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The Clearing House Association, the advocacy arm of the commercial bank-owned Clearing House payments and settlement firm, has found more firepower for its policy efforts by hiring a former White House official to oversee regulatory affairs. Dan McCardell was the deputy public liaison director for the Bush White House who helped round up business community support for the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act as well as TARP. McCardell, most recently in a post at Harvard Law School, arrives at The Clearing House with a full slate of policy issues to tackle. They include lobbying to amend the Fed's proposed rules for capital planning at big banks, and backing patent reform measures aimed at curbing intellectual-property lawsuits against banks over payments and processing methods.