Senate Republicans are making another push to pass the SAVE America Act, the voter ID and proof-of-citizenship bill, before the current Congress runs out of time. The effort comes days after the midterm elections and weeks before lawmakers leave Washington for the year.
“I’ve been fighting for over two years to get the SAVE/SAVE America Act passed in the Senate,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) wrote Sunday on X. “We have two months to get it done. Every candidate for a leadership job must commit to passing it. Failure is not an option.”
The House passed the SAVE America Act in February. The bill has sat stalled in the Senate ever since, blocked by the filibuster. Republicans still hold the chamber but lack the 60 votes needed to advance the measure, and a group of Republican holdouts refused to eliminate the filibuster earlier in this Congress.
Despite the current push, Senate Majority Leader John Thune says forcing a talking filibuster is off the table, even though Democrats are promising to eliminate the filibuster when they’re back in the majority.