Sherrod Brown Wins Ohio Senate Seat, Complicating CLARITY Act’s 60-Vote Path

Brown's return matters less for his vote than for the committee and procedural leverage he once wielded, and for what his Ohio win signals about crypto's standing with voters in a swing state. The CLARITY Act's cloture failure already showed the House majority does not travel to the Senate, and a senator with a record of blocking stablecoin bills adds another obstacle in a chamber where 60 votes remain the binding constraint. Whether market-structure legislation can assemble a bipartisan coalition that survives that threshold is the open question.