A Plan for Prosperity

About 1,000 community bankers and industry allies will gather in Washington this month to lobby lawmakers during the 2013 ICBA Washington Policy Summit. The April 24-April 25 fly-in gives community bankers nationwide an ideal opportunity to press their congressional representatives and regulators on ICBA's Plan for Prosperity regulatory-relief platform. The Plan for Prosperity (PFP) is ICBA's newly launched policy platform to enact regulatory relief for the nation's community banks and thrifts in the 113th Congress. Rather than promote a massive, single bill, the plan sets forth a set of flexible legislative priorities that will draw the most bipartisan support in Congress to drive through the demanding legislative process. ICBA will continue working with lawmakers, community bankers and its affiliated state and regional community banking associations to push these PFP proposals through Congress. However, community bankers' grassroots advocacy is the key to success.