Sewell, Peretti join Congressional Caucus speaker slate

Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., a member of the House Financial Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has joined the growing slate of speakers set for NAFCU’s Congressional Caucus, slated for Sept. 18-21 in Washington.

Sewell serves on the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises and the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade. She serves as the ranking member for the Intelligence Subcommittee on Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture. Sewell also serves as chief deputy whip and sits on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Also new to the speaker list is the Treasury Department’s Brian J. Peretti. Peretti is the acting director of the Treasury’s Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy, where he supervises the planning and implementation of policies relating to critical infrastructure, cybersecurity and homeland security.

Other recent additions to the speaker slate include Harriet Tregoning, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Community Planning and Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas.

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