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(50,943 posts) Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:36 PM Friday

List of the 102 House Democrats who voted Yea on the The Genius Act, the pro-crypto bill that Trump just signed into law

The 18 Dem Senate Yeas are below as well

https://clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025200

Aguilar Democratic California Yea
Amo Democratic Rhode Island Yea
Bell Democratic Missouri Yea
Bera Democratic California Yea
Boyle (PA) Democratic Pennsylvania Yea
Brownley Democratic California Yea
Budzinski Democratic Illinois Yea
Bynum Democratic Oregon Yea
Carbajal Democratic California Yea
Cherfilus-McCormick Democratic Florida Yea
Clark (MA) Democratic Massachusetts Yea
Conaway Democratic New Jersey Yea
Correa Democratic California Yea
Costa Democratic California Yea
Craig Democratic Minnesota Yea
Crockett Democratic Texas Yea
Cuellar Democratic Texas Yea
Davis (NC) Democratic North Carolina Yea
DelBene Democratic Washington Yea
Espaillat Democratic New York Yea
Fields Democratic Louisiana Yea
Figures Democratic Alabama Yea
Frankel, Lois Democratic Florida Yea
Garcia (CA) Democratic California Yea
Gillen Democratic New York Yea
Golden (ME) Democratic Maine Yea
Goldman (NY) Democratic New York Yea
Gomez Democratic California Yea
Gonzalez, V. Democratic Texas Yea
Goodlander Democratic New Hampshire Yea
Gottheimer Democratic New Jersey Yea
Gray Democratic California Yea
Harder (CA) Democratic California Yea
Himes Democratic Connecticut Yea
Horsford Democratic Nevada Yea
Houlahan Democratic Pennsylvania Yea
Jackson (IL) Democratic Illinois Yea
Jeffries Democratic New York Yea
Johnson (TX) Democratic Texas Yea
Kamlager-Dove Democratic California Yea
Kelly (IL) Democratic Illinois Yea
Kennedy (NY) Democratic New York Yea
Khanna Democratic California Yea
Krishnamoorthi Democratic Illinois Yea
Landsman Democratic Ohio Yea
Larsen (WA) Democratic Washington Yea
Latimer Democratic New York Yea
Lee (NV) Democratic Nevada Yea
Levin Democratic California Yea
Liccardo Democratic California Yea
Lieu Democratic California Yea
Lofgren Democratic California Yea
Magaziner Democratic Rhode Island Yea
Mannion Democratic New York Yea
Matsui Democratic California Yea
McBath Democratic Georgia Yea
McClain Delaney Democratic Maryland Yea
McDonald Rivet Democratic Michigan Yea
McGarvey Democratic Kentucky Yea
Meeks Democratic New York Yea
Menendez Democratic New Jersey Yea
Meng Democratic New York Yea
Min Democratic California Yea
Moskowitz Democratic Florida Yea
Moulton Democratic Massachusetts Yea
Olszewski Democratic Maryland Yea
Panetta Democratic California Yea
Pappas Democratic New Hampshire Yea
Pelosi Democratic California Yea
Perez Democratic Washington Yea
Peters Democratic California Yea
Pettersen Democratic Colorado Yea
Pou Democratic New Jersey Yea
Quigley Democratic Illinois Yea
Riley (NY) Democratic New York Yea
Ruiz Democratic California Yea
Ryan Democratic New York Yea
Schneider Democratic Illinois Yea
Scholten Democratic Michigan Yea
Schrier Democratic Washington Yea
Sewell Democratic Alabama Yea
Sherrill Democratic New Jersey Yea
Sorensen Democratic Illinois Yea
Soto Democratic Florida Yea
Stanton Democratic Arizona Yea
Stevens Democratic Michigan Yea
Strickland Democratic Washington Yea
Subramanyam Democratic Virginia Yea
Suozzi Democratic New York Yea
Swalwell Democratic California Yea
Sykes Democratic Ohio Yea
Thanedar Democratic Michigan Yea
Thompson (CA) Democratic California Yea
Titus Democratic Nevada Yea
Torres (NY) Democratic New York Yea
Trahan Democratic Massachusetts Yea
Tran Democratic California Yea
Vasquez Democratic New Mexico Yea
Veasey Democratic Texas Yea
Vindman Democratic Virginia Yea
Wasserman Schultz Democratic Florida Yea
Whitesides Democratic California Yea

the 18 Dem Senator Yeas

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_votes/vote1191/vote_119_1_00318.htm#position

YEAs

Alsobrooks (D-MD)
Booker (D-NJ)
Cortez Masto (D-NV)
Fetterman (D-PA)
Gallego (D-AZ)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Hassan (D-NH)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Hickenlooper (D-CO)
Kim (D-NJ)
Lujan (D-NM)
Ossoff (D-GA)
Padilla (D-CA)
Rosen (D-NV)
Schiff (D-CA)
Slotkin (D-MI)
Warner (D-VA)
Warnock (D-GA)

