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Who?

Sen. Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) — Member, Senate Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs

Background: Congress is debating whether to keep the recently passed stablecoin measure as a standalone bill or whether it will be combined with market structure reform for digital assets.

Ask a Pol asks, if the President’s itching to sign something on digital assets?

“He’s itching,” Lummis says of why Congress seems to be moving forward with both a stablecoin bill — which Trump’s expected to sign soon — a separate market structure measure for other digital assets. “He is itching, which is fine.”

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Who?

Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) — Chair, Committee on Banking, Housing & Urban Affairs

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There was some crypto drama over in the House yesterday.

Key Scott: 

“Is that right? What happened?,” Sen. Tim Scott exclusively told Ask a Pol. “Tell me about it.”

The ‘rule’* went down — you didn't hear about that?

“I did,” Scott said. “I figured you know more than I know, so I was gonna get the real stuff from you.”

Are you feeling good now that Trump got involved?

“It looked like it worked out last night,” Scott said. “Didn't it?”

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*Mini-explainer: What’s a House “rule”?

The Speaker controls the House of Representatives through maintaining a seemingly all-seeing, iron grip on the Rules Committee, which is (mostly) stacked with the Speaker’s faithful lieutenants.

Before any bill can come before the full House, the Rules Committee sets up parameters of floor debate, ie how much time each party has to debate, how many amendments are allowed to be offered, which amendments will be voted on, etc.

With 435 House members, imagine if each member offered an amendment at once…

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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:

Who?

Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX)

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Ask a Pol asks:

Why’d you and a handful of other Republicans oppose the Rule to move forward with the Senate-passed stablecoin measure, the GENIUS Act?

Key Roy:

“The Senate version, the GENIUS Act, leaves some room for some concerns with respect to the central bank digital currency, with there not being a hard ban on that,” Rep. Chip Roy tells Ask a Pol. “And we had some other things in our version of the bill with respect to clarity, which, again, deals with the market structure things that we think are incredibly important.

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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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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 the Senate Ag. Committee Chair:

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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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:

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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