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The House of Representatives voted to pass H.R. 4413 , the Consumer Protection and End User Relief Act, which reauthorizes appropriations to the CFTC through 2018 and directs the CFTC to issue rules governing the cross-border regulation of derivatives transactions. The bill also: provides materially increased insolvency benefits for customers of failed FCMs, albeit by effectively subordinating all non-customer claims of an FCM to customer claims (section 102); includes new cost-benefit analyses and procedural requirements for the CFTC (section 203); requires the CFTC to submit, every five