Phillip Matous, president/CEO of the $53 million Total Community Credit Union of Taylor, Mich. has thrown the book – a heavy one – back at his legislators and regulators.

To emphasize how the compliance burden on credit unions has reached a "ridiculous" point, Matous printed copies of the 1,099-page Consumer Financial Protection Bureau request for comment on its proposed combined mortgage disclosure rules and mailed them with his comment letter to U.S. Reps. John Dingell (D-Mich.) and Gary Peters (D-Mich.), U.S. Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Carl Levin (D-Mich.), CFPB Director Richard Cordray and NCUA Chairman Debbie Matz.

Printed double-sided, Matous said the request for comment is more than 2 inches thick.

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