Who?
Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN) — Sponsor, the GENIUS Act
LISTEN: Laslo & Hagerty
Ask a Pol asks:
Any update on your stablecoin bill?
Key Hagerty:
“The time is closing on this,” Sen. Bill Hagerty exclusively told Ask a Pol. “So if we're going to have a deal, it's going to have to be now. I think we're in broad agreement…from a policy perspective.”
ICYMI — pressure mounting on Congress to catch up
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Caught our ear:
“That is completely irrelevant to this bill,” Hagerty tells us. “That is just being used as a means to politicize what should be a, you know, what should be a nonpartisan issue.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Bill Hagerty (R-TN), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Bill Hagerty
SCENE: Sen. Bill Hagerty’s editing a message on his phone while riding an elevator up to the Senate floor with Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo standing behind him and an aide.
Once the elevator doors open, the senator turns and starts talking to Laslo before heading onto the Senate floor to cast his vote…
Matt Laslo: “Any update on your stablecoin measure?”
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