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Senate Hearings on bitcoin

Raffaela Wakeman
Monday, November 18, 2013, 3:05 PM
Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.

Panel I

  • Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony)
    Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S.
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Two hearings in one week on bitcoin. On Monday, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee held a hearing on virtual currencies.

Panel I

  • Jennifer Shasky Calvery (Testimony)
    Director, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, U.S. Department of the Treasury
  • Mythili Raman (Testimony)
    Acting Assistant Attorney General, Criminal Division, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Edward W. Lowery III (Testimony)
    Special Agent in Charge, Criminal Investigative Division, U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Panel II

  • Ernie Allen (Testimony)
    President and Chief Executive Officer, The International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children
  • Patrick Murck (Testimony)
    General Counsel, The Bitcoin Foundation, Inc.
  • Jeremy Allaire (Testimony)
    Chief Executive Officer, Circle Internet Financial, Inc.
  • Jerry Brito (Testimony)
    Senior Research Fellow, The Mercatus Center, George Mason University
On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and Finance, and the Subcommittee on Economic Policy, will hold a hearing. Here's the list of witnesses, and links to their testimony

Panel 1

  • Ms. Jennifer Shasky Calvery [view testimony] Director Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
  • Mr. David Cotney [view testimony] Commissioner of Banks Massachusetts Division of Banks

Panel 2

  • Mr. Anthony Gallippi [view testimony] Co-founder and CEO BitPay, Incorporated
  • Ms. Mercedes Kelley Tunstall [view testimony] Partner and Practice Leader, Privacy and Data Security Group Ballard Spahr LLP
  • Ms. Sarah Jane Hughes [view testimony] University Scholar and Fellow in Commercial Law Maurer School of Law, University of Indiana
  • Mr. Paul Smocer [view testimony] BITS President Financial Services Roundtable
[Update 11/19: the C-SPAN video from Monday's hearing has been added to this post, as has the second Senate hearing details.]
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Raffaela Wakeman is a Senior Director at In-Q-Tel. She started her career at the Brookings Institution, where she spent five years conducting research on national security, election reform, and Congress. During this time she was also the Associate Editor of Lawfare. From there, Raffaela practiced law at the U.S. Department of Defense for four years, advising her clients on privacy and surveillance law, cybersecurity, and foreign liaison relationships. She departed DoD in 2019 to join the Majority Staff of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, where she oversaw the Intelligence Community’s science and technology portfolios, cybersecurity, and surveillance activities. She left HPSCI in May 2021 to join IQT. Raffaela received her BS and MS in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2009 and her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in 2015, where she was recognized for her commitment to public service with the Joyce Chiang Memorial Award. While at the Department of Defense, she was the inaugural recipient of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s General Counsel Award for exhibiting the highest standards of leadership, professional conduct, and integrity.

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