U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry believes that Congress can pass a stablecoin regulation law before his retirement, despite the political climate and previous failures. He expressed his optimism at a Bitcoin Policy Institute event in Washington.
U.S. Rep. Patrick McHenry is sticking to his guns that Congress can produce a stablecoin regulation law before he retires at the end of the year, despite a volatile political climate and the failure of the full U.S. House to vote on a bill his House Financial Services Committee passed previously.
"I think we can get our stablecoin policy set through and signed into law," McHenry said Tuesday at a Bitcoin Policy Institute event in Washington."That will be the first sign that there is hope and that there is bipartisanship when it comes to this world of digital assets." While individual U.S. senators have produced legislation that would address stablecoins – the tokens pegged to steady assets such as the dollar – the Senate Banking Committee hasn't yet taken any of it up. Both chambers would need to pass a bill that President Joe Biden would then be willing to sign.
McHenry has been negotiating stablecoin legislation with members of his party and House Democrats for months, and when a bill cleared his committee, it did so with the support of several Democrats. But there has been some resistance from the administration and from the panel's top Democrat, Rep. Maxine Waters , about the role of the federal government in overseeing stablecoin issuers.
Lawmakers have long seen this corner of the crypto sector as the easiest to establish regulation over, but predictions of pending legislative success have often been stymied by the realities of a chaotic, closely divided Congress.in a variety of blockchain and digital asset businesses and significant holdings of digital assets, including bitcoin. CoinDesk operates as an independent subsidiary with an editorial committee to protect journalistic independence.
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