Hill Hearings to Watch! Posted by AVCU on 12:20 PM

Although the schedule on Capitol Hill is tentative this week as Washington digs out from one historic snowstorm and braces for another, CUNA is monitoring three scheduled Congressional hearings of potential interest to credit unions:

1. Ronald Covey, President/CEO of St. Mary's Bank CU, Manchester, NH, is among the witnesses scheduled to testify Thursday at a House Financial Services Committee-House Small Business Committee joint-hearing on the "Condition of Small Business and Commercial Real Estate Lending in Local Communities
2. Tomorrow, the House Small Business Committee will conduct a hearing on the Small Business Administration's budget for fiscal year 2011 at which SBA Administrator Karen Mills is scheduled to testify
3. Also tomorrow, the Senate Banking Committee’s subcommittee hearing on "Equipping Financial Regulators with Tools Necessary to Monitor Systemic Risk” takes place.