WASHINGTON — Twitter and timing, taxes and terrorism all helped make for a lively Governmental Affairs Conference last week in the nation's capital.

On Feb. 25, member credit unions participated in CUNA's Don't Tax My CU Twitter campaign in support of the credit union tax exemption. The next day, the House Ways & Means Committee came out with a tax reform plan that left the exemption at peace.

Meanwhile, talk resurfaced about the unrelated business income tax, an issue credit unions may have thought they had long put behind them. 

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