Resolution on banks, credit unions stalled

The Senate Rules Committee continues to hold a controversial but non-binding resolution asking Congress to tackle the ongoing war between banks and credit unions.

For the third meeting in a row, HJR1 was pulled away on Wednesday from a committee because of reluctance by the committee's chair to handle the resolution. This time, Sen. Carlene Walker, R-Cottonwood Heights, who chairs the Senate Workforce Services and Economic Development Committee and is a member of the Rules Committee, said she did not want it.

All members of the Rules Committee can utilize a "prerogative" to remove a bill from the assignment list without debate, which Sen. Dave Thomas, R-South Weber, did Wednesday with the resolution. Previously, the committee has decided against sending HJR1 to the Senate Business and Labor Committee because that committee's chair, Sen. Scott Jenkins, R-Plain City, did not want it.