Brad Garlinghouse flies to Miami the week the CLARITY Act heads to Senate markup

Brad Garlinghouse flew from Teterboro to Miami on Friday evening, landing at Opa-Locka Executive Airport aboard his Bombardier Global 6000, N100RP, after a 2-hour-47-minute flight. The trip follows a pattern of cross-country movements around crypto policy deadlines and industry conferences.

The same week the CLARITY Act faces its critical Senate Banking Committee markup — scheduled for May 14, per coingape.com — Garlinghouse has been publicly urging passage, calling it a “done deal” at Consensus 2026 in Miami but warning the window is closing before midterms, as reported by ethnews.com. He has argued that codifying crypto rules into law is essential because SEC guidance can be reversed by the next chair, per coindesk.com. The flight also arrives just days after Ripple, with JPMorgan and Mastercard, completed the first near-real-time cross-border tokenized Treasury redemption on the XRP Ledger, as detailed in a PRNewswire release.

Garlinghouse, who is frequently described as Fort Lauderdale- and Miami-connected in industry profiles, has flown N100RP repeatedly between San Francisco, New York, and South Florida in recent weeks — including a trip from Los Angeles to Teterboro on May 20 and a long-haul return from Oslo to Miami on May 18. This week’s New York-to-Miami leg aligns with the Senate calendar and a stretch of public appearances tied to the fate of the industry’s top legislative priority.