Who?
Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) — House Majority Whip
Ask a Pol asked:
“What’d you make of the SEC’s announcement on crypto?”
Key Emmer:
“It's about time. It was so intellectually inconsistent…”
Clutch Emmer:
“It's amazing to me. What happened to Gary Gensler?”
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Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s interview with Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Rep. Tom Emmer
Matt Laslo: “What’d you make of the SEC’s announcement on crypto?”
Tom Emmer: “It's amazing to me. What happened to Gary Gensler?”
ML: “Right?”
TE: “It's about time. It was so intellectually inconsistent to allow the futures market and the CFTC and not to do that.”
ML: “You feel like he was forced into that or no?”
TE: “No. I think he did the right thing.”
ML: “Yeah? Preciate ya.”*
*will circle back soon with a more precise question for Emmer, as he didn’t hear that I was asking if this move negated Gensler’s previous stances; admittedly in an imprecise way.
Matt Laslo covers tech politics for WIRED, lectures on technology’s impact on government at Johns Hopkins and is the founder of Ask a Pol — a new people-powered press corps. On social @MattLaslo // @Ask_a_Pol
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House Whip Emmer on SEC crypto about-face: “It's amazing to me. What happened to Gary Gensler?”