Sen. Gillibrand ‘optimistic’ Senate Agriculture will advance crypto bill
Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., is “very optimistic” the Senate Agriculture Committee’s updated legislation to regulate cryptocurrencies will advance, even though Republicans have yet to reach a deal with Democrats.
“Senators have been working on a bipartisan basis for the last six months pretty intensely, and we have two different bills,” Gillibrand told CNBC in an exclusive interview.
One piece of legislation is in the Agriculture Committee, which oversees the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the second piece is at the Banking Committee, which oversees the Securities and Exchange Commission and banking issues, she said.
“Because these types of digital assets have some characteristics of both commodities and…
