WASHINGTON—When members of Congress return to Washington following the Nov. 5 elections, the Defense Credit Union Council (DCUC) will be pressing elected officials to block the inclusion of the Credit Card Competition Act (CCCA) from any pieces of legislation, DCUC said.
DCUC’s primary concern, as the trade association stated last week, is including the CCCA in a disaster relief bill, said DCUC Chief Advocacy Officer Jason Stverak.
Stverak said that following the elections DCUC will be meeting with officials on both sides of the aisle to address the CCCA.
“We want to ensure that as both chambers rightly consider supplemental disaster relief that they understand the CCCA should not be part of that piece of legislation,” he said. “The CCA would dramatically alter the payment system in the American economy, and if it were to be added to must-pass legislation without going through the regular order, that would be chilling. We would hope that Congress would allow the committee process to work.”