WASHINGTON – Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) told attendees of NAFCU's 2015 Congressional Caucus that efforts to amend the Dodd-Frank Act in order to provide regulatory relief failed this year – and will keep failing as long as the bill's opponents bring forth efforts to repeal the measure or make major changes to it.

Brown (pictured) told his audience's mix of credit union industry executives and board members that he supported regulatory relief, especially for financial institutions with less than $10 billion in assets, but said neither he nor other Democratic senators would go along with efforts to gut or repeal the bill.

"We just aren't going to do that," Brown said.

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