[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 154 (2008), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14192]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      MEASURES READ THE FIRST TIME

  The following bill was read the first time:

       H.R. 6377. An act to direct the Commodity Futures Trading 
     Commission to utilize all its authority, including its 
     emergency powers, to curb immediately the role of excessive 
     speculation in any contract market within the jurisdiction 
     and control of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, on 
     or through which energy futures or swaps are traded, and to 
     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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