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"img": "015703.jpg", "state_abbrev": "WI", "district": ""}, {"icpsr": 14710, "prob": 66, "vote": "Yea", "paired_flag": 0, "vote_modifier": "", "x": 0.322, "y": -0.34, "name": "SIMPSON, Alan Kooi", "seo_name": "alan-kooi-simpson", "party": "Republican Party", "party_short_name": "Republican", "party_code": 200, "img": "014710.jpg", "state_abbrev": "WY", "district": ""}, {"icpsr": 14511, "prob": 76, "vote": "Yea", "paired_flag": 0, "vote_modifier": "", "x": 0.575, "y": -0.388, "name": "WALLOP, Malcolm", "seo_name": "malcolm-wallop", "party": "Republican Party", "party_short_name": "Republican", "party_code": 200, "img": "014511.jpg", "state_abbrev": "WY", "district": ""}], "codes": {"Clausen": ["Government Management"], "Peltzman": ["Regulation Special Interest"], "Issue": ["Banking and Finance"]}, "dtl_desc": "(SENATE TABLED THE WIRTH MODIFIED AMENDMENT NO. 71, REQUIRING THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION AND THE COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION TO TAKE CERTAIN ACTIONS REGARDING INTERMARKET ISSUES.)", "question": "On the Motion to Table", "short_description": "HYBRID FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS AND REGULATION", "nay_count": 41, "congress": 102, "vote_question_text": "On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 71 to S. 207 (Futures Trading Practices Act of 1991)", "rollnumber": 44, "date": "1991-04-18", "vote_document_text": "To require the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to take certain actions regarding intermarket issues.", "nominate": {"pre": 0.341, "log_likelihood": -53.932, "classified": 0.724, "mid": [0.28, -0.512], "spread": [-0.058, -0.394], "need_pre_prob_update": 1, "geo_mean_probability": 0.577, "slope": -0.851405149133623, "intercept": -0.27360655824258556, "x": [10, -10], "y": [-8.787658049578814, 8.240444933093643]}, "chamber": "Senate", "vote_result": "Motion to Table Agreed to", "cg_summary": "Futures Trading Practices Act of 1991 -\nTitle I:  Commodity Futures Trading Commission; Funding and Personnel\n- Amends the Commodity Exchange Act to authorize FY 1992 through 1996 appropriations for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (Commission).\nAuthorizes the Commission to request eight additional Senior Executive Service positions.\nDirects the Commission to establish a service fee schedule. (Currently authority is discretionary.)  Establishes annual FY 1992 through 1996 aggregate fee limits.\nExcludes from coverage under such Act any deposit (as defined by the Federal Reserve Act and related regulations) offered by:  (1) an insured depository institution; (2) an insured credit union; or (3) a Federal or State branch or agency of a foreign bank.\nExcludes from coverage under such Act any loan:  (1) that is a consumer credit transaction subject to the Truth in Lending Act; (2) made by an insured depository institution or credit union; or (3) made by a foreign bank to a specified person or made by a Federal or State branch of a foreign bank.\nTitle II:  Futures Trading Practices - Subtitle A:  Floor Surveillance and Dual Trading\n- Requires every contract market to maintain a system to monitor trading to detect and deter violations of the Act relating to the making of trades and the execution of customer orders.  Requires any audit trail system that is part of such a monitoring system to capture transaction times independently, promptly, precisely, and completely, including a record of the time a customer order is received on the exchange floor and received and executed by the floor broker.\nAuthorizes audit trail exemptions for:  (1) small exchanges with demonstrated compliance; and (2) certain categories of customer orders.\nRequires biennial Commission assessments of each market's trade monitoring system.  Directs the Commission to issue deficiency orders requiring timely correction of any such system failing to meet standards. Requires suspension of dual trading, except under specified circumstances, on any market subject to such an order.  Bars the placing of oral orders except according to certain Commission rules.\nSubtitle B:  Broker Associations\n- Prohibits trading between floor traders or brokers and affiliated customers.   Requires disclosure of formal or informal business affiliations between floor brokers and traders.\nSubtitle C:  Governing Structure\n- Prescribes meaningful representation on exchange boards of brokerage firms, commodity producers and consumers, and floor traders and brokers.  Specifies diversity of membership that must prevail on major disciplinary panels.\nSubtitle D:  Floor Trader Registration\n- Requires floor trader registration.\nSubtitle E:  Penalties\n- Revises penalties for violations of the Act.  Makes Commission merchants liable to customers for any losses caused by the malfeasance of their chosen floor brokers.  Allows customers to sue floor brokers for punitive damages of up to double actual losses.\nAuthorizes the Commission to require customer restitution.\nIncreases penalties for violations under such Act.\nRepeals the requirement that the Commission consider financial circumstances when assessing a civil penalty.\nSuspends a person's registration and trading privilege for failure to pay a civil monetary penalty.\nAuthorizes the Commission to seek monetary penalties in civil court.\nMakes it a felony to provide false information to a contract market, board of trade, or futures association.\nApplies criminal penalties for willful and knowing violations of such Act.