CLARITY Act’s biggest Senate vote could happen before the bill is actually finished

White House digital assets adviser Patrick Witt has reduced the Senate's immediate choice on the CLARITY Act to “get on the bill and let's keep talking.”The Sept. 15 vote is a cloture vote on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, scheduled to ripen at 2:15 p.m., according to the Senate floor schedule. Sixty votes would open debate and an amendment process.Four days before that procedural test, Republicans released EHF26718, proposed substitute text for CLARITY that adds a Commodity Futures Trading Commission framework for protocols that call themselves decentralized while remaining under an identifiable party's control.The change repairs part of the bill's regulatory architecture and gives negotiators a targeted response to concerns about DeFi and prediction markets.No senator who raised prediction market and Tribal-sovereignty concerns has publicly said the substitute changed their vote. Presidential crypto ethics and stablecoin rewards also remain active disputes.Republicans are patching the coalition's perimeter while leaving its decisive fights for another round of negotiations. Their immediate task is to persuade senators who may oppose today's text to preserve the process for c...