BREAKDOWN: Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand on the Responsible Financial Innovation Act
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🗓️ 13 June 2022
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The senators discuss how the bill came together, and why crypto remains bipartisan.
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Today on “The Breakdown,” Sens. Cynthia Lummis and Kirsten Gillibrand join NLW to discuss their recently released Responsible Financial Innovation Act. They discuss:
- How Senator Gillibrand came to be interested in the topic.
- How “ancillary assets” came to be defined for digital assets.
- The bill’s approach to investor protections.
- Stablecoins vs CBDCs.
- And much more.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:15.0 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, near an FtX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:24.6 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, |
| 0:31.4 | June 13th, and oh boy, do I have something exciting for you guys today. This episode, as our last few have been, was recorded during Consensus at the CoinDesk podcast studio, which was presented |
| 0:36.3 | by Oak Network. Thanks to Oak for their |
| 0:38.7 | support. Before we get into this conversation, however, if you are enjoying the breakdown, please |
| 0:43.3 | go subscribe to it, give it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to dig deeper into the |
| 0:47.5 | conversation, come join us on the Breakers Discord. You can find a link in the show notes or go to |
| 0:51.9 | bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:59.9 | On today's show, I am joined by Senator Cynthia Lummis and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand. |
| 1:05.2 | Senator Lumas is a Republican senator from Wyoming, who is a longtime Bitcoin advocate and who sits on the Senate Banking Committee. |
| 1:07.2 | Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is a Democratic senator from New York and sits on the Senate |
| 1:11.1 | Ag Committee, which oversees the CFTC, as well as the Intelligence Committee, which is more |
| 1:15.6 | relevant than you might think for this particular conversation. Last week, Senators |
| 1:19.6 | Lummussen-Jillibrand introduced the Responsible Financial Innovation Act, which represents easily |
| 1:24.4 | the most comprehensive, thoughtful, balanced, and forward-looking approach |
| 1:28.2 | to U.S. crypto and digital asset regulation to date. I gave a full first reaction to that last week, |
| 1:33.1 | which you can go and listen to. On today's show, we discussed the bill, bipartisanship on the |
| 1:37.9 | digital asset space, and what happens next. All right, senators, welcome to The Breakdown. |
| 1:45.0 | Thank you so much for being here and making time. |
| 1:47.0 | I really appreciate it. |
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