Lead Republican behind infrastructure bill negotiations supports crypto amend...

Lead Republican behind infrastructure bill negotiations supports crypto amend...

The senator's stance is somewhat surprising, given that he previously called the section on brokers in the proposed bill a “common-sense provision.” Senator Rob Portman, one of the lead Republican voices for negotiations over an infrastructure bill in the United States Senate, said he supports an amendment clarifying the intent of a cryptocurrency provision.In a tweet today, Portman encouraged his colleagues in the Senate to vote on an amendment proposed this week by Ron Wyden, Cynthia Lummis and Pat Toomey that suggests striking the definition of brokers in the infrastructure bill to no....


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