16 dem senators voted to advance GOP's crypto bill. The vote is a major step forward to pass industry-friendly crypto legislation.

I edited it and made the list. Also - fuck them for not alphabetizing it.

The procedural motion drew support from 16 Democrats:
Kirsten Gillibrand of New York
Angela Alsobrooks of Maryland
Ruben Gallego of Arizona
Mark Warner of Virginia
Lisa Blunt Rochester of Delaware
Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada
Ben Ray Luján of New Mexico
Adam Schiff of California
Cory Booker of New Jersey
Elissa Slotkin of Michigan
John Fetterman of Pennsylvania
Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire
Martin Heinrich of New Mexico
Jon Ossoff of Georgia
Alex Padilla of California
Jacky Rosen of Nevada

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BREAKING: Cory Booker Says 25 Hour Senate Floor Speech Caused Him to Undergo Emergency Spine Removal Surgery Which Led to Him Voting For Stablecoin Bill
Gee - it's a real shocker that a typical performative dem is garbage.

From what I understood based on the recent TrueAnon episode about cryptocurrency and stablecoins, this seems to be the ruling class consensus. The US is going to use the existing crpytocurrency, and specifically stablecoin (pegged to the US dollar) infrastructure, to compete with China's (and other countries') central bank digital currencies (CBDCs?).
And in 20 years they'll proclaim that CBDCs are "authoritarian" while their US-dollar-stablecoins are "decentralized and democratized" (indirectly and directly controlled by the US oligarchy). And maybe use it as an excuse for more sanctions or whatever against anyone who refuses to only trade in US-stablecoins. I'm sure it will be insufferable.
Basically I don't know if there's much of a point in trying to fight the whole stablecoin/cryptocurrency thing through the political system of the US. Alternative technologies (like China's Digital RMB) is probably what people will be looking at.

Cryptofash with cryptocurrency

Mark Warner is a dem??
- Yeap.