Senator Cynthia Lummis said efforts to pass the CLARITY Act will continue after the Senate delayed a vote on the bill until September, casting the setback as a reason to press on rather than retreat. In an August 7 post on X, Lummis said she was frustrated after a long and difficult effort to advance the measure, but insisted that lawmakers had come too far to quit now. She said the digital-asset industry deserves to be able to grow in the United States under clear rules, that consumers should be protected from scams and have confidence to participate in the digital economy, and that law enforcement should have the tools needed to hold bad actors accountable. As chair of the Senate Banking Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Lummis has been a central Senate advocate for the bill. Senate Majority Leader John Thune confirmed on August 7 that the chamber would delay a vote until September after the August recess, despite Lummis having said two days earlier that senators were expected to stay in Washington through the weekend in hopes of securing a vote. The legislation, H.R. 3633, was advanced by the Senate Banking Committee on May 14 by a 15-9 vote after months of negotiations that Lummis said produced more than 300 pages of Democratic-requested changes, with talks continuing over Commodity Futures Trading Commission provisions, law enforcement measures and ethics rules for senior federal officials. Lummis called the CLARITY Act the only path to achieving those goals and said she would keep working with colleagues because "this fight is far from over."