I spent 35 years as a registered nurse. My husband worked just as hard. We saved carefully, lived within our means, and trusted that the rules protecting America’s financial markets would still be standing when we needed them most.
My husband is gone now. What we built together is what I have left. And the United States Senate is considering legislation that could put it all at risk.
The bill is called the CLARITY Act, and I am asking Senator Bill Cassidy to vote no.
Between my retirement and my husband’s, I get by. But just barely. There is no margin for error and no room to absorb losses from a financial system that Congress decided to leave unprotected. The CLARITY Act strips away the investor safeguards that have made America’s markets the most trusted in the world, handing crypto special interests a carve-out from the transparency and accountability rules that every other financial market has to follow.
Every time Congress creates that kind of exception, ordinary people pay for it. We learned that in 1929. We learned it again in 2008. Retirees living on fixed incomes do not get a second chance to rebuild what fraud and market failure take away.
Senator Cassidy has shown real courage on hard issues before. I am asking him to bring that same backbone to this vote.
Vote no on the CLARITY Act. Protect the savings that families like mine spent a lifetime building.
Lu Jones
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