Democrats Win Both Chambers, Putting Crypto Bills Under New Control

The decisive shift is not the party label but the committee gavels: Brown's return puts a known crypto critic atop the panel where the CLARITY Act already died by a single vote, so the bill's House majority offers little leverage. The practical effect lands on market-structure legislation and the firms that had built timelines around it, not on tokens themselves. Whether a narrower, bipartisan vehicle emerges from Senate Banking — or whether digital-asset bills simply stall — is the open question worth tracking.