Senator Kirsten Gillibrand has been one of the key Democratic voices on crypto legislation in the Senate,

working across the aisle on both the Lumas Gillibrand Digital Asset Framework and the Genius Act Stablecoin Bill,

with stable coin regulation moving ahead and broader market structures still and resolved. Senator Gillibrand joins us now. Hello. How are you? I'm doing well. How are you? Very well. Well, you know, in my intro, I said that broader market structure is still unresolved, but we have had some resolution come. Well, just want to get your thoughts, lay a foundation for us where we are with market structure.

And are you optimistic that we will get this to the finish line before midterms?

I am optimistic.

We really only have a few outstanding issues and the different negotiating groups are working in very good faith and they've made a lot of progress.

We have a few more consumer protections that we need to nail down

specifically for the CFTC, but also to make sure states can enforce their consumer protection laws.

So that's important. And then we're making sure we have the right balance between protecting

coders and builders, but also making sure there's tools to go after

illicit finance, particularly terror financing. And then third, we really want an ethics provision

to ban all members of Congress, all senior administration officials, president, vice president,

from being issuers or promoters, because we don't want people to be getting rich in positions of authority

when they're regulating the industry.

It's just, it's against all ethics laws.

It's against campaign finance laws.

It's against the Constitution.

So we want to make it explicit that we cannot allow this type of participation by lawmakers

and people in senior government roles because they have too much

inside information and they have a disproportionate amount of power.

There's two really awesome questions I could ask right there, but I stick with the first one

on the ethics part or on the second one with the case of ethics and how you guys are going to

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