The Consumer Technology Association, the industry group that represents more than 1,200 technology companies including Amazon, Apple and Google, urged the Senate to bring the CLARITY Act to the floor without delay. Senator Cynthia Lummis followed the next morning with an on-record statement that the bill would end the "absurdity" of software developers needing lawyers to know whether shipping code is a crime.
CTA President and CEO Kinsey Fabrizio sent the letter on June 17 to Senate Majority Leader John Thune and Minority Leader Charles Schumer, saying the group "strongly supports the CLARITY Act and respectfully urges the Senate to bring the legislation to the floor and pass it without delay." Lummis posted her statement on June 22, writing that "software developers should not need an army of lawyers to know if their code is legal. The Clarity Act ends that absurdity."
CTA is not a crypto trade group. Its membership is the mainstream consumer-electronics sector that runs CES every January, with named companies including Amazon, Apple, Google, Intel, LG Electronics, Panasonic, Samsung, Sony and Verizon. The June 17 letter argued that regulatory uncertainty is now a mainstream technology problem, complicating product launches, compliance planning and long-term investment by firms that are not crypto-native but build on or alongside blockchain infrastructure.
