Bills /
Crypto corruption ban (Merkley amendment)
- What it does
- Would have made it illegal for the President, Vice President, members of Congress, Senate-confirmed officials, and their spouses and children to own, control, promote for pay, or be affiliated with a crypto issuer or custodian.
- What happened
- A motion to waive a budget point of order failed 47–53 in June 2025, and the amendment was ruled out of order.
- Tracked as
- Yea = pro-protection. Officials profiting from coins they can move with policy is a rug-pull risk. A yes vote is pro-protection. Procedural (a budget waiver), so half weight if this track is ever scored. Rug-pull guard vote: not part of Bags Risk.
Senate · Jun 30, 2025
47pro-protection (Yea)D 45 · R 0 · I 2
53against protection (Nay)D 0 · R 53 · I 0
0not voting / present
Every vote
pro-protection
- D Angela D. Alsobrooks
- D Tammy Baldwin
- D Michael F. Bennet
- D Richard Blumenthal
- D Lisa Blunt Rochester
- D Cory A. Booker
- D Maria Cantwell
- D Christopher A. Coons
- D Catherine Cortez Masto
- D Tammy Duckworth
- D Richard J. Durbin
- D John Fetterman
- D Ruben Gallego
- 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 Andy Kim
- D Amy Klobuchar
- D Ben Ray Luján
- D Edward J. Markey
- 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 Adam B. Schiff
- D Charles E. Schumer
- D Jeanne Shaheen
- D Elissa Slotkin
- D Tina Smith
- D Chris Van Hollen
- D Mark R. Warner
- D Raphael G. Warnock
- D Elizabeth Warren
- D Peter Welch
- D Sheldon Whitehouse
- D Ron Wyden
- I Angus S. King, Jr.
- I Bernard Sanders
against protection
- R Jim Banks
- R John Barrasso
- R Marsha Blackburn
- R John Boozman
- R Katie Boyd Britt
- R Ted Budd
- R Shelley Moore Capito
- R Bill Cassidy
- R Susan M. Collins
- R John Cornyn
- R Tom Cotton
- R Kevin Cramer
- R Mike Crapo
- R Ted Cruz
- R John R. Curtis
- R Steve Daines
- R Joni Ernst
- R Deb Fischer
- R Lindsey Graham
- R Chuck Grassley
- R Bill Hagerty
- R Josh Hawley
- R John Hoeven
- R Jon Husted
- R Cindy Hyde-Smith
- R Ron Johnson
- R James C. Justice
- R John Kennedy
- R James Lankford
- R Mike Lee
- R Cynthia M. Lummis
- R Roger Marshall
- R Mitch McConnell
- R David McCormick
- R Ashley Moody
- R Jerry Moran
- R Bernie Moreno
- R Markwayne Mullin
- R Lisa Murkowski
- R Rand Paul
- R Pete Ricketts
- R James E. Risch
- R Mike Rounds
- R Eric Schmitt
- R Rick Scott
- R Tim Scott
- R Tim Sheehy
- R Dan Sullivan
- R John Thune
- R Thom Tillis
- R Tommy Tuberville
- R Roger F. Wicker
- R Todd Young