"We're of one mind." – Michael Hale, president/CEO of $784 million Andrews FCU on the turnout from NCUA,CUNA and NAFCU officials and other industry notables at the grand opening of a District of Columbia branch, which will serve people of modest means. "Pennsylvania needs to get tough on payday lending. Sitting around and waiting for Washington to do something about it just isn't an option. Make no mistake, if a bill to ban this industry found its way through the legislature and on to the Governor's desk, he would sign it." – Bill Schenck, Pennsylvania Secretary of Banking, testifying before the state Senate Banking and Insurance Committee on the urgency of the state passing predatory lending legislation. "NAFCU paid for flu shots for all of us for Christmas. We got stuck." -

NAFCU Communications Manager Rebecca Somers on the trade association doing its part to avoid a flu pandemic.

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