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Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Ala., a member of the House Financial Services Committee and Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has joined the growing slate of speakers set for NAFCU's Congressional Caucus, slated for Sept. 18-21 in Washington.

Sewell serves on the Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets and Government Sponsored Enterprises and the Subcommittee on Monetary Policy and Trade. She serves as the ranking member for the Intelligence Subcommittee on Department of Defense Intelligence and Overhead Architecture. Sewell also serves as chief deputy whip and sits on the Democratic Steering and Policy Committee.

Also new to the speaker list is the Treasury Department's Brian J. Peretti. Peretti is the acting director of the Treasury's Office of Critical Infrastructure Protection and Compliance Policy, where he supervises the planning and implementation of policies relating to critical infrastructure, cybersecurity and homeland security.

Other recent additions to the speaker slate include Harriet Tregoning, the principal deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Community Planning and Development at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and former presidential candidate Ted Cruz, a Republican senator from Texas.

Also scheduled are:

• Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., the author of NAFCU-sought legislation to require that rules be tailored to financial institutions' risk profiles;
• House Financial Services Committee Ranking Member Maxine Waters, D-Calif.;
• Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., who led a NAFCU-backed letter from 70 senators urging CFPB to make better use of its exemption authority; and
• House Financial Services Subcommittee Chairman Randy Neugebauer, R-Texas, who is also the lead on the NAFCU-supported "Data Security Act" (H.R. 2205) and the chief sponsor of a NAFCU-backed bill that would repeal the Durbin amendment (H.R. 5465).

The Congressional Caucus is NAFCU's credit union lobbying event of the year; register now. For updates, follow #NAFCUCaucus on Twitter.