Senate to vote on CLARITY Act for the first time on Tuesday

The full US Senate will vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act on Tuesday, September 15, marking the first time the chamber has taken a floor vote on comprehensive crypto market structure legislation. The procedural cloture vote, scheduled for 2:15 p.m. ET, requires 60 senators to agree the bill should advance to debate and amendments. That threshold is the whole ballgame. Republicans hold 53 seats, meaning Senate Majority Leader John Thune needs somewhere between 7 and 10 Democrats to cross the aisle, depending on whether any GOP members break ranks. If cloture fails, the CLARITY Act likely dies for the remainder of the congressional session, a victim of the compressed legislative calendar ahead of the midterm elections. A long road to the Senate floor The House passed its version of the bill, H.R. 3633, back in July 2025 with a decisive 294-134 bipartisan vote. The Senate Banking Committee then took up its own amended version, advancing the bill by a 15-9 vote in May 2026. Two Democratic senators, Ruben Gallego and Angela Alsobrooks, voted with the committee majority to push it forward, offering an early sign that the legislation could attract the kind of bipartisan support...