The U.S. Senate is scheduled to hold a 2:15 p.m. cloture vote on September 15 on the CLARITY Act, a digital-asset market-structure bill, but passage remains uncertain. Cloture, a procedure to end debate, requires 60 votes. With at least two Republican senators expected to oppose the measure, supporters need at least nine Democratic votes. The main dispute concerns ethics provisions proposed in July by Republican Senator Thom Tillis and Democratic Senator Ruben Gallego. Their bipartisan compromise would bar federally elected officials and judges from issuing or endorsing digital assets and require them to divest related financial interests or place them in a blind trust. The White House has not responded to the proposal publicly or privately, according to the report. A recently released Republican amendment would revise decentralized finance, or DeFi (financial services without traditional intermediaries), provisions and expand credit unions’ authority to handle digital assets, but it would not change the disputed ethics language. Separately, the American Bankers Association and the Independent Community Bankers of America want changes to a stablecoin compensation provision, arguing that interest-like rewards could draw deposits away from community banks and reduce their lending capacity. Republican Senators Jerry Moran and Josh Hawley have indicated they could oppose the bill if the current language remains. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent supports advancing the legislation before continuing negotiations over disputed provisions, warning that failure could undermine perceptions of U.S. competitiveness in digital-asset regulation and its ability to combat crypto-related crime. Even if the Senate approves the bill, House scheduling presents another obstacle: the chamber has canceled voting sessions for the final two weeks of September, and both chambers are scheduled to recess in October. House consideration of the Senate amendment is therefore increasingly likely to move to the November lame-duck session.