They must have given it at least some thought, because from the start, they exempted municipal bonds. But there're tons of others, mostly traded by institutions. It's a very big market.
I don't remember whether there were any comments about bonds while the comment period was still open. If there were, I didn't read them.
But I think it'd be easy enough for the SEC simply to exempt them, as they did the munis.
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