Will the CLARITY Act Pass on Tuesday? Senate Democrats Meet Tonight and Republicans Need Nine of Them

Senate Democrats huddle tonight to decide whether nine of them will give Republicans the votes needed just to start debating crypto's biggest regulatory overhaul in years, and neither side has shown its hand yet.

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The Senate votes on cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633 at 2:15pm ET on Tuesday, September 15, 2026. Cloture ends a filibuster and lets the chamber start debating a bill, and it takes 60 votes. Republicans hold 53 seats, at least two are expected to vote no, and that leaves the majority nine Democrats or independents short.

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer is convening his caucus on the evening of September 13. President Trump met his advisers on September 11 to work through the ethics language, and no revised text has circulated since. So do the Democrats have nine yes votes in the room?

The CLARITY Act Needs 60 Senators Just to Start Debate

Tuesday’s cloture is on the motion to proceed, which is the question of whether the Senate takes the bill up at all. It is not a vote on H.R. 3633, and it is not a vote on the substitute text. Debate on the text begins only after the chamber agrees to proceed, and amendments come after that.