Who?
Jack Reed (D-RI) — Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Services
Ask a Pol asked:
“Are you expecting to see any action on your cryptocurrency bill with Sen. [Mark] Warner this year?”
Key Reed:
“We’re trying to get cosponsors and develop possible support. But we don’t have any schedule yet or hearing.”
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LISTEN: Laslo & Reed
Below find a rough transcript of Ask a Pol’s exclusive interview with Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), slightly edited for clarity.
TRANSCRIPT: Sen. Jack Reed
Matt Laslo: “Are you expecting to see any action on your cryptocurrency bill with Sen. [Mark] Warner this year?”
Jack Reed: “We’re trying to get cosponsors and develop possible support, but we don’t have any schedule yet — a hearing or a vote.”
ML: “It just doesn’t feel like there’s attention on the topic here?”
JR: “Well, there’s a lot of…”
Reed heads to open Senators Only elevator.
JR: “Excuse me.”
ML: “Yeah.”
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. @MattLaslo / @AskaPol_crypto
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Sen. Jack Reed on his crypto bill w/ Warner: "we don’t have any schedule yet or hearing"