
“With Gary Gensler confined to the waste bin of Washington, we have an excellent opportunity to ensure that the future of digital assets is guided by Americans,” said Emmer.
United States Representative Tom Emmer has been appointed vice chairman of the House Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Artificial Intelligence.
“With President Trump in the White House, and Gary Gensler confined to the waste bin of Washington, we have an excellent opportunity to ensure that the future of digital assets is guided by Americans, with American values,” the Minnesota Republican said on X on Jan. 15.
The House Financial Services Committee’s Subcommittee vice chairs and subcommittee assignments for the 119th Congress were announced by Committee Chairman French Hill on Jan. 14.
Only a Donald Trump election victory and a mostly Republican Congress could make Chevron potentially impactful, says Representative Tom Emmer.
The crypto industry won’t benefit from an overturned legal doctrine that forced courts to use federal agency interpretations of ambiguous laws unless Congress passes legislation limiting what those agencies can regulate, says United States Representative Tom Emmer.
“I don’t think Chevron deference changes a whole lot,” Emmer told Cointelegraph at the Permissionless conference in Utah on Oct. 9.
The Supreme Court overruled the Chevron doctrine in June — meaning that US courts no longer need to “defer” to federal agencies like the Securities and Exchange Commission when interpreting ambiguous statutes.
SEC Chair Gary Gensler faced criticism from lawmakers and agency members during a House Financial Services Committee hearing over his handling of crypto regulation in the United States.
United States Congressman Tom Emmer slammed SEC Chair Gary Gensler during a congressional hearing, calling him the most “destructive” and “lawless” Chair in the regulator’s 90-year history.
“You’ve made up the term crypto asset security. This term is nowhere to be found in statute, you made it up [and] you never provided any interpretive guidance on how crypto asset security might be defined within the walls of your SEC,” Emmer told Gensler before a House Financial Services Committee hearing on Sept. 24.
Emmer said the term had served as the entire basis for Gensler’s “enforcement crusade” against the crypto industry for the last three years. This was up until last week when SEC lawyers retracted the term in a court footnote.
US Representatives Tom Emmer and Patrick McHenry gave Gary Gensler until the end of the month to answer questions about the SEC’s approach to crypto airdrops.
Two Republican lawmakers are demanding United States Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler answer questions about the classification of crypto airdrops by the end of the month.
Representative Tom Emmer and House Financial Services Committee Chairman Patrick McHenry said in a Sept. 17 letter to Gensler that they’re concerned after the SEC made “assertions about airdrops” in various lawsuits over the last two years.
In September 2022, the SEC sued Hydrogen Technology Corporation and its former CEO for market manipulation of what it called “crypto asset securities.”