Who?
Sen. John Boozman (R-AR) — Chair, Senate Agriculture Committee
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Ask a Pol asks:
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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Caught our ear:
“We’ll pivot to that probably latter part of next week,” Boozman told us on Thursday (June 5, 2025). “It’s something that we’re going to get done, we’re just having some bumps to work out.”
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. John Boozman (R-AR), slightly edited for clarity.
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TRANSCRIPT: Sen. John Boozman (6-5-2025)
SCENE: Senate Agriculture Committee Chair John Boozman just voted on the Senate floor after which Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo proceeds to walk and hop an elevator as he heads to the underground Senate tram.
Matt Laslo: “How you feeling on stablecoin?”
John Boozman: “I haven’t thought about it lately.”
ML: “No?”
Laslo laughs
JB: “I’ve been trying to get this other stuff done.”
ML: “Yeah? Got a little homework?”*
*as a Senate committee chair, Boozman’s tasked with helping overhaul the House-passed One Big Beautiful Bill Act, ie the reconciliation package (aka President Donald Trump’s agenda).
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JB: “How are you feeling about stablecoin?”
ML: “Who knows? So you probably weren’t able to track the kind of market structure hearings in the House?
Boozman shakes head no.
JB: “No.”
ML: “Yeah?”
JB: “I will.”
ML: “Seems like they’re itching to go.”
JB: “Get this done, and then we will pivot to that probably latter part of next week.”
ML: “Do you think — you guys still don’t know amendments?”
JB: “No. No the — right now we’re being hung up by the Durbin[-Marshall bill].”
ML: “Yeah? It’ll be Interesting. Wait — it’s still a priority for [Senate Majority Leader John] Thune and the [GOP] conference?”
JB: “Yeah.”
ML: “Yeah? It’s just getting over this impasse?”
JB: “Yeah. It’s very definitely a priority. It’s something that we’re going to get done.”
ML: “Yeah?”
JB: “We’re just having some bumps to work out.”
ML: “I heard there was as many as like 60 amendments people had.”
Senate tram pulls up and doors open.
JB: “I wouldn’t be surprised. You know, this is something that people want to put their voice to and — but that’s really what, you know, that’s what an open process is all about, so…”
ML: “Yeah?”
Boozman starts entering underground Senate tram.
ML: “I’ll be watching. ‘Preciate you.”
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