WASHINGTON-The House Financial Services Committee held a hearing last week entitled, "Legislative Proposals to Implement the Recommendations of the 9/11 Commission." The Sept. 22 hearing focused on strengthening title III of the USA PATRIOT Act to fight terrorism, according to a release from Committee Chairman Mike Oxley's (R-Ohio) office. The...

WASHINGTON-CUNA and NAFCU recently submitted comments to Senator Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), who is in charge of drafting regulatory relief legislation in the Senate, on the `matrix' of provisions under consideration for the bill that he has circulated. "As you may recall from our testimony before the Senate Banking Committee on...

MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa. - More than a week after US Airways filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, talks resumed on Sept. 22 with its pilots' union on a new labor pact. The nation's seventh largest carrier filed on Sept. 12. In a prepared statement, the Air Line Pilots Association said...

WASHINGTON-Few people are lucky enough to turn a hobby into a money making proposition. NAFCU Communications Manager John Zimmerman has put his passion for photography to work for him. "My principle goal is to make enough money to carry on my habit," he said, adding that he is getting there....