Interchange proposals being considered in Washington, D.C., will make using credit cards riskier and more expensive, wrote Kathy Harrington, president of Heartland Credit Union, Inver Grove Heights, Minn., in the Brainerd Dispatch this week. 

The Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee voted unanimously to advance NCUA board nominee Tanya Otsuka for a Senate floor vote. If confirmed, she would take the seat of current board member Rodney Hood, whose term expired in August.