Tag: congressional
Prediction Market Kalshi Sues U.S. CFTC for Denying Its Contracts for Congressional Elections
When the CFTC denied the application earlier this year, Commissioner Summer Mersinger dissented, arguing, "It is important for the commission to make [...]
GAO finds controversial SEC guidance is subject to congressional oversight
United States Senator Cynthia Lummis has scored another one for crypto with a Government Accountability Office (GAO) decision issued on Oct. 31. The G [...]
Alabama Is Ordered to Use Congressional Map That Likely Flips Seat to Democrats
The new voting map is a remedy to Alabama’s illegal dilution of Black voting power and could lead the state to elect two Black representatives for the [...]
Senate Delegation to Travel to China During Congressional Recess
The trip comes at a time of heightened tensions between Beijing and Washington, as the Biden administration restricts investments in key Chinese secto [...]
SEC’s Gensler Throws Crypto Punches, Dodges Bitcoin ETF Query in Congressional Hearing
Much of the hearing focused on non-crypto issues, including a looming shutdown of the federal government and whether the SEC is focusing too much on c [...]
Dueling CBDC Bills Heading for U.S. Digital Dollar Debate in Congressional Hearing
“If not designed to be open, permissionless, and private – emulating cash – a government-issued CBDC is nothing more than a CCP-style surveillance too [...]
Alabama Asks Supreme Court to Revisit Dispute Over Congressional Map
Alabama filed an emergency application in the Supreme Court on Monday evening, asking the justices to keep in place for now a congressional map that a [...]
Federal Court Again Strikes Down Alabama’s Congressional Map
A panel of federal judges rejected Alabama’s latest congressional map on Tuesday, ruling that a new map needed to be drawn because Republican lawmaker [...]
Florida’s Congressional Map Illegally Hurt Black Voters, Judge Rules
Background: The new map divided one district into four, each with a much smaller Black population.At issue in the ruling was an area previously mapped [...]
Ronaldinho denies part in alleged $61M crypto scam at congressional hearing
Retired pro soccer star Ronaldinho Gaúcho has testified at a congressional hearing in Brazil, denying his involvement in an alleged $61 million crypto [...]
Why Alabama’s Congressional Maps May Need to Be Redrawn, Again
Alabama’s congressional map has been in limbo since June, when the Supreme Court ruled that the State Legislature had drawn it in a way that violated [...]
Crypto bills pass congressional committee in ‘huge win’ for US crypto
A key United States House panel has approved a pair of bills that will be key to developing a regulatory framework for cryptocurrencies, that will red [...]
Alabama Lawmakers Decline to Create New Majority-Black Congressional District
Alabama Republicans pushed through a new congressional map on Friday that will test the bounds of a judicial mandate to create a second majority-Black [...]
CFTC Kicks Off Review of Prediction Market Kalshi’s Congressional Control Betting Contracts
"The Commission should treat Kalshi’s certification in the same manner it treats all DCM certifications of new products, and then do what Congress pro [...]
Connolly Attack Raises Concern About Congressional District Office Security
“We decided that for walk-ins — that would be constituents who haven’t made a prior appointment with us — we’re just going to try our best to conduct [...]