Watch the Clarity Act pass in the middle of the night cause you know the Senate worked so hard to get it done.
The Clarity Act is not dead.
Tillis switched his vote to no so he could enter a motion to reconsider. Under Senate rules, only someone on the winning side can do that. Because cloture failed, “no” was the prevailing side. That motion keeps the same cloture question alive instead of forcing leadership to file a new petition.
The bill is still on the Senate calendar. A motion to reconsider is not a second vote by itself, and nothing is automatically scheduled. It is a procedural hold-open: if leadership can find more votes, they can bring the same question back.