Senator Steve Daines has expressed his appreciation toward Beijing for encouraging Iran to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, as the US searches for an off-ramp to a nine-week war that’s roiled global energy markets

Here is the full list of votes for Clarity, you are are urged to vote accordingly! **CLARITY Act cloture — Sept. 15, 2026 — 49 Yes, 50 No, 1 Not Voting** Alsobrooks — No Baldwin — No Banks — Yes Barrasso — Yes Bennet — No Blackburn — Yes Blumenthal — No Blunt Rochester — No Booker — No Boozman — Yes Britt — Yes Budd — Yes Cantwell — No Capito — Yes Cassidy — Yes Collins — No Coons — Not voting Cornyn — Yes Cortez Masto — No Cotton — Yes Cramer — Yes Crapo — Yes Cruz — Yes Curtis — Yes Daines — Yes Duckworth — No Durbin — No Ernst — Yes Fetterman — No Fischer — Yes Gallego — No Gillibrand — No Graham — Yes Grassley — Yes Hagerty — Yes Hassan — No Hawley — No Heinrich — No Hickenlooper — No Hirono — No Hoeven — Yes Husted — Yes Hyde-Smith — Yes Johnson — Yes Justice — Yes Kaine — No Kelly — No Kennedy — Yes Kim — No King — No Klobuchar — No Lankford — Yes Lee — Yes Luján — No Lummis — Yes Markey — No Marshall — Yes McConnell — Yes McCormick — Yes Merkley — No Moody — Yes Moran — No Moreno — Yes Mullin — Yes Murkowski — Yes Murphy — No Murray — No Ossoff — No Padilla — No Paul — Yes Peters — No Reed — No Ricketts — Yes Risch — Yes Rosen — No Rounds — Yes Sanders — No Schatz — No Schiff — No Schmitt — Yes Schumer — No Scott (FL) — Yes Scott (SC) — Yes Shaheen — No Sheehy — Yes Slotkin — No Smith — No Sullivan — Yes Thune — Yes Tillis — No Tuberville — Yes Van Hollen — No Warner — No Warnock — No Warren — No Welch — No Whitehouse — No Wicker — Yes Wyden — No Young — Yes Full Senate clerk PDF is not posted yet. This is the complete 100-senator list matching the official Press Gallery result: 49–50, GOP nos Collins/Hawley/Moran/Tillis, Coons not voting, no Democratic yes votes.

The Trump-Xi State Dinner guest list, per the White House: U.S. + China leadership 🇺🇸 President Donald Trump 🇺🇸 First Lady Melania Trump 🇨🇳 President Xi Jinping 🇨🇳 Madame Peng Liyuan 🇺🇸 Vice President JD Vance 🇺🇸 Second Lady Usha Vance Trump administration Marco Rubio Scott Bessent Howard Lutnick Pete Hegseth Chris Wright Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Linda McMahon Doug Burgum Sean Duffy Susie Wiles Stephen Miller Steve Witkoff John Ratcliffe Russell Vought Lee Zeldin Kelly Loeffler Jamieson Greer David Perdue Chinese delegation Cai Qi Wang Yi He Lifeng Zheng Shanjie Wang Wentao Lan Fo’an Ma Zhaoxu Xie Feng Tang Fangyu Zhou Hongxu Lyu Luhua Hong Lei Cai Wei Mao Ning Zhang Yongchao Tech + AI Elon Musk, Tesla / SpaceX Jensen Huang, Nvidia Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Lisa Su, AMD Tim Cook, Apple Sam Altman, OpenAI Greg Brockman, OpenAI Sergey Brin, Google Sundar Pichai, Google Satya Nadella, Microsoft Jeff Bezos, Amazon Michael Dell, Dell Eric Yuan, Zoom Cristiano Amon, Qualcomm Sanjay Mehrotra, Micron David Ellison, Paramount Skydance Wall Street + finance Jamie Dimon, JPMorgan David Solomon, Goldman Sachs Jane Fraser, Citi Larry Fink, BlackRock Stephen Schwarzman, Blackstone Lynn Martin, NYSE John F.W. Rogers, Goldman Sachs Brad Gerstner, Altimeter Ryan McInerney, Visa Michael Miebach, Mastercard Jeff Yass Industry + consumer Mary Barra, General Motors Kelly Ortberg, Boeing Jim Taiclet, Lockheed Martin Larry Culp, GE Aerospace Darren Woods, ExxonMobil Albert Bourla, Pfizer Bernard Arnault, LVMH Alexandre Arnault Congress + judiciary Chief Justice John Roberts Justice Amy Coney Barrett Justice Brett Kavanaugh Speaker Mike Johnson Sen. Steve Daines Rep. Jason Smith Rep. Richard McCormick Media Bret Baier Laura Ingraham Jesse Watters Trump family + personal guests Ivanka Trump Eric Trump Lara Trump Tiffany Trump Michael Boulos Viktor Knavs Arabella Kushner Miriam Adelson David Sacks Meredith O’Rourke