The Senate returns Sept 14 with cloture already filed. Will it pass the crypto CLARITY Act before Sept 18?

The U.S. Senate failed to advance the CLARITY Act on September 15, 2026, when a cloture vote to end debate came up short of the 60 votes needed, blocking the crypto market-structure bill before the September 18 deadline. The tally fell short after four Republicans, Jerry Moran, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Thom Tillis, joined nearly all Democrats in voting no, according to CNBC and CoinDesk. The bill stalled primarily over new ethics restrictions on public officials' crypto holdings that Republican leaders had added to the text just days earlier to address Democratic concerns about officials profiting from crypto ventures, rather than over the underlying SEC and CFTC market-structure framework the industry had sought. A bloc of Democrats who had spent months negotiating the bill's provisions, including Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Warner and Cory Booker, ultimately voted against advancing it, leaving the legislation without a near-term path forward. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies dipped as the vote played out. The failure marked a setback for a crypto industry that had lobbied heavily for a comprehensive federal regulatory framework in 2026. A large majority of the Predict Six community, 70%, correctly predicted the bill would not pass by September 18.