Last week the first swap transactions were required to be cleared at central clearinghouses to decrease systemic risk in the swap markets under Dodd-Frank. However, there are a number of provisions yet to be settled. There are now seven proposals before the House Agriculture Committee that provide changes to Dodd-Frank. At a hearing on Thursday, the committee heard testimony about these issues, including the swaps push-out rule.The swaps push-out rule prohibits any federal assistance from being provided to "swaps entities," including registered swap dealers, security-based swap dealers, major swap participants and major security-based swap participants. Federal assistance is defined to include Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)...