The CLARITY Act won't hit the Senate floor before lawmakers scatter for August recess on the 10th. No time slot appears on Monday's schedule, and even if leadership moves fast, the math barely works.
A Wednesday cloture filing would allow only a Friday procedural vote, not final passage. That procedural motion would just decide whether debate should happen at all. Then senators get up to 30 hours to talk it over. The recess deadline makes it nearly impossible to close that gap without unanimous consent, which requires every senator to cooperate and zero major objections.
Prediction markets smell trouble. Odds for the bill passing dropped to around 33%, near yearly lows, as the window collapsed. Anthony Scaramucci aired frustration openly, accusing Republicans of deliberately stalling to blame Democrats later and shake donations from crypto donors come fall.
Industry figures are watching closely because the bill's version still hasn't been locked down. Lawmakers could push the House-passed H.R. 3633 or use revised Senate text instead. That uncertainty alone makes scheduling harder. If Congress fails to act, Bernstein analysts expect the SEC and CFTC to accelerate their own rulemaking instead, potentially creating a patchier regulatory landscape than the industry prefers.
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