Skip to main content
GWGovwatch
CongressBillsCommitteesPresidentMoneyPulseMisconductElectionsMap
Donate

Weekly accountability digest

One email a week with new votes, moving bills, and misconduct updates. No spam.

GW

Govwatch. Public data about Congress, in one place, in plain English.

Built with public data. Not affiliated with the U.S. government.

Explore

  • Officials
  • Legislation
  • Committees
  • Congress Pulse
  • Trending Topics
  • Bipartisan Leaderboard
  • Weekly Digest
  • Misconduct
  • Predictions

Learn

  • How Congress Works
  • How a Bill Becomes Law
  • Campaign Finance 101
  • Glossary

Tools

  • My Representatives
  • Compare Members
  • Bill Watchlist
  • Search
  • District Map
  • Follow the Money
  • Watch Live

Site

  • About
  • Contact
  • Corrections
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of Service

Data Sources

Congress.gov API v3
Bills, members, votes
GovInfo API
Floor speeches, reports, bill text
Federal Election Commission (FEC)
Campaign finance
VoteView (UCLA)
Ideology scores (DW-NOMINATE)
GovTrack.us
Misconduct data (CC0)
U.S. Census Bureau
District demographics

Data Last Updated

Bills & Votes: 4 hours ago
Support This Project

This site is free. Donations help cover hosting, API fees, and keeping the data fresh.

All data is sourced from official government APIs and public records. This site is for informational purposes only.

© 2026 Govwatch

SJRES3Passed Senate

A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to "Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales".

Share:
Introduced
In Committee
Passed One Chamber
4
Passed Both
5
Signed into Law
119th
Congress
2025-01-21
Introduced
14
Cosponsors
SJRES
ⓘ
Type

Sponsor

Ted Cruz
Ted Cruz
Republican · TX · Senator
Votes with party: 74.0% (813 recorded votes)
Top industries funding sponsor:
  • Conservative Groups$464k

Full profile: /officials/C001098

Source: Congress.gov · FEC

Cosponsors (14)

Members who have signed on to support this bill since introduction. Source: Congress.gov.

  • Bill Hagerty (R-TN)Original· 2025-01-21
  • Cynthia M. Lummis (R-WY)Original· 2025-01-21
  • Ted Budd (R-NC)Original· 2025-01-21
  • Thom Tillis (R-NC)Original· 2025-01-21
  • Tim Sheehy (R-MT)Original· 2025-01-21
  • Bernie Moreno (R-OH)· 2025-01-24
  • John R. Curtis (R-UT)· 2025-01-28
  • Mike Lee (R-UT)· 2025-01-28
  • Tom Cotton (R-AR)· 2025-01-28
  • Jim Banks (R-IN)· 2025-02-03
  • Steve Daines (R-MT)· 2025-02-04
  • Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)· 2025-02-10
  • Tim Scott (R-SC)· 2025-02-20
  • David McCormick (R-PA)· 2025-03-04

Latest Action

The most recent step in the bill's legislative path. Committee Activity below shows referrals and reports; the full action-by-action history including floor proceedings lives at Congress.gov →

Message received in Senate: Returned to the Senate pursuant to the provisions of H.Res. 212.

2025-03-12

Source: Congress.gov

Committee Activity

Currently in

  • Senate Committee on FinanceDischarged From · 2025-02-12

Previously

  • Senate Committee on FinanceReferred To · 2025-01-21

Plain-English Summary

This joint resolution nullifies the rule titled Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales and issued by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) on December 30, 2024. The rule generally requires persons effectuating decentralized financial (DeFi) transactions to report certain information regarding digital asset sales to the IRS.

Plain-English rewrite of the Congressional Research Service summary published on Congress.gov. Cached and reviewed.

Affected Industries

Industries and interest groups with a stake in how this bill is resolved. Compare with each member's outside-money backers on their finance page.

Crypto & Digital Assets

Why this matters: Look up any member who voted on this bill and check their finance page — do the industries listed above match the groups funding their campaigns? That's the kind of connection this tool is built to help you find.

Subjects

Taxation

Full Bill Text

Verbatim text published on Congress.gov via GovInfo. Use Cmd+F / Ctrl+F to search within this excerpt.

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S.J. Res. 3 Engrossed in Senate (ES)] <DOC> 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 3 _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to ``Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales''. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That Congress disapproves the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to ``Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales'' (89 Fed. Reg. 106928 (December 30, 2024)), and such rule shall have no force or effect. Passed the Senate March 4, 2025. Attest: Secretary. 119th CONGRESS 1st Session S. J. RES. 3 _______________________________________________________________________ JOINT RESOLUTION Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Internal Revenue Service relating to ``Gross Proceeds Reporting by Brokers That Regularly Provide Services Effectuating Digital Asset Sales''.
Open clean-text viewRead on Congress.gov →

Related legislation

Bills by the same sponsor or covering overlapping subjects.

  • S4894FUSE Act
    Referred to Committee · 2026-06-24
  • S4902PROTECT Act
    Referred to Committee · 2026-06-24
  • S4668Protect College Sports Act of 2026
    Reported by Committee · 2026-06-24
  • S4863Save Our Shrimpers Act
    Referred to Committee · 2026-06-23