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The vote exposed an unexpected coalition in Washington, where campaign spending and intensive lobbying failed to secure a path forward.

In this episode, Scott Melker discusses the Clarity Act’s failure to advance in the Senate, the Fed’s expected interest rate hike, and Circle’s (CRCL) launch of its Arc blockchain.

$XRP has fallen close to 9% over the past 24 hours to trade near $1.30 on Sept. 16, leaving the token around 7% below the $1.40 level it held before the latest selloff.

President Donald Trump steps off Marine One at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, on September 13. Anna Moneymaker/

The CLARITY Act‘s Senate cloture vote failed 49 to 50, well short of the 60 needed to end debate, and the two cleanest equity proxies for U.S. crypto market-structure legislation are taking the hit. Coinbase (NASDAQ:COIN | COIN Price Prediction)…

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The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act on September 15, falling short 49-50 in a procedural cloture vote, and the crypto market’s leveraged bulls paid almost immediately, especially in BTC USD and Ethereum.

In Ripple news today, the US Senate voted 49-50 on September 15, 2026, against invoking cloture on the motion to proceed to the CLARITY Act, falling 11 votes short of the 60 needed to advance the crypto market-structure bill.

Bitcoin price analysis is rough right now, as it trades around $75,700, down roughly -2.2% on the day, while a bruised market digests a Senate vote that went nowhere. There’s a quieter number worth watching too, one buried further down in the presale data most traders haven’t looked at yet.

The CLARITY Act, a bill to regulate digital assets, failed in the U.S. Senate. The vote split 49 in favor and 50 against.