Who?
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) — Original sponsor, GENIUS Act
LISTEN: Laslo & Gillibrand
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.
Caught our ear:
“We would love to have an up or down vote on an ethics bill, which I will work on separately,” Gillibrand tells us. “I’m gonna try to work with [Sen.] Josh Hawley (R-MO) and other people who are interested on this.”
NEWS — Gillibrand aide expects crypto ethics vote during upcoming Senate vote-a-rama on ’big, beautiful bill’
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (6-18-25)
SCENE: Ahead of a vote, Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo’s staking out the first floor Carriage Entrance of the US Senate when Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and two aides come around the corner…
Matt Laslo: “Congrats on stablecoin!”
Kirsten Gillibrand: “Yeah!”
ML: “Does that feel good?”
KG: “Yeah.”
ML: “Now all attention goes to market structure?”
Gillibrand nods.
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