CLARITY Act may be heading for lame duck after House Republicans slash the calendar

House Republicans have erased most of the remaining pre-election runway for the CLARITY Act despite mounting pressure to pass it.House Republican leaders canceled votes for the weeks of Sept. 21 and Sept. 28, moving the chamber’s departure to Sept. 17 from Oct. 1. The House is scheduled to return Sept. 14 for four voting days before leaving Washington until after the November midterms.That creates an immediate problem for the crypto market-structure bill. The Senate’s first major procedural vote is scheduled for Sept. 15, only two days before the House leaves.Galaxy Digital Head of Research Alex Thorn said the change makes passage before the midterms “extremely unlikely.” The Senate still has roughly three weeks of session stretching into early October, but any version it passes must ultimately match the legislation approved by the House before it can reach President Donald Trump.The House passed CLARITY 294-134 in July 2025. The Senate has since worked on amended language, meaning a Senate victory alone may not finish the job.Punchbowl News reporter Brendan Pedersen said senators could potentially work through the required procedure in about a week and a half if everything went sm...