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Administration crypto adviser named as attending the White House meeting.
No evidence-backed relationships are recorded.
A September 15 cloture vote needs 60 votes, and only 14 working days remain before the October recess. The SEC is drafting a token exemption in the meantime.
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The Senate's 49-50 procedural vote left the securities-versus-commodities test where it already was, with the SEC and CFTC free to keep writing rules under existing powers and those rules open to court challenge.
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The Senate voted 50-49 against the Clarity Act on September 15, so the federal digital-asset framework stays unwritten. The fight that sank it was over ethics language tied to the president's own crypto holdings.
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Ahead of Tuesday's cloture vote the White House is answering bank lobbyists with a scenario tool, while Fairshake's $30 million to Democrats is already spent and Republicans including John Cornyn weigh a no.
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Patrick Witt wants Democrats on the market structure bill by Sept. 15, and the fallback he describes if they refuse is rulemaking bounded by the authority the SEC and CFTC already have, an approach that depends on agency leadership the White House has not yet named.
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Regulation Crypto Assets pairs two offering exemptions with a way out of the investment-contract test. The White House lunch the next day was the political weather, not the rule.
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