[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 190 (Friday, December 20, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7345-S7346]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3361. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
by him to the bill H.R. 82, to amend title

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II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government pension offset 
and windfall elimination provisions; which was ordered to lie on the 
table; as follows:

       At the appropriate place, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. PROHIBITION ON POLITICAL ELECTION OR CONTEST 
                   AGREEMENTS, CONTRACTS, TRANSACTIONS, AND SWAPS.

       Section 5c(c)(5) of the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. 
     7a-2(c)(5)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
       ``(D) Prohibition relating to political elections or 
     contests.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this 
     section, no agreement, contract, transaction, or swap 
     involving any political election or any other political 
     contest (or any index, measure, value, or data related 
     thereto, or occurrence, extent of an occurrence, or 
     contingency based thereon) may be listed or made available 
     for clearing or trading on or through a registered entity.''.
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