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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. Brian Schatz*

Are you worried stablecoin legislation may now be derailed because President Donald Trump and his family are profiting off digital currencies?

Key Schatz:

“What he's doing is already illegal, so we don't actually need a statute for that,” Sen. Brian Schatz exclusively told Ask a Pol. “I would say his corruption complicates the conversation for sure, but I am not one of these people who think we need to make a new law to reiterate that the existing laws shouldn’t be broken.”

*Schatz is running to replace retiring Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) as the Senate Democratic Whip (aka, #2 most powerful Democrat in the upper chamber)

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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 House Financial Services Committee French Hill:

Are any of the changes that senators are making worrying you or not yet — they just need to pass it?

Key Hill:

“No, I think they've worked hard to find consensus in the Senate,” Chair French Hill exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “We are staying in touch with them on amendments that they're taking, the approach they've done in their bill and we look forward to working with them on crafting the final product.”

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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:

Did we hear your Durbin-Marshall credit card competition amendment is getting a vote as a part of the Senate’s stablecoin debate over the Genius Act?

Key Marshall:

“I don’t know that,” Sen. Roger Marshall exclusively told Ask a Pol. “We’ll see.”

Some people say your measure isn’t related to stablecoin and belongs somewhere else because it could derail entire GENIUS Act — why’s it important to you?

“Well, certainly it's a banking bill, and this has been a Banking Committee issue,” Marshall says. “What's important is, it helps hard working men and women, it helps Main Street so it's important for the American public.”

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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 US Sen. Cynthia Lummis:

How are you feeling about stablecoin?

Key Lummis:

“Well, we had a good night last night,” Sen. Cynthia Lummis exclusively told Ask a Pol Tuesday. “So today is going to be about trying to find out who wants to amend the bill. I know Senator Thune is open to an amendment process, and so we're going to try and figure out what amendments might be coming, friendly or unfriendly, and just keep the thing moving.”

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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:

Do you worry about the politics we’re seeing being inserted into the crypto debate over in the Senate?

Key Emmer:

“I'm disappointed about that,” House Majority Whip Tom Emmer exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

“They're going to be reminded by the community that this is not about Republicans and Democrats. This is just about Americans who want the freedom that this country’s supposed to provide so they can make their decisions on that themselves.”

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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 GENIUS Act sponsor:

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.”

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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:

Does your committee — Senate Agriculture Committee — have any plan? Or you guys don't need to touch the stablecoin bill?

Key Boozman:

“We don't need to touch that, but you know the consensus is that a number of these entities belong under the jurisdiction of the CFTC [Commodity Futures Trading Commission], so that's where we'll come into play,” Boozman exclusively told us. “So we'll be working with Banking and Financial Services over on the House side.”

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Ask a Pol asks:

What do you make of the new SEC pick in terms of digital currencies?

Key Van Hollen:

“I have concerns about the whole area there,” Sen. Chris Van Hollen exclusively tells Ask a Pol.

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Who?

Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) — House Majority Whip

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Ask a Pol asks:

Do you have any timeline for passing crypto legislation?

Key Emmer:

“Before August recess,” Emmer exclusively tells Ask a Pol Crypto.

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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), slightly edited for clarity.

TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tom Emmer

SCENE: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer and his security detail are rushing from his office to a private meeting with Republicans ahead of Thursday’s budget vote when Ask a Pol’s Matt Laslo briefly catches him in the hallway for this update.

Matt Laslo: “How are you feeling now that we have a new SEC chair?”

Emmer smiles and laughs.

ML: “Different world for crypto now?”

Tom Emmer: “It is a different world for crypto. It's gonna be fun.”

Emmer starts to enter private meeting.

TE: “Sorry, I gotta get in here.”

ML: “Do you have any timeline for crypto legislation?”

TE: “Before the end of — before August recess.”

Emmer enters room.

ML: “Yup? Thank you sir.”

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In our latest episode, Ask a Pol asks:

Do you think a classified SCIF — sensitive compartmented information facility — is the right setting for a crypto briefing?

Key Warren:

“Well, it has to be for some of this”, Sen. Elizabeth Warren exclusively tells Ask a Pol. “This is about terrorist financing and how bribery operates outside the traditional financial system that has safeguards. This is one of the big problems with crypto currency. We don’t have appropriate curbs in place to try to fence out those that threaten our national security.”

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