The US Senate StableCOin Bill is on its way back to the last days of the floor debate, and the crypto industry’s lobbyists in Washington urge senators to focus on the task, even as other legislative efforts muscles for the debate.
If the bill clears these potential obstacles and passes this week, it first marks that a large piece of crypto legislation has cleared the Senate.
The Law on Guidance and Establishing National Innovation for US StableCeCons (Genius) Act is the Senate’s much-revised efforts to regulate issuers of stablecoinsde stable tokens generally based on the value of a US dollar, such as Tether’s
and Circle’s. The bill already cleared the Senate’s banking committee and a former floor priest test with greater Bipartisan support, although many democratic critics bound the efforts of concern over President Donald Trump’s personal crypto business interests.
“As the bill continues through the amendment process, we are calling for respectful legislators to remain engaged in its central goal: to give a targeted and comprehensive approach to stableecoin supervision,” said some of the top Washington -lobby groups in a joint statement Monday, signed by the leaders of the Blockchain Association, Crypto Council for Innovation, Defi Education Funds and Digital Digital Digital and Digital Digital Digital and Digital Digital Compber.
This marks a first political commitment from the New Blockchain Association CEO Summer Mersinger, who just left his commissioner post in Commodity Futures Trading Commission Friday.
Senate’s majority leader John Thune had said he would have thrown the final debate on the Genius Act open to changes and more than 50 of them were delivered. As is often done with legislation with momentum, legislators have locked in on the bill in the hope of letting their non -related efforts ride its coattails to victory. In this case, the senators behind the credit card competition, which aims to force more competition between card issuers, filed to add it as a change of stablecoin legislation.
Political analysts like Ian Katz at Capital Alpha Partners give the credit card initiative very low odds to be signed in the Law-10-15%, Katz said in a Monday research note. His company had a more optimistic view of the Genius law and set it on “a 60-65% chance of being allowed this year.”
While approval in this chamber of Congress represents the most difficult of all obstacles facing legislation, it would still need approval in the House of Representatives, which may have its own ideas on how to approach stableecoins.
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