CURIA Waits for Bipartisan Senate Gesture To Occur

Credit Union Journal, The, April, 2008

Five weeks after being promised a Senate version of CURIA–the CU Regulatory Improvements Act–the CU lobby still is waiting for the bill, as a second shoe to drop.

That shoe would be worn by a Senate Republican, indicating bipartisan support for the key credit union bill, which is holding up introduction of the measure in the upper chamber, credit union lobbyists told the Credit Union Journal.

The introduction of the bill in the Senate was hailed at CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference last month, when Louisiana Democrat Mary Landrieu told more than 4,000 credit union executives and directors she and her Democratic cohort, Joe Lieberman of Connecticut, would be introducing CURIA in the Senate, giving it a big boost. However, five weeks later, the bill has yet to...

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