{"id":10092,"date":"2025-06-09T20:46:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-to-pass-stablecoin-bill-this-week\/"},"modified":"2025-06-09T20:46:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-09T20:46:42","slug":"thune-hopes-to-pass-stablecoin-bill-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/thune-hopes-to-pass-stablecoin-bill-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Thune hopes to pass stablecoin bill this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Republicans are aiming to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would create new rules for dollar-pegged digital tokens this week, Majority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/51242\" data-person-id=\"51242\">John Thune<\/a> said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe&#8217;re trying to figure out if there&#8217;s still a path forward on amendments, but the goal is to have it across the floor\u201d this week, Thune said in a brief interview.<\/p>\n<p>Thune filed cloture on the bill on Monday, teeing it up for another procedural vote as soon as Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>GOP leaders have been seeking to strike a deal on amendments that would allow them to proceed more quickly to a vote on final passage. But they have been unable to come to an agreement thus far, in large part due to a push by Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/259544\" data-person-id=\"259544\">Roger Marshall<\/a> (R-Kan.) to force a vote on controversial legislation that aims to crack down on credit card swipe fees.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Republicans are aiming to pass landmark cryptocurrency legislation that would create new rules for dollar-pegged digital tokens this week, Majority Leader John Thune said Monday. \u201cWe&#8217;re trying to figure out if there&#8217;s still a path forward on amendments, but the goal is to have it across the floor\u201d this week, Thune said in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}