I support the gentleman's amendment. I would point out that at the end of his amendment is an antievasion requirement which would allow the CFTC to watch for the kinds of things that the gentlewoman from California was worried about in which foreign markets might be involved and other things. So there are, structured in the Lucas amendment, protections to avoid a crafty, interaffiliate kind of circumstance that she was concerned about.
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