The industry's fervent interchange blitz to kill the Durbin amendment continued to build momentum Wednesday with CUNA projecting its membership will have conducted 100,000 electronic and verbal contacts with lawmakers by day's end.
CUNA and NAFCU were soliciting a flood of e-mails, phone calls, branch petitions from members, employees and volunteers to contact key Congressmen to defeat the amendment when it reaches a Senate/House conference perhaps next week.
State leagues were also making hurry-up arrangements, hiring buses and booking Washington hotel rooms for an impromptu CUNA-sponsored June 8-10 Hike the Hill rally to bring more pressure on lawmakers.
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