{"id":17724,"date":"2026-01-15T02:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T02:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T02:32:11","slug":"scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott delays Senate Banking crypto vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Banking Chair <a href=\"https:\/\/directory.politicopro.com\/member\/151800\" data-person-id=\"151800\">Tim Scott<\/a> is abandoning plans to hold a vote Thursday on landmark cryptocurrency legislation, according to three people with knowledge of the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss plans that haven\u2019t yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina Republican\u2019s move to punt a scheduled markup comes amid <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/brian_armstrong\/status\/2011545247105355865?s=20\" target=\"_blank\">surprise new opposition<\/a> from a leading crypto firm and uncertainty about the whip count on both sides of the aisle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Banking Chair Tim Scott is abandoning plans to hold a vote Thursday on landmark cryptocurrency legislation, according to three people with knowledge of the matter who were granted anonymity to discuss plans that haven\u2019t yet been announced. The South Carolina Republican\u2019s move to punt a scheduled markup comes amid surprise new opposition from 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-17724","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\/17724","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=17724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17724\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}