Key U.S. Senator on Crypto Bill, Lummis, Negotiating Dicey Points With White House
A Republican U.S. senator who has been at the center of talks over the crypto market structure bill that’s the industry’s top policy priority, Senator Cynthia Lummis, said that the White House has resisted ethics language she hashed out with Democrats.
That’s left the Wyoming lawmaker as a go-between trying to satisfy Democratic colleagues in the bipartisan talks while convincing the White House to come along, she said Tuesday at the Blockchain Association’s policy summit in Washington. Still, she thinks the negotiators should reveal their working draft by the end of the week and formally mark it up next week.
Lummis said that she and Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego had come up with some language on ethics. While she wasn’t explicit…
