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Democratic U.S. Senator from New York who has co-sponsored digital asset and AI oversight legislation and sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee.
Gavin Newsom signed AB 2409, barring crypto platforms from listing meme coins issued from January 1, 2027 by or in partnership with a public official. The cutoff leaves the existing TRUMP token outside the rule, so the compliance cost falls on exchanges screening launches that have not happened yet.
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The GUARD Act, passed by the House on Tuesday, would let five existing Justice Department grant programs pay for the analysts, training and blockchain tracing software that local police say they lack in scam cases.
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Acting Navy Secretary Hung Cao told Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand in writing that eight Lincoln strike group sailors attempted suicide on deployment. For leaders running a long surge, it shows how far a readiness summary can sit from what the work costs the people doing it.
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Mark Warner and four Democratic colleagues have asked for the standards and the legal authorities behind a June directive that took two Anthropic models offline worldwide for two weeks. They want a public framework.
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A 49-50 cloture vote left the crypto market-structure bill short of the 60 needed to open debate, so the SEC/CFTC jurisdictional split it would have created stays unwritten. Roadmaps dated against it now wait on a motion that failed its first vote.
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The Senate voted 50-49 against the Clarity Act on September 15, so the federal digital-asset framework stays unwritten. The fight that sank it was over ethics language tied to the president's own crypto holdings.
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Cloture failed with 49 of the 60 votes needed. The two-agency perimeter the industry spent hundreds of millions to buy now falls to whatever the SEC and CFTC write on their own. Atkins still wants a statute.
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The Senate left the Clarity Act 11 votes short of the 60 needed on Tuesday. Bitcoin fell 4.5%, while Coinbase and Circle, the two firms that would have gained a primary regulator, fell 10.10% and 11.4%.
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The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act lost 49-50 on September 15. Coinbase fell 12% and Circle 13% the same day, at the end of an election-cycle lobbying effort cryptobriefing estimates at $100m to $225m.
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