{"id":17802,"date":"2026-01-16T09:22:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-a-crypto-titan-flexes-in-the-senate-2\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T09:22:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T09:22:17","slug":"capitol-agenda-a-crypto-titan-flexes-in-the-senate-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/capitol-agenda-a-crypto-titan-flexes-in-the-senate-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Capitol agenda: A crypto titan flexes in the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Scott is facing a crypto calamity. Landmark digital asset legislation that the Senate Banking chair hoped to advance out of committee Thursday is in extreme jeopardy after one of the industry&rsquo;s most influential executives announced his opposition Wednesday, setting off a scramble in the Senate and the White House to rescue the bill&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/live-updates\/2026\/01\/15\/congress\/crypto-vote-canceled-tim-scott-coinbase-brian-armstrong-00730617\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Scott is facing a crypto calamity. Landmark digital asset legislation that the Senate Banking chair hoped to advance out of committee Thursday is in extreme jeopardy after one of the industry&rsquo;s most influential executives announced his opposition Wednesday, setting off a scramble in the Senate and the White House to rescue the bill&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}