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.”
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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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ML: “Does that make you nervous?”
KG: “No, I…”
Gillibrand Aide: “I think all attention really is going to reconciliation…”
KG: “Yeah.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Aide: “…and Republicans’ efforts to cut Medicare Medicaid to provide tax cuts to rich people.”
Laslo laughs witnessing a sitting US Senator get cut off by her aide who offers no information, just partisan talking points…
KG: “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.”
ML: “Do you think Democrats are still gonna want some constraints put on Trump and the family coins?”
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KG: “We would love to have an up or down vote on an ethics bill, which I will work on separately.”
ML: “Yeah?”
KG: “I’m gonna try to work with [Sen.] Josh Hawley (R-MO) and other people who are interested on this.”
ML: “Yeah? That’ll be interesting.”
Laslo having to flip his attention between the senator and her aide.
Aide: “I’m sure we’ll get a vote on it during vote-a-rama.”
ML: “Yeah?”
Aide: “Well, in the Senate we’ll have a chance, like, maybe, the vote-a-rama week, we can have all those votes.”
KG: “But I’m gonna work on a bipartisan amendment now, because I think it’s really important.”
Logan Johnson contributed to this report.
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