On Dec. 11, the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) issued its annual report, as required by Title I of the Dodd-Frank Act. This year’s annual report is a shift from prior years, with Treasury Secretary Bessent focused now on how financial regulation can promote economic growth.
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House and Senate leaders finalized the 2026 legislative calendar, and once again we’re pleased to share with you the 2026 BakerHostetler Congressional Calendar. Click here to download your ready-to-print, one-page combination House and Senate calendar for 2026. Suitable for hanging on your wall all year long!
President Donald Trump last week issued an executive order to strengthen U.S. leadership in digital financial technology. The executive order creates the new President’s Working Group on Digital Asset Markets, provides regulatory clarity for digital assets and technologies, ends de-banking initiatives, protects blockchain development, prohibits a central bank digital currency, and promotes stablecoins.
This executive order,…
House and Senate leaders finalized the 2025 legislative calendar, and once again we’re pleased to share with you the 2025 BakerHostetler Congressional Calendar. Click here to download your ready-to-print, one-page combination House and Senate calendar for 2025. Suitable for hanging on your wall all year long!
A shrinking legislative calendar and the fallout from November’s election results – no matter which party gains the upper hand in the battle for control of Congress – are likely to doom lawmakers’ efforts to pass cryptocurrency legislation this year.
Still, the need for legal clarity in the industry and a new push from investors…
Yesterday afternoon, oral arguments were heard in Kalshi v. CFTC before a three-judge panel at the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The case also raises important questions about financial market innovation, the breadth of the CFTC’s jurisdiction and the congressional response to agency action. While there has not yet been a legislative…
The presidential campaign is in full swing, but attention will turn to Capitol Hill after Labor Day as Congress has one important task to accomplish before the November elections.
Funding for the government expires September 30. If Congress doesn’t pass fiscal 2025 spending – or a stopgap budget called a “continuing resolution” – the government…
Amid the brewing national debate among parents, educators and lawmakers over the effect of social media use and children, the Senate in July overwhelmingly approved legislation aimed at protecting kids online. But whether the House will debate and vote on the package is unclear, leaving the issue potentially in legislative limbo until 2025 when a…
The Senate isn’t likely to act quickly – or maybe at all – on legislation that aims to provide regulatory clarity for digital assets after the House approved the bill on a bipartisan vote in May. Backers of the Financial Innovation and Technology for the 21st Century Act say the measure would give the Commodity…
A House committee will vote May 15 on an updated version of the BIOSECURE Act, legislation that would block federal contracts to five Chinese biotechnology companies and other drugmakers with certain China-based companies in their supply chains.
If approved by the committee as expected, a vote by the full House is likely before the end…