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House panel chair pledges to forgo pay during shutdown and says digital-assets framework has momentum
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Rep. French Hill said he will forgo his congressional pay while the shutdown lasts and described bipartisan Senate work on a "clarity" bill for digital assets, saying the House passed clarity with near-unanimous support (as stated in the interview).
Rep. French Hill said he would "go without pay" as long as the government shutdown continued and described recent progress on digital-assets legislation.
Asked about a letter requesting that his pay be withheld, Hill said, "I can't in good conscience receive a paycheck as a member of congress if we're not gonna pay our military and pay our civil servants that are doing the work of the American people." He said the decision was personal and intended to protest the continuation of the shutdown.
On digital assets, Hill said Congress had "made such progress on digital assets" and stated that the House had passed a bill called "clarity" with almost 300 votes in July (as stated in the interview). He named Sen. Tim Scott and Sen. Cynthia Lummis as Senate figures working on a bipartisan framework to pair with the House measure and to create a market framework that, he said, would support U.S. leadership in digital-assets innovation.
Hill described the objective as producing a legislative market framework that, when combined with the House bill, would advance the administration's goal of U.S. leadership in digital-asset markets. He characterized the work as bipartisan and ongoing; no Senate vote outcome was reported during the interview.
