Bills /
Gensler confirmation (SEC)
- What it does
- Confirmed Gary Gensler to the SEC, which he chaired from 2021 to January 2025.
- What happened
- Confirmed in April 2021. Under Gensler the SEC sued Binance and Coinbase in June 2023, arguing much of crypto trading was unregistered securities activity.
- Scored as
- Nay = bag-friendly. Gensler's SEC led the enforcement-first approach to crypto. A yes vote is bag-hostile. Half weight because a confirmation is about more than crypto. The Senate voted again on April 20 for his next term; only the first vote counts.
- Sources
- CNBC: Coinbase sued by SEC (June 2023)
Senate · Apr 14, 2021
45bag-friendly (Nay)D 0 · R 45 · I 0
53bag-hostile (Yea)D 48 · R 3 · I 2
2not voting / present
Every vote
bag-friendly
- R John Barrasso
- R Marsha Blackburn
- R Roy Blunt
- R John Boozman
- R Mike Braun
- R Richard Burr
- R Shelley Moore Capito
- R Bill Cassidy
- R John Cornyn
- R Tom Cotton
- R Kevin Cramer
- R Mike Crapo
- R Ted Cruz
- R Steve Daines
- R Joni Ernst
- R Deb Fischer
- R Lindsey Graham
- R Bill Hagerty
- R Josh Hawley
- R John Hoeven
- R Cindy Hyde-Smith
- R James M. Inhofe
- R Ron Johnson
- R John Kennedy
- R James Lankford
- R Mike Lee
- R Roger Marshall
- R Mitch McConnell
- R Jerry Moran
- R Lisa Murkowski
- R Rand Paul
- R Rob Portman
- R James E. Risch
- R Mitt Romney
- R Marco Rubio
- R Ben Sasse
- R Rick Scott
- R Tim Scott
- R Richard C. Shelby
- R Dan Sullivan
- R John Thune
- R Patrick J. Toomey
- R Tommy Tuberville
- R Roger F. Wicker
- R Todd Young
bag-hostile
- D Tammy Baldwin
- D Michael F. Bennet
- D Richard Blumenthal
- D Cory A. Booker
- D Sherrod Brown
- D Maria Cantwell
- D Benjamin L. Cardin
- D Thomas R. Carper
- D Robert P. Casey, Jr.
- D Christopher A. Coons
- D Catherine Cortez Masto
- D Tammy Duckworth
- D Richard J. Durbin
- D Dianne Feinstein
- D Kirsten E. Gillibrand
- D Margaret Wood Hassan
- D Martin Heinrich
- D John W. Hickenlooper
- D Mazie K. Hirono
- D Tim Kaine
- D Mark Kelly
- D Amy Klobuchar
- D Patrick J. Leahy
- D Ben Ray Luján
- D Joe Manchin, III
- D Edward J. Markey
- D Robert Menendez
- D Jeff Merkley
- D Christopher Murphy
- D Patty Murray
- D Jon Ossoff
- D Alex Padilla
- D Gary C. Peters
- D Jack Reed
- D Jacky Rosen
- D Brian Schatz
- D Charles E. Schumer
- D Jeanne Shaheen
- D Kyrsten Sinema
- D Tina Smith
- D Debbie Stabenow
- D Jon Tester
- D Chris Van Hollen
- D Mark R. Warner
- D Raphael G. Warnock
- D Elizabeth Warren
- D Sheldon Whitehouse
- D Ron Wyden
- I Angus S. King, Jr.
- I Bernard Sanders
- R Susan M. Collins
- R Chuck Grassley
- R Cynthia M. Lummis