COMMODITY EXCHANGE ACT

Bills and resolutions

CFTC: clarify treatment of certain commodity futures contracts and financial instruments purchases relative to limits on excessisve speculation (see S. 1412), S7261 [8JY]

———ensure that all agreements, contracts, and transactions with respect to commodities are carried out on a regulated exchange (see S. 272), S598 [15JA]

———establish and regulate a market for the trading of greenhouse gases (see S. 1399), S7138 [6JY]

Government regulations: bring greater transparency and accountability to commodity markets (see H.R. 977), H1246 [11FE]

———require energy commodities to be traded only on regulated markets (see S. 221), S337 [13JA]

Power resources: prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy and agricultural commodities (see S. 447), S2322 [13FE]

Remarks in House

Government regulations: bring greater transparency and accountability to commodity markets, H14705-H14709 [10DE]

Power resources: prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy commodities, H6978 [18JN]

———provide for regulation of energy derivatives, H7644, H7647, H7668 [26JN]

Remarks in Senate

CFTC: ensure that all agreements, contracts, and transactions with respect to commodities are carried out on a regulated exchange (S. 272), S626 [15JA]

———establish and regulate a market for the trading of greenhouse gases (S. 1399), S7143 [6JY]

Government regulations: require energy commodities to be traded only on regulated markets (S. 221), S338 [13JA], S6759 [18JN]

Power resources: prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy and agricultural commodities (S. 447), S2336 [13FE]

———prevent excessive price speculation with respect to energy commodities, S6693 [17JN], S8235 [29JY], S9651 [22SE]

Securities: ensure that all agreements, contracts, and transactions with respect to commodities are carried out on a regulated exchange, S5485 [14MY]

Reports filed

Derivatives Markets Transparency and Accountability Act: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 977) (H. Rept. 111-385), H15508 [23DE]

Summaries

Prevent Excessive Speculation Act (S. 447), S2340 [13FE]

Texts of

S. 221, require energy commodities to be traded only on regulated markets, S339 [13JA]

S. 272, Derivatives Trading Integrity Act, S627 [15JA]

S. 447, Prevent Excessive Speculation Act, S2337-S2340 [13FE]

S. 1399, Carbon Market Oversight Act, S7144-S7149 [6JY]

Transcripts

Price of Oil—Historic Oil Prices Were Result of Financial Speculation From Wall Street and Not Supply and Demand: 60 Minutes (television program), S339-S341 [13JA]