Claire Williams covers banking policy matters on Capitol Hill. She previously wrote about financial and economic policy for Morning Consult and earlier had stints at S&P Global and the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
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The Senate voted 68-30 to invoke cloture on the GENIUS Act, which aims to regulate stablecoins, including backing from all Republicans and 18 Democratic lawmakers.
June 11 -
The House Financial Services Committee passed a crypto oversight bill in a 32-19 vote, as well as several other bills bankers support, including one to curtail abusive trigger leads in mortgage lending, in a lengthy markup.
June 11 -
Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., filed for cloture and filled the amendment tree on the stablecoin bill, effectively closing the path for the credit card legislation offered by Sens. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., and Roger Marshall, R-Kan., that would address credit card swipe fees.
June 10 -
A forthcoming bill from Sens. Jim Banks, R-Ind., and Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., would allow the Federal Housing Finance Agency director to set limits on executive pay at the Federal Home Loan banks.
June 9 -
The Banking Committee's portion of the Senate budget bill would eliminate the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's ability to request funding from the Federal Reserve, a move that goes further than House Republicans' version of the bill.
June 6 -
The National Conference of State Legislatures asked that leading lawmakers strike a provision in the Senate stablecoin bill that they say would preempt state authority to bar state-chartered special purpose depository institutions from operating in their state.
June 5 -
The Senate voted to confirm Federal Reserve Gov. Michelle Bowman's nomination to be the vice chair for supervision at the central bank in a 48-46 party-line vote.
June 4 -
House lawmakers discussed the recently introduced market structure bill, with Democrats expressing concerns that the bill could enable banks to evade securities laws.
June 4 -
Elon Musk, formerly head of the Department of Government Efficiency, said he will officially leave the federal government after a short but tumultuous tenure. DOGE's actions at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau are being reviewed in federal court.
May 29 -
In a dramatic move, conservative hardliners blocked President Donald Trump's tax and spending bill, which would have included many measures favored by banks.
May 16
