Regulations

June 17, 2008 -- WASHINGTON, DC – United States Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Tom Harkin (D-IA) chaired a hearing today to investigate how excessive speculation in the oil market may be contributing to the historic run on oil and gas prices.

The hearing, held jointly before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, probed the Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s (CFTC) role in regulating the market and what tools and resources the agency needs to ensure it is able to be a robust market watchdog.    » read more »

Calls For Mandatory Rules

April 15, 2008 -- "These measures leave hedge funds in a regulatory black hole.

"This plan is one small step when giant strides are needed. The Treasury Department's proposals for greater transparency and risk disclosure must be mandatory or they are meaningless.

Skyscrapers: Photo by Michael Aston (CC)

"Non-binding best practices or voluntary guidelines are an imaginary fence -- and virtual farce: They stop nothing.    » read more »

“Managing congestion and traffic in order to maximize satisfaction for all customers is hardly detrimental to the public interest.”

2/13/2008, WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the marketplace for broadband Internet service expands and providers explore new mechanisms to enrich the Internet experience for consumers, new regulation that would restrict this experimentation will only slow innovation and harm consumers, the National Cable & Telecommunications Association (NCTA) said in comments filed with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today.    » read more »