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Carol Malecki, past president of Educational Credit Union, has been appointed to the Kansas Credit Union Council by Gov. Kathleen Sebelius.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate Banking Committee approved an amendment giving the NCUA the authority to borrow $6 billion from the Treasury Department.

A spokesman for the Electronic Payments Coalition said retailers' latest efforts to intimidate members of Congress into cutting or capping card interchange reflected their desperation to find traction on the issue.

The Driving Home Lending Symposium held by Prime Alliance Solutions Inc. and CUDL has been rescheduled for 2010.

The Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee is scheduled to hold a confirmation hearing tomorrow for Karen Mills to be the next administrator of the Small Business Administration.

The "iBelong" awareness campaign, launched in 2007 by the Pennsylvania Credit Union Association and now in two other states, is spreading next week to Vermont with a TV ad blitz being licensed by the Association of Vermont Credit Unions.