Quote from Trader666:
Bill Clinton signed the legislation into law.
Do your homework.
He had no choice but to sign it.
It was put into the "Fiscal Year 2001 Appropriations Act".
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h106-4577
It also passed the Congress without even a committee hearing or a recorded vote.
That Phil Gramm and his two buddies from Indiana ( Dick Luger and Pete Fitzgerald ) were pretty clever. Stuff the legislation that allowed CDS to "trade" under the desk and OTC without any regulation, clearing house, or exchange mechanism into the FY 2001 Appropriations Act. The legislation also allowed WTI crude to trade electronically over in London and Dubai ( via ICE ) without any CFTC regulation, transparency, position limits, etc.
How very clever.

