CLARITY Act Delay? Ethics Deadlock Kills Senate’s Last 2026 Window

The US Senate has set aside the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act (H.R. 3633) ahead of its August recess, deprioritizing the 616-page merged legislative framework, released by Senate Republicans on July 22, 2026, as floor bandwidth narrows and an unresolved ethics provision continues to block bipartisan agreement. The bill, which cleared the House 294–134 on July 17, 2025, and advanced out of the Senate Banking Committee 15–9 on May 14, 2026, has sat on the Senate Legislative Calendar as Calendar No. 423 since June 1, 2026, without a scheduled vote on cloture. This is not simply a scheduling delay. It is a structural inflection point: the pre-August window was the last realistic gate for 2026 enactment, and missing it effectively resets comprehensive US digital asset market-structure legislation to the next Congress. Clarity Act News: How the Ethics Provision Collapsed the Coalition The July 22 merged text formally consolidated the Senate Banking Committee’s version with the Digital Commodity Intermediaries Act, which the Senate Agriculture Committee reported out on January 29, 2026, and added a dedicated government ethics title developed with the White House. That ethics title beca...