COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
Amendments
Consumers: reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (H.R. 2289), H3940, H3948, H3949, H3950, H3951 [9JN]
Bills and resolutions
Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (see S. 1800), S5170 [16JY] (see S. 2129), S7123 [5OC] (see H.R. 3049), H5171 [14JY]
Appropriations: impose fees and assessments to recover the cost of appropriations to the Commission (see H.R. 2474), H3505 [20MY]
Consumers: reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (see H.R. 2289), H2956 [13MY]
——— reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (H.R. 2289), consideration (see H. Res. 288), H3756 [2JN]
Federal employees: prevent conflicts of interest by prohibiting bonuses from former private sector employers, increase lobbying prohibitions, and address associations between financial regulators and former clients or employers (see S. 1779), S5129 [15JY] (see H.R. 3065), H5235 [15JY]
Government regulations: specify how clearing requirements apply to certain affiliate transactions (see S. 876), S2040 [26MR] (see H.R. 1317), H1613 [4MR]
Investments: align exemptions for general solicitation of investment in commodity pools similar to the exemption provided for general solicitation of securities under the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (see H.R. 1954), H2416 [22AP]
——— provide end-users with time to meet margin requirements and repeal certain indemnification requirements for regulatory authorities to obtain access to swap data required by swaps entities (see S. 1560), S4103 [11JN]
Public utilities: provide equal treatment for utility special entities using utility operations-related swaps (see S. 1111), S2473 [28AP] (see H.R. 2041), H2495 [28AP]
Securities and Derivatives Commission: establish (see H.R. 1167), H1499 [27FE]
Letters
Commodity End-User Relief Act: Americans for Financial Reform (organization), H3778 [3JN]
——— Coalition for Derivatives End-Users, H3935 [9JN]
——— Dave McCurdy, American Gas Association, H3934 [9JN]
——— Dorothy Coleman, National Association of Manufacturers, H3933 [9JN]
——— Micah Hauptman and Barbara Roper, Consumer Federation of America, H3776 [3JN]
——— National Corn Growers Association and Natural Gas Supply Association, H3933 [9JN]
——— R. Bruce Josten, U.S. Chamber of Commerce, H3937 [9JN]
——— several production agriculture associations and agribusinesses, H3932 [9JN]
——— Thomas R. Kuhn, Edison Electric Institute, H3934 [9JN]
End user exemptions for certain derivative sales: Representative Conaway, Committee on Agriculture (House), H68 [7JA]
Remarks in House
Business and industry: provide status of consultations with U.S. producers and consumers of aluminum, H3950 [9JN]
Consumers: reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (H.R. 2289), H3932–H3952 [9JN], E878 [11JN]
——— reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (H.R. 2289), consideration (H. Res. 288), H3773–H3781 [3JN]
——— reauthorize to protect futures customers, make reforms to ensure transparency and accountability, and provide end users with market certainty and risk management to keep costs low (H.R. 2289), corrections in engrossment, H3999 [9JN]
Foreign trade: report on review of foreign board of trade applications of metal exchanges and status of negotiations with foreign regulators relative to aluminum warehousing, H3938 [9JN]
Government regulations: ensure certain interaffiliate transactions are not regulated as swaps, H345 [13JA]
——— specify how clearing requirements apply to certain affiliate transactions (H.R. 1317), H8219–H8221 [16NO]
Information technology: require a report of any plans of action and milestones to address any known information security vulnerabilities, H3951 [9JN]
Office of the Chief Economist: encourage employment applications from members of minority groups, women, disabled persons, and veterans, H3951 [9JN]
Securities: provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales, H67, H76 [7JA], H345 [13JA]
Remarks in Senate
Agriculture, rural development, FDA, and related agencies programs: making appropriations (S. 2129), S7127 [5OC], S7130 [6OC]
Securities: provide end user exemptions for certain derivative sales, S74–S77, S81–S85 [8JA]
Reports
End User Exemptions for Certain Derivative Sales: Committee on Agriculture (House) (excerpt), H68, H77–H79 [7JA], H352–H354 [13JA]
Reports filed
Agriculture, Rural Development, FDA, and Related Agencies Programs Appropriations: Committee on Appropriations (House) (H.R. 3049) (H. Rept. 114–205), H5171 [14JY]
——— Committee on Appropriations (Senate) (S. 1800) (S. Rept. 114–82), S5169 [16JY]
CFTC Specification of How Clearing Requirements Apply to Certain Affiliate Transactions: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 1317) (H. Rept. 114–311), H7188 [26OC]
——— Committee on Financial Services (House) (H.R. 1317) (H. Rept. 114–311), H8238 [16NO]
Commodity End-User Relief Act: Committee on Agriculture (House) (H.R. 2289) (H. Rept. 114–134), H3581 [29MY]
Consideration of H.R. 2289, Commodity End-User Relief Act: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 288) (H. Rept. 114–136), H3756 [2JN]
Statements
Commodity End-User Relief Act: Executive Office of the President, H3779 [3JN], H3935 [9JN]
Texts of
H. Res. 288, consideration of H.R. 2289, Commodity End-User Relief Act, H3773 [3JN]
H.R. 1317, CFTC specification of how clearing requirements apply to certain affiliate transactions, H8219 [16NO]