Agriculture Committee Continues Review of Commodity Exchange Act Legislation
Washington, DC,
July 11, 2008
“The last three days have demonstrated that any change in the regulation of commodity futures markets should be thoughtful and deliberate,” said Agriculture Committee Chairman Collin C. Peterson of "The hearings this week have provided this Committee with a lot of information--some of it contradictory--about the factors at work in the futures market and will help us determine what legislative activity, if any, would have any positive or immediate impact on high energy prices and not do more harm than good," said Committee Ranking Republican Bob Goodlatte. Congressional oversight of commodity futures trading is under the jurisdiction of the House Agriculture Committee, chaired by Congressman Peterson. The Farm Bill, enacted into law earlier this month over the President’s veto, reauthorizes the chief regulator of these markets, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, through 2013. A full transcript of the hearing will be posted on the Committee website at a later date. WITNESS LISTS Thursday, July 10 Panel I Mr. Greg Zerzan, Counsel and Head of Global Public Policy, International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Mr. Charles A. Vice, President and Chief Operating Officer, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE), Atlanta, Georgia Mr. Michael Comstock, Acting Director, City of Mesa, Arizona Gas System, on behalf of the American Public Gas Association (APGA), Mesa, Arizona Dr. Michael Greenberger, Dr. Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, Director, Global Energy Management Institute, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Panel II Ms. Robin Diamonte, Chief Investment Officer, United Technologies Corporation, on behalf of the Committee on the Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA), Hartford, Connecticut Dr. Scott H. Irwin, Professor, Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Mr. Paul N. Cicio, President, Industrial Energy Consumers of Mr. Jeffrey D. Korzenik, Chief Investment Officer, Vitale, Caturano & Company, Dr. Craig Pirrong, Professor of Finance, Director, Global Energy Management Institute, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston, Houston, Texas Panel III Dr. James E. Newsome, President and Ms. Christine M. Cochran, Vice President, Government Relations, Commodity Markets Council (CMC), Washington, D.C. Mr. Joseph T. Nicosia, President, American Cotton Shippers Association, Mr. Adam K. White, Director of Research, White Knight Research and Trading, Alpharetta, Friday, July 11 Mr. Mark Young, Futures Industry Association, Mr. David Peniket, President and COO, ICE Futures Europe, Mr. Gerry Ramm, Inland Oil Company, on behalf of Petroleum Marketers Association of America, Ephrata, Washington, D.C. Mr. Michael Greenberger, Panel II Mr. Terrence A. Duffy, Executive Chairman, CME Group, Mr. Kendell Keith, President, National Grain and Feed Association, Mr. John Johnston, Independent Trader, Panel III Mr. Tim Lynch, Senior Vice President, American Trucking Association, Mr. Daniel J. Roth, President and CEO, National Futures Association, Mr. Tyson Slocum, Director, Public Citizen’s Energy Program, Captain John Prater, President, Airline Pilots Association, International, http://republicans-agriculture.house.gov ### |