Congressional Activity

This bill, introduced in 2019, would prohibit predispute arbitration agreements that force arbitration of future employment, consumer, antitrust, or civil rights disputes; and prohibit agreements ...

The CFTC may be temporarily closed due to the government shutdown but that isn’t stopping  President Trump from asking Congress to approve the Commission’s next ...

This is legislation that passed the House in 2018.

The Senate is being asked to confirm Heath Tarbert to be the next CFTC chairman after current Chairman J. Christopher Giancarlo’s term expires next year. ...

To require the Securities and Exchange Commission to revise the definitions of a ‘‘small business’’ and ‘‘small organization’’ for purposes of assessing the impact of ...

The Senate has confirmed President Trump’s choice to be the fifth SEC commissioner. Elad Roisman, once sworn in, would replace Republican Commissioner Michael Piwowar, who ...

With Senate confirmation Aug. 28 of two CFTC commissioner nominees, Dawn Stump and Dan Berkovitz need only to be sworn in to assume their new ...

With only days to go before the nation’s highest court rules in an IA enforcement case challenging the SEC’s use of administrative law judges, lawmakers ...

This legislation would prohibit securities fraud cases against public companies but being heard in state courts. These actions would be limited to federal courts.

No one questions that the number of OCIE exams of advisers is increasing, and even more may occur should SEC Chairman Jay Clayton coax more ...