Who?

Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) — House Financial Services Committee

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Ask a Pol asks:

What do you think about the new House effort to combine market structure and stablecoin measures into one behmoath bill?

Key Torres:

“I’d prefer to do one at a time,” Rep. Ritchie Torres exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “Both bills are complicated but market structure even more. Allowing a simpler piece of legislation to be held hostage by a more complicated piece of legislation strikes me as unwise.”

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Who?

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — Original sponsor, GENIUS Act

Ask a Pol asks:

Congrats on passing your stablecoin bill. So now all attention goes to passing a market structure for other digital assets?

Key Gillibrand:

“We’ll be focused on reconciliation, and then after reconciliation I will start working with my bipartisan colleagues on our version of what we’d like to see,” Gillibrand exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

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Anything you all learned from passing stablecoin out of the Senate when it comes to the next heavy lift for this Congress, ie establishing market structure for digital assets?

Key Hagerty:

“Yeah, I think the momentum that we're going to build here is going to be widely felt across the industry and frankly, across the economy,” Sen. Bill Hagerty exclusively told Ask a Pol. “We've had an opportunity to condition my colleagues here in the Senate as to the importance of moving on to the 21st century payment system but also to expand their thoughts about the entirety of market structure.”

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Visit Ask a Pol ~ asking your lawmakers your questions at your US Capitol ~What should we ask Congress next? Let us know!In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).

How are you feeling about stablecoin?

Key Gillibrand:

“It's done,” Gillibrand — Original cosponsor, The GENIUS Act — exclusively told Ask a Pol Crypto. “I got two more votes. I got [Sen. Andy] Kim (D-NJ), and [Sen. John] Hickenlooper (D-CO) joined our vote last vote, and then we'll have one more on final passage.* So we'll have at least all those vote yes.”

*unless an agreement is reached to speed things up, final passage is expected Tuesday.

Caught our ear:

Does it feel like this Congress is now ready to kinda tackle crypto and do other stuff?

“I’m hopeful. I do think that market structure is far more complex than stablecoin,” Gillibrand told us. “So I think it'll take a larger working group, and early review of early drafts to just try to get consensus earlier. It's gonna be a much heavier lift.”

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How you feeling about the stablecoin measure before the Senate?

Key Gallego:

“Feeling good. I mean, the progress has continuously been good,” Digital Assets Subcommittee Ranking Member Sen. Ruben Gallego — who helped spearhead the recent Democratic revolt to the bipartisan GENIUS Act that’s before the US Senate over $TRUMP meme coins — exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “The agreements that we’ve struck have been very good. I think everyone on both sides have been working really in an honest manner to bring a good strong bill to the floor.”

Landmine ahead…?

Do you think the Durbin-Marshall amendment would kill the bipartisan stablecoin measure?

“I think it would,” Gallego says.

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How you feeling on stablecoin?

Key Boozman:

“I haven’t thought about it lately,” Sen. John Boozman exclusively tells Ask a Pol Crypto. “I’ve been trying to get this other stuff done.”

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How you feeling about the stablecoin measure before the Senate?

Key Gallego:

“Feeling good. I mean, the progress has continuously been good,” Digital Assets Subcommittee Ranking Member Sen. Ruben Gallego — who helped spearhead the recent Democratic revolt to the bipartisan GENIUS Act that’s before the US Senate over $TRUMP meme coins — exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “The agreements that we’ve struck have been very good. I think everyone on both sides have been working really in an honest manner to bring a good strong bill to the floor.”

Landmine ahead…?

Do you think the Durbin-Marshall amendment would kill the bipartisan stablecoin measure?

“I think it would,” Gallego says.

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Are you worried stablecoin legislation may now be derailed because President Donald Trump and his family are profiting off digital currencies?

Key Schatz:

“What he's doing is already illegal, so we don't actually need a statute for that,” Sen. Brian Schatz exclusively told Ask a Pol. “I would say his corruption complicates the conversation for sure, but I am not one of these people who think we need to make a new law to reiterate that the existing laws shouldn’t be broken.”

*Schatz is running to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) as the Senate Democratic Whip (aka, #2 most powerful Democrat in the upper chamber)

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