Majority Leader Thune files cloture on Clarity Act, setting up Sept. 15 Senate vote
Quick TakeShortly before the Senate left for its August recess, Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture on the motion to proceed to the Clarity Act early Saturday.The Senate is set to vote on the motion on Tuesday, Sept. 15, the day after the body returns.Invoking cloture, which does not pass the bill, takes 60 votes; negotiators have yet to resolve disputes over ethics clauses, illicit finance, and how Senate Agriculture Committee text gets folded in. Senate Majority Leader John Thune filed cloture early Saturday on the motion to proceed to debate over the Clarity Act, giving the crypto market structure bill a path to the floor when lawmakers return from their August recess next month. Thune (R-S.D.) filed the motion at 4:52 a.m. ET, according to the Senate Press Gallerys floor log, at the end of an overnight session that ran past the chambers scheduled Friday departure. Thune first filed cloture on the nomination of Matthew R. Byrne to be a federal district judge in Ohio and then on the motion to proceed to H.R. 3633, the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act. The gallery lists a 5:30 p.m. cloture vote Monday on the Byrne nomination. Under an agreement reached by the Senate









