{"id":11341,"date":"2025-07-15T22:31:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-eyes-wednesday-re-vote-to-take-up-crypto-defense-spending-bills\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T22:31:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T22:31:50","slug":"johnson-eyes-wednesday-re-vote-to-take-up-crypto-defense-spending-bills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/johnson-eyes-wednesday-re-vote-to-take-up-crypto-defense-spending-bills\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnson eyes Wednesday re-vote to take up crypto, Defense spending bills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/242539\" data-person-id=\"242539\">Mike Johnson<\/a> said he hopes to try again Wednesday on a procedural vote that would allow the House to take up a slate of cryptocurrency bills after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2025\/07\/15\/congress\/house-hardliners-tank-procedural-vote-for-crypto-defense-bills-00454418\" target=\"_blank\">GOP hard-liners tanked the measure<\/a> Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans are \u201cstill having conversations, answering questions for people,\u201d Johnson told reporters leaving the Capitol.<\/p>\n<p>Asked how he might win over conservative holdouts, the Louisiana Republican said \u201cit\u2019s a priority of the White House, the Senate and the House to do all of these crypto bills.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>House conservatives are calling on GOP leaders to amend a Senate-passed bill to regulate so-called stablecoins or package it with two other digital assets bills that were slated for floor votes this week in a bid to force the Senate to take all of them up together.<\/p>\n<p>But Johnson said leaving the Capitol Tuesday that \u201cwe have to do them in succession,\u201d suggesting that GOP leaders won\u2019t seek to directly link the bills in one package.<\/p>\n<p>A combined package that ties the Senate\u2019s stablecoin legislation with the two other bills \u2014 a sweeping crypto market structure bill and a third measure that would ban a central bank digital currency \u2014 would likely be dead on arrival in the upper chamber.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot stuff these into one package,\u201d one senior House Republican said, noting that it would trigger a host of issues.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Mike Johnson said he hopes to try again Wednesday on a procedural vote that would allow the House to take up a slate of cryptocurrency bills after GOP hard-liners tanked the measure Tuesday afternoon. Republicans are \u201cstill having conversations, answering questions for people,\u201d Johnson told reporters leaving the Capitol. Asked how he might win [&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-11341","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\/11341","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=11341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}