Lummis says the current crypto regulatory framework 'is not working' as the Senate faces an August 8 recess deadline. Odds of passage have fallen to 30% from 80% in February.
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Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) told colleagues the current U.S. regulatory framework for digital assets “is not working” for the industry, consumers, or law enforcement, pressing the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before the August recess.
Lummis made her case on the Senate floor earlier today, arguing the patchwork of existing rules fails everyone it touches: companies building in the space, holders, and the agencies meant to police fraud. She told reporters she plans to keep speaking on the bill as the calendar runs down.
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, formally H.R. 3633, would split oversight of digital assets between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Lummis has separately warned that the bill's current momentum “will not come around again this decade,” noting further delays would mean the legislation dies for the year.
She has also cast the standoff in concrete terms, telling colleagues that a prolonged pushback could leave crypto custody rules exposed just as the industry scales further into mainstream finance.
The Senate is set to begin its August recess on August 8. Majority Leader John Thune has not yet allocated floor time for the bill. If lawmakers fail to act before then, debate would not resume until September, cutting further into the shrinking legislative window before the midterm elections.
That timeline pressure has shown up in prediction markets. Platforms now put the odds of CLARITY becoming law in 2026 at roughly 30%, down sharply from above 80% in February. The bill needs 60 votes to clear the Senate floor. Republicans control 53 seats, meaning at least seven Democrats must cross over for passage, a bar that has proven difficult given unresolved objections from within the Democratic caucus.
Beyond the ethics provisions governing federal officials' crypto holdings, which Senate negotiators have been working separately to resolve, opponents have raised concerns about how the bill treats decentralized finance protocols and whether its consumer-protection language goes far enough. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has argued the bill would weaken oversight enough to threaten the broader financial system, a position she has repeated since the committee vote in May.
Crypto industry groups have pushed back hard on the delay. More than 200 organizations, including Coinbase, Ripple, Kraken and Circle, urged Senate leaders to bring the bill to the floor, arguing that continued uncertainty pushes innovation and jobs offshore while leaving U.S. consumers without clear protections.
Lummis has tied the urgency directly to consumer safeguards, arguing the bill's custody and disclosure requirements are needed precisely because existing law leaves gaps that bad actors can exploit.
With floor time still unscheduled and the recess deadline days away, the bill's fate now rests on whether Thune carves out time this week or lets it slide into the fall session. A September restart would keep CLARITY alive but push any final vote closer to the midterm campaign season, when legislative bandwidth typically shrinks further.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent sharply defended the bill, rejecting claims that it weakens consumer protections and urging the Senate to pass it before the break. He called the current regulatory vacuum the real threat to investors.
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