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S 8518Imposes an excise tax on energy used in digital asset mining using proof-of-work authentication methods

Congress · introduced 2025-10-01

Imposes an excise tax on any taxpayer engaged in the trade or business of digital asset mining; provides that taxes, interest, and penalties collected or received from such taxes shall be used for prompt assistance to utility customers enrolled in energy affordability programs.

Latest action: 2026-01-07 IN_SENATE_COMM

Sponsors

Action timeline

  1. · senate REFERRED TO RULES
  2. · senate REFERRED TO ENERGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS

Text versions

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Inbound (6)

datefromtypeamountrolesource
2025-10-01Liz Kruegersponsor_of_billsponsorsponsorship
2025-10-01Andrew Gounardescosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-10-01Gustavo Riveracosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-10-01Rachel Maycosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-10-01Cordell Clearecosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship
2025-10-01Samra Broukcosponsor_of_billcosponsorsponsorship

Who matters

Members ranked by combined influence on this bill: role (sponsor 5 / cosponsor 1), capped speech count from the Congressional Record, and recorded-vote engagement.

#MemberRoleSpeechesVotedScore
1Liz Krueger (, state_upper NY-28)sponsor05
2Andrew Gounardes (, state_upper NY-26)cosponsor01
3Cordell Cleare (, state_upper NY-30)cosponsor01
4Gustavo Rivera (, state_upper NY-33)cosponsor01
5Rachel May (, state_upper NY-48)cosponsor01
6Samra Brouk (, state_upper NY-55)cosponsor01

Predicted vote

Aggregated from: actual roll-call votes (when present) → sponsor → cosponsor → party median (predicts YES when ≥25% of the caucus sponsored/cosponsored). Each row labels its confidence tier so you can see why a position was predicted.

0 predicted yes (0%) · 543 predicted no (100%) · 0 unknown (0%)

By party: · R: 0 yes / 277 no · D: 0 yes / 263 no · I: 0 yes / 3 no

Activity

Every typed-graph event involving this entity, newest first. Each row is one edge in the influence graph; click the date to jump to its provenance.

  1. 2025-10-01 · cosponsored by Samra Brouk (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  2. 2025-10-01 · sponsored by Liz Krueger (sponsor) · sponsorship
  3. 2025-10-01 · cosponsored by Cordell Cleare (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  4. 2025-10-01 · cosponsored by Rachel May (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  5. 2025-10-01 · cosponsored by Andrew Gounardes (cosponsor) · sponsorship
  6. 2025-10-01 · cosponsored by Gustavo Rivera (cosponsor) · sponsorship

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