On March 20^th, Senate Banking Chairman Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Ranking Member Sherrod Brown (D-OH) issued a public request for legislative proposals to foster economic growth. Responses, which had to be substantive, explain the impact on the economy and consumers, and include legislative language, were due on April 14^th.  Responding to the request, the LSTA submitted this comment letter that explained the role of CLOs in providing nearly $450 billion of financing to companies that employ more than 7 million people in the U.S.  The letter discussed the Dodd-Frank Act, and how the final rule applied risk retention to the managers of Open Market CLOs, even though i) these are not the originate-to-distribute securitizations Dodd-Frank targeted and ii) CLO managers don’t own the assets being securitized (unlike originate to distribute securitizations) and therefore actually have to buy notes in order to “retain” them. Furthermore, we observed that in the horizontal retention option, the final rule required far more than the 5% credit risk retention that the Dodd-Frank Act mandated.