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-signs-genius-act-crypto-bill/

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List of the 102 House Democrats who voted Yea on the The Genius Act, the pro-crypto bill that Trump just signed into law (Original Post) Celerity Friday OP

The Genius act. 4th Friday #1

Im guessing these democrats rely on youth, tech, Gaugamela Friday #2

Surprised and disappointed to see Crockett and Goldman on the list Fiendish Thingy Friday #3

Background to that, for those who don''t know muriel_volestrangler Friday #4

Serious question: why is this bill bad? SSJVegeta Friday #5

Because it appears to give crypto credibility muriel_volestrangler Friday #7

Thank you!! SSJVegeta Friday #8

Making the world safe for money launderers! Kid Berwyn Friday #6

I wonder how much that yea vote paid? nt Hotler Friday #9

I'm not sure I'll ever get used to asking... Hugin Friday #10

Young people are into this JI7 Friday #11

Does this bill include angrychair Friday #12

This is mind numbingly frustrating angrychair Friday #13

I wonder if it's so they can keep a hand on it n/t GenThePerservering Saturday #14

4th

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1. The Genius act.

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:40 PM

Friday

Yet another instance of the legislative principle that a law with a cutesy-poo name is evil.

Gaugamela

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2. Im guessing these democrats rely on youth, tech,

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 04:54 PM

Friday

and libertarian voters that they can't afford to alienate.

Fiendish Thingy

(20,074 posts)

3. Surprised and disappointed to see Crockett and Goldman on the list

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:01 PM

Friday

I guess everyone has their price.

Gallego’s was $10 million in donations from crypto PACs.

muriel_volestrangler

(104,139 posts)

4. Background to that, for those who don''t know

Reply to Fiendish Thingy (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:11 PM

Friday

Dem Overseeing ‘Digital Assets’ to Hold Luxury Retreat With Crypto Kingpin

Fri, February 7, 2025

Freshman Arizona Sen. Ruben Gallego was recently named the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee’s new subcommittee on “digital assets,” which will oversee cryptocurrencies. On the heels of that appointment, Gallego will hold a ritzy donor retreat alongside one of the crypto industry’s biggest cheerleaders and investors, Marc Andreessen.
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Rolling Stone reached out to Gallego to ask if the senator thought it was appropriate to hold a fundraising retreat with one of the major funders of a pro-crypto Super PAC while also serving as ranking member on the Senate subcommittee overseeing the industry; the senator declined to comment. (Andreessen Horowitz did not immediately respond to a request for comment.)

Andreessen actively advised Donald Trump as he assembled his new pro-crypto administration. (Speaking on Bari Weiss’ podcast in December, Andreessen said he’d been spending half his time at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort. “I’ve been trying to help in as many ways as I can,” he said.) His VC firm recently drew headlines for hiring ex-marine Daniel Penny, who was acquitted of criminally negligent homicide last year after he was filmed choking a homeless man to death on a New York City subway.

A crypto industry Super PAC called Protect Progress spent $10 million boosting Gallego’s 2024 Senate campaign. Protect Progress and its parent organization, Fairshake, received $138 million last election cycle from Andreessen, co-founder Ben Horowitz, and their firm, which has invested in crypto for years and lobbies extensively on crypto issues.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/dem-overseeing-digital-assets-hold-172708955.html

SSJVegeta

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5. Serious question: why is this bill bad?

Reply to Celerity (Original post)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:15 PM

Friday

At first glance it seems that regulating the crypto market could generally make things better and make it easier to track funds being used for criminal purposes. Right?

muriel_volestrangler

(104,139 posts)

7. Because it appears to give crypto credibility

Reply to SSJVegeta (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 05:28 PM

Friday

And a basic test is: is Trump in favour? If so, it's bad.

Critics argue the bill will introduce new risks into the financial system, by legitimising stablecoins without erecting sufficient protections for consumers.

For example, they said it would deepen tech firms' participation in bank-like activities without subjecting them to similar oversight, and leave customers hanging in a convoluted bankruptcy process in the event that a stablecoin firm should fail.

They had also tried to rally opposition to the bill by arguing that voting in favour was effectively condoning Trump's business activities - including his family's promotion of their own crypto coins.
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"Some members may believe passage of this bill, even with flaws, is better than the status quo. We believe this is a fundamental misunderstanding of the risks involved with these instruments," a coalition of consumer and advocacy groups wrote in a letter to Congress this spring.

They warned that passage would "allow the proliferation of assets that consumers will wrongly perceive as safe".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd78lvd94zyo