Morning Edition · Wednesday, August 5, 2026Published at 1:31 AM EDT · New York
Senate Crypto Market-Structure Bill Stays Off the Floor Plan as Recess Approaches
Senators Elizabeth Warren and Richard Blumenthal asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to investigate the president's memecoin, hardening the ethics objection that Republicans blame for the delay.
The Clarity Act, the bill that would divide United States oversight of digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), is still not scheduled for floor action. Senator…
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Crypto Market-Structure Bill Stalls in the Senate
Ethics disputes over the president's personal crypto ventures keep displacing the substance of United States market-structure legislation, leaving digital-asset rules dependent on agency discretion rather than statute.
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