CUNA leaders provide context for advocacy goals during CUNA GAC

As more than 5,500 credit union leaders attended CUNA’s Governmental Affairs Conference (GAC), which included visits to just about every office on Capitol Hill, CUNA leaders also placed policy goals in publications that reach both Congressional offices and the credit union community.

The ways credit unions advance communities, the need for data security legislation, the importance of raising credit union awareness, the need to tell stories and the community benefits of governance updates were all discussed on the CUNA GAC stage, but also laid out in detail in the pages of various publications, giving important context to policymakers that spent time with credit union advocates throughout the week.

• CUNA President/CEO Jim Nussle in The Hill, one of the most widely read publications in Congressional offices, expressed dismay that Congress may not pass data security and privacy legislation this year, as “we need Congress to pass legislation that sets a strong national data security and privacy standard that considers the data collected, not the collector of that data. That is, whether you’re collecting and storing consumer data for a credit union, a school, or a local shop owner, that data must be treated the same, irrespective of the institution’s business model.”

 

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