The House on Wednesday finally mustered the votes to adopt a rule governing floor debate on cryptocurrency bills and the fiscal 2026 Defense spending bill, overcoming a two-day impasse that had halted the legislation but at the price of action being potentially pushed into next week for some of the bills.
Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., and Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., emerged from three hours of meetings with lawmakers late Wednesday to say they agreed to go ahead with a vote this week on a Senate stablecoin bill that House conservative Republicans disliked.
Johnson said the House could also vote Thursday on a bill that would ban a central bank digital currency and that a third digital asset market structure measure, but he added they could both also slip to next week. He said the language of the CBDC bill would become part of the National Defense Authorization Act.