\nAuthorizes class action suits against registered persons if the Commission has issued final rules permitting such actions.\nDirects the Commission to make a study of Commission and contract market penalties and related industry guidelines.\nSubtitle F:  Assistance to Foreign Futures Authorities\n- Provides for cooperation with foreign futures authorities (as defined by this Act) with regard to:  (1) subpoena authority; (2) investigative assistance; (3) information disclosure and receipt; and (4) payment for necessary investigative expenses.\nSubtitle G:  General Provisions\n- Defines specified terms for purposes of such Act, including \"floor trader\" and \"foreign futures authority.\"\nAuthorizes the Commission to require futures commission merchants to provide information on the activities of affiliated persons (as defined by this Act) that are reasonably likely to affect the financial or operational conditions of such entities.  Sets forth:  (1) exemptions from such requirements; and (2) confidentiality provisions.\nRequires the Commission to publish any dissenting or separate opinions whenever it publishes any opinion, rule, or other official rule.\nRequires ethics training for new registrants.\nGrants the Commission authority to conduct limited undercover investigations where it has reason to believe that violations of the Act may be taking place and the Department of Justice has declined to do so.\nGrants the General Accounting Office (GAO) access to information maintained by self-regulatory organizations, subject to specified confidentiality requirements.\nRevises provisions regarding Commission registration authority.\nAuthorizes the Commission to suspend or modify the registration of a person charged with a felony that reflects on such person's fiduciary fitness.\nProhibits insider trading.\nDirects the Commission to:  (1) facilitate the development of computerized trading as an adjunct to the open out cry auction system; and (2) seek to remove any foreign trade barriers on the international use of electronic trading systems.\nDirects the Commission to consider agricultural interests in discharging its duties and functions under such Act.\nPermits futures associations to appeal certain Commission decisions.\nRequires each futures association to adopt telemarketing fraud disciplinary criteria, which shall include a prohibition on a person who has solicited a new account by telephone from entering any orders for such account for three days after the customer has signed the risk disclosure statement.\nProvides for nationwide service of process and venue in U.S. district courts.\nDirects GAO to study delivery points for agricultural commodity contracts.\nTitle III:  Intermarket Coordination\n- Requires any contract market in a stock index futures contract to file with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System any rule establishing or changing margin levels on stock index futures. Authorizes the Board to direct an exchange to adjust margin levels.\nAuthorizes the Commission to exempt any agreement, contract, or transaction from Commission requirements when in the public interest to do so if such agreement will:  (1) be between institutional participants; (2) be in connection with a line of business or for hedging risk management; and (3) not adversely affect the Commission or any contract market.\nStates that such Act shall not apply to a swap transaction entered into:  (1) for hedging or business-related risk management; and (2) where each party expects to make specified payments.\nEstablishes a function-based determination of whether or not a hybrid commodity instrument falls within Commission jurisdiction. States that there would be no Commission jurisdiction in the case of an instrument:  (1) deriving less than 50 percent of its value in commodity option, to the extent that it has commodity option elements; and (2) expected to have less than 50 percent of its change in value owing to movement in a commodity's specified price or in the terms and conditions of the transaction, to the extent that the instrument has futures contract elements.\nExcludes from such Act stock index participations approved for trading by the Securities and Exchange Commission by April 11, 1989, or pending approval on or prior to December 31, 1990.\nDirects the Commission to utilize existing authorities to facilitate the registration of certain persons associated with a broker or dealer for the purposes of marketing stock index futures products to the public.\nTitle IV:  Effective Date\n- Sets forth the effective date for this Act.", "cg_official_titles": ["A bill to amend the Commodity Exchange Act to authorize appropriations for and enhance the effectiveness of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, to curb abuses in the making of trades and the execution of orders at designated contract markets, to provide greater representation of the public interest in the governance of such contract markets, to enhance the integrity of the United States financial markets by providing for Federal oversight of margins on stock index futures, clarifying jurisdiction over innovative financial products and providing mechanisms for addressing intermarket issues, and for other purposes."], "congress_url": "http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.uscongress/legislation.102samdt71", "clerk_rollnumber": 44, "description": "To require the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to take certain actions regarding intermarket issues."}], "apitype": "Web 2019-10", "elapsedTime": 0.034}