{"id":206653,"date":"2026-07-30T21:37:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:37:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=206653"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:37:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:37:45","slug":"bitcoin-senator-cynthia-lummis-blasts-democrats-for-stalling-crypto-clarity-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/?p=206653","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bitcoin Senator\u2019 Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity Act"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2018Bitcoin Senator\u2019 Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity Act<\/a><\/p>\n

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Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has again attacked the Democrats for holding back the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Speaking on the Crypto in America podcast Thursday, Lummis said<\/a> that the bill could have been passed months ago but is unfairly being held back.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Lawmakers are hoping the Clarity Act gets passed before Congress departs for August recess. While the bill has been drafted bipartisanly, some Democrats are unhappy with the current version.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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JUST IN: Sen. Cynthia Lummis says a Senate vote is still on track before the August recess <\/p>\n

“Sen. Thune has kept a place for the CLARITY ACT on the agenda before the August recess\u2026and I believe he does intend to go through with it\u2026We will be moving forward.” pic.twitter.com\/FxVlbtgbNr<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) July 30, 2026<\/a>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe biggest obstacle is that the Democrats, in spite of having 11 months to work on this bill intensely, which we have done, still won\u2019t commit to voting for it, and that that is the bigger challenge,\u201d Lummis said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we started working with [the Democrats] last Labor Day, the Clarity Act was about 300 pages \u2014 it\u2019s getting closer to 700 pages. Most of those new pages were added at the requests of Democrats.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cThis messing around, this pussyfooting around with, I want to change this, no, I want to change it back, I like the House version, no, let\u2019s go with the Senate version, and then bringing last minute changes to this bill that could have been brought weeks ago \u2014 in fact, months ago \u2014 is absurd, and I\u2019m just tired of being played.\u201d<\/p>\n

Major financial institutions, lawmakers and companies have thrown their weight behind the new bill, but a group of Democrats last week said<\/a> in a statement that the bill in its current form falls short.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Still, Lummis added that while lawmakers had a lot to vote on before the August recess, there was still a chance the bill could fit into a slot.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite being passed in the house of representatives last year with strong bipartisan support, the Clarity Act has been in a deadlock for much of 2026, partially the banking lobby raised concerns over stablecoin yield.\u00a0<\/p>\n

An updated bill of the Clarity Act was introduced last week that addressed ethics concerns \u2014 banning government officials and their families from issuing or promoting crypto.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Republicans are hoping to gain bipartisan support for the bill this week to advance the legislation. If passed, the long-awaited bill would create a regulatory framework for the cryptocurrency market.<\/p>\n

Trump ally Lummis is one of the most pro-crypto senators on Capitol Hill, even earning the name \u201cBitcoin Senator.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Republican helped draft the Bitcoin Act for a Bitcoin strategic reserve, and co-sponsored the 2025\u2019s GENIUS Act to regulate stablecoins.<\/p>\n

This post \u2018Bitcoin Senator\u2019 Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity Act<\/a> first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by Mathew Di Salvo<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin Magazine \u2018Bitcoin Senator\u2019 Cynthia Lummis Blasts Democrats For Stalling Crypto Clarity Act Republican Senator Cynthia Lummis has again attacked the Democrats for holding back the long-awaited crypto Clarity Act.\u00a0 Speaking on the Crypto in America podcast Thursday, Lummis said that the bill could have been passed months ago but is unfairly being held back.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":206654,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/206654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycryptomania.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}