Sarah Snell Cooke's Editor's Colum Aug. 5 noting the importance of providing credit union access to capital a top legislative item for 2011 could not have been timelier.

As she states, "Healthy credit unions should be permitted to offer members the ability to invest in their financial institution … [maintaining] the one vote philosophy."

It is important to note, as NAFCU has long advocated, that the term "members" includes both natural persons and non-natural person entities, as currently set forth in law and regulation.

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