to deliver our message to members of Congress while they are back home."
State leagues, receiving the word from CUNA, were trying to rearrange schedules to possibly join the June 8-9 Hike the Hill type event which one league official said "could go on another day if needed."
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