{"id":17743,"date":"2026-01-15T07:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:22:12","slug":"scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott delays Senate Banking crypto vote"},"content":{"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&rsquo;t yet been announced. The South Carolina Republican&rsquo;s move to punt a scheduled markup comes amid surprise new opposition from a leading crypto firm and uncertainty about the whip count on both sides of the aisle&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/14\/congress\/scott-delays-senate-banking-crypto-vote-00730162\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\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&rsquo;t yet been announced. The South Carolina Republican&rsquo;s 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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743","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=17743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}