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• 6-25-2007
  Sean Cota testified before the (Part I) Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations hearing “Excessive Speculation in the Natural Gas Market, examining how trading by a single hedge fund, Amaranth LLC, led to high prices and extreme price volatility in natural gas market in 2006.”
  • Sean Cota’s testimony
  • Video

   

• 7-12-2007
  Craig Eerkes testified House Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities & Risk Management. About need to expand oversight responsibilities of CFTC to include ICE and OTC energy contracts.
  • Craig Eerkes' testimony

   

• 9-18-2007
  Sean Cota testifies before CFTC.
  • Sean Cota’s testimony

   

• 12-12-2007
  Sean Cota testifies before the House Energy Committee, Subcommittee on O&I hearing, “Energy Speculation: Is Greater Regulation Necessary to Stop Price Manipulation?”
  • Sean Cota’s testimony
  • Web site

2008

• 3-25-2008
  Testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Subcommitteeon Energy, Washington, DC
  • Gerry Ramm's testimony
  • Video

   

• 4-3-2008
  Sean Cota testified before Senate Energy Committee.
  • Sean Cota’s testimony
  • Video

   

• 5-15-2008
  Gerry Ramm of Inland Oil Company in Ephrata, WA, before the House Committee on Agriculture’s Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management. The purpose of the hearing is to review recent trading activity in the commodity futures markets and the relationship to higher fuel prices. PMAA believes the energy markets have disconnected from the physical fundamentals and futures market reforms are needed.
  • Gerry Ramm's testimony

   

• 6-3-2008
  Gerry Ramm of Inland Oil Company in Ephrata, WA, testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation. The Full Committee hearing on Energy Market Manipulation and Federal Enforcement Regimes examined energy market manipulation and the state of the oil and gas markets and their impact on consumers, as well as solicited testimony and discussion as to the key factors the Federal Trade Commission should incorporate into its upcoming rulemaking on its new responsibility to prevent manipulation in the wholesale oil and petroleum distillate markets.
  • Gerry Ramm's testimony
  • Video
  • Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation  
  • House Agriculture Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management

   

• 6-23-2008
  The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Investigations held a hearing to address whether excessive speculation is driving energy prices to record levels. ICPA Executive Director Gene Guilford testified before the subcommittee by offering a first-hand account of how skyrocketing energy prices are affecting petroleum marketers.
  • Gene Guilford’s testimony
  • Video
  • Web Site

   

• 7-11-2008
  Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee, United States House of Representatives, Washington, DC
  • Gerry Ramm's testimony

2009

• 02-03-09
  Testimony before the House Agriculture Committee; Regulating derivatives markets
  • Sean Cota's Testimony
     
• 03-25-09
  Testimony before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy.
  • Gerry Ramm's Testimony
  • Video
     
• 07-28-09
  Testimony before the CFTC July 28, 2009
  • Sean Cota Testimony (PDF)