3.0.0 3205 2019-11-15T21:44:46Z 2019-11-15T21:44:46Z Senate S S 2008-06-26 110 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2008-06-26T19:41:10Z 110 6377 HR 2008-07-08 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 864. Identical bill CRS 2008-06-26 ssaf00 Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. IntroReferral 2008-06-26 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress C000127 Sen. Cantwell, Maria [D-WA] Maria Cantwell D WA N Finance and Financial Sector Commodity Futures Trading Commission Energy Energy demand Energy prices Energy supplies Futures trading Government Operations and Politics Independent regulatory commissions Petroleum Swaps (Finance) Finance and Financial Sector

00 2008-06-26 Introduced in Senate 2008-09-12T23:16:10Z Energy Markets Emergency Act of 2008 - Directs the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to utilize all its authority, including its emergency powers, to: (1) curb immediately the role of excessive speculation in any contract market within its jurisdiction and control on or through which energy futures or swaps are traded; and (2) eliminate excessive speculation, price distortion, sudden or unreasonable fluctuations or unwarranted changes in prices, or other unlawful activity that is causing major market disturbances that prevent the market from accurately reflecting the forces of supply and demand for energy commodities.

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Short Titles as Introduced Display Title Official Title as Introduced Introduced in Senate 2008-06-26T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-110s3205is/xml/BILLS-110s3205is.xml 2008-06-26 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.