Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) spoke at ICBA's 2019 Capital Summit earlier this year. Checks & Balances By Aaron Stetter, ICBA Telling the community bank story on Capitol Hill ICBA's 2019 Capital Summit raised awareness of key issues for the industry. very community banker has a story to tell, and lawmakers want to hear it. That's the takeaway from ICBA's successful 2019 Capital Summit-and it should carry community bankers forward this summer as lawmakers return to their districts for August recess. Over four spring days, community bankers grabbed the attention of Congress and policymakers with more than 320 advocacy meetings with E House and Senate lawmakers and staff , speeches from banking's most infl uential lawmakers, the introduction of a Senate bill to enhance community bank access to capital, and the opportunity to testify before Congress. Aaron Stetter Bridging the partisan divide In a demonstration of ICBA's bipartisan association, Senate Banking Committee chairman Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and House Financial Services Committee chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) gave back-to-back Photos: Stephen Gosling (aaron.stetter@ icba.org) is ICBA's executive vice president, policy and political operations independentbanker.org Q 37http://www.independentbanker.org