CLARITY Act's runway gets even shorter

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Clarity Act faces fresh delay as Senate

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prioritizes Russia sanctions bill. So

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Thoon has decided the Senate calendar

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and the Clarity Act is not on it for

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this week, meaning that next week will

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be the last chance before the recess for

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the United States Senate to pass the

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Clarity Act. Now, I was skiing recently

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in Cororche because I'm fancy in France

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in December. I don't know if you guys

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have ever seen this, but it's the

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shortest runway in the world. It's like

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Hunger Games for really rich people.

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They come in, they decide whether

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they're going to live or die, and they

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divert, they come back. Shortest runway

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in the world has a hill literally to

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stop your plane and to get it going

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faster. Well, the United States

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government, the Senate is trying to land

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a 747 on this thing right now. That was

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a way of me saying there's a really

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short runway to get the Clarity Act

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done. I would say that the odds are

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still extremely low. We haven't even

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gotten an agreement on ethics language.

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I just think it's so funny. I mean, the

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Clarity Act here survived stable coin

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yield, government ethics, partisan

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warfare, and outf faces its most

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dangerous opponent.

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The Clarity Act faces significant legislative delays in the U.S. Senate as priority is shifted to a Russia sanctions bill, leaving a very narrow window before the recess. The speaker uses the analogy of a dangerous, short runway in Courchevel to illustrate the difficulty of passing the bill, noting that critical issues like ethics language remain unresolved, making the odds of success extremely low.