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NAFCU President and CEO Dan Berger and the association's executive staff gave some straight talk on the association's award-winning advocacy and efforts during an hour-long session with member credit unions in Seattle Tuesday.

Session attendees heard from Berger, NAFCU Executive Vice President of Government Affairs and General Counsel Carrie Hunt, Executive Vice President and COO Anthony Demangone and NAFCU Services Corporation President Randy Salser.

The discussion – held in conjunction with the association's 51st Annual Conference and Solutions Expo – gave NAFCU members an inside look into the association's progress on efforts to win regulatory relief. NAFCU has been heavily engaged on Capitol Hill and with regulators this year advocating for passage of credit union regulatory relief measures.

Most recently, Berger has held meetings with Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection (previously the CFPB) Acting Director Mick Mulvaney, NCUA Board Chair J. Mark McWatters, Senate Banking Committee Chairman Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, and House Majority Whip Steve Scalise, R-La., among others.

The conversation also talked about how NAFCU's and credit unions' efforts were key in securing passage of the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief and Consumer Protection Act (S. 2155) and protecting the industry's tax-exempt status during tax reform. Berger also discussed these efforts in a recently published op-ed in Credit Union Times.

In other conference activities Tuesday, attendees participated in the Defense Credit Union Summit and a pre-conference workshop led by Demangone. The Annual Conference general sessions kick off today with a live-streamed welcome address by Berger.

More information on the Annual Conference and the Solutions Expo, which runs through Friday, is available online and on Twitter (hashtag #NAFCUAnnual).