Steve Stivers: “I would like to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding me time. I would also like to thank my fellow Ohioan…”

“I would like to thank the gentleman from New Jersey for yielding me time. I would also like to thank my fellow Ohioan, Ms. Fudge, for her hard work and support on this bill, and I would like to thank Ms. Moore from Wisconsin for her hard work as I recognize that she improved the bill. I would also like to thank the chairs and ranking members of the Financial Services and Agriculture Committees and their staffs for their hard work on this bill. Mr. Speaker, this is bipartisan legislation that clarifies the Dodd- Frank Financial Reform Act by recognizing that there is an important distinction between inter-affiliate swaps and market-facing swaps. While market-facing swaps carry risk, inter-affiliate swaps do not. They're simply an accounting practice used within corporate families to assign the ownership of derivatives inside the corporate umbrella. Without providing this distinction, corporations using inter-affiliate swaps that manage their risk in a central way would be forced to pay up to three times for the way they do business. In fact, they would collateralize their derivatives against the market on one side and then on both sides of the inter-affiliate swap, so they would actually pay three times what you would pay if you didn't manage your risk in a centralized way. The irony of that is, in managing your risk in a centralized way, it actually provides better protection and allows for experts to manage your risk.…”