周二，共和党议员们闭门集会，试图为《保障美国选民资格法案》（SAVE America Act）规划前进道路。该法案是一项经过修订的选举完整性立法，长期以来在国会中被搁置。
由三位强硬派保守派人士——犹他州参议员迈克·李（Mike Lee）、威斯康星州参议员罗恩·约翰逊（Ron Johnson）和佛罗里达州参议员里克·斯科特（Rick Scott）——共同推动的这项立法，并要求参议院对其进行审议。
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默科斯基与共和党在选民ID问题上分道扬镳，称此举“并非建立信任之道”
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犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李（Mike Lee）正在推动参议院通过选民ID立法，并提出了共和党人可以采取的多种途径。（Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images）
据参会议员描述，李议员在会上慷慨陈词，呼吁推进该法案。该法案要求选民出示身份证明，登记时必须亲自证明公民身份，并指示各州将非公民从选民名单中移除。
“参议院里没有一件事是容易推进的，”李议员在会后表示，“这件事当然也不例外。但如果我们想做这件事，就必须这样做。”
事实上，参议院民主党人不会支持这项立法。这意味着，目前60票的阻挠议事门槛是难以逾越的障碍。
共和党人与特朗普在选民ID法案上遭遇参议院阻碍
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怀俄明州共和党参议院多数党党鞭约翰·巴雷索（John Barrasso）希望共和党人继续推动选民ID立法，并指出在日常生活中出示身份证明的普遍性。（Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images）
怀俄明州共和党参议院多数党党鞭约翰·巴雷索告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，共和党人将继续强调选民ID问题的合理性，因为在日常生活的多个方面，身份证明的使用极为普遍。
“乘坐飞机需要带照片的身份证件。在橄榄球比赛上想买杯啤酒？你也需要带照片的身份证件。去图书馆，几乎做任何事情都需要照片身份证件，”巴雷索说，“现在你看到民主党人要求在他们参加的任何会议上都要有照片身份证件，我们在佐治亚州就看到了这种情况。”
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但民主党人的反对以及温和派共和党议员莉萨·默科斯基（Lisa Murkowski）对该立法的否决，使得李议员等人向同僚们提出了两个选择——废除阻挠议事规则或转而采用“站席式”阻挠议事（即传统的冗长辩论）。
参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩（John Thune）立即对前者泼了冷水。
舒默在特朗普支持的停摆套餐中否决共和党“吉姆·克劳时代”的选民ID法律
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佛罗里达州共和党参议员里克·斯科特（Rick Scott）表示，所有选项都在考虑之中，包括采用原始版本的阻挠议事规则来通过选民ID立法。（Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images）
“不仅仅是我不愿意这么做。根本没有接近足够的票数——甚至一点都不接近——来废除阻挠议事规则，”图恩说，“所以这个想法虽然还在被提及，但没有未来。”
“那么有没有其他方法可以达到目的？我们拭目以待。”
特朗普在其第二任期内一直要求参议院共和党人废除阻挠议事规则，而共和党人目前正考虑转向“站席式”阻挠议事——这是在现代60票门槛出现前就存在的一种阻挠手段。
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现代阻挠议事规则比“站席式”阻挠议事更容易启动，后者要求议员们在参议院进行辩论。这种方式可能会使参议院瘫痪数百小时。
斯科特告诉福克斯新闻数字频道，在会议期间，他的同僚们“开始理解”“站席式”阻挠议事的含义，但也指出并非所有人都已达成共识。
“我认为我们应该考虑所有选项，无论是‘站席式’阻挠议事还是其他方式，以确保选举安全，”斯科特说，“所以，我不会放弃。”
亚历克斯·米勒（Alex Miller）是福克斯新闻数字频道的记者，负责报道美国参议院事务。
Senate Republicans face long odds in advancing voter ID legislation, but they’re not backing down.
Huddled behind closed doors on Tuesday, GOP lawmakers attempted to chart a path forward on the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act, a revamped version of election integrity legislation that has long gathered dust in Congress.
A trio of hardliner conservatives — Sens. Mike Lee of Utah, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin and Rick Scott of Florida — have championed the legislation and demanded it be considered in the upper chamber.
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MURKOWSKI BREAKS WITH GOP ON VOTER ID, SAYS PUSH ‘IS NOT HOW WE BUILD TRUST’
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Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, is leading the push in the Senate to pass voter ID legislation and is pitching multiple paths that Republicans could take to do it.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
Lee gave what lawmakers who attended the meeting described as an impassioned plea to move ahead with the bill, which would require voters to show identification, mandate in-person proof of citizenship when registering and direct states to remove noncitizens from voter rolls.
“Nothing in the Senate’s an easy move,” Lee said after the meeting. “This one’s certainly not. But if we want to do this, this is how we have to go about it.”
Indeed, Senate Democrats won’t support the legislation. That means the 60-vote filibuster threshold is, for now, an impossible barrier to breach.
REPUBLICANS, TRUMP RUN INTO SENATE ROADBLOCK ON VOTER ID BILL
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Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., wants Republicans to keep pressing for voter ID legislation and noted how prevalent showing ID is in everyday life.(Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital that Republicans would continue to press the voter ID issue as common sense, given how prevalent identification is across several aspects of daily life.
“To get on an airplane you need a photo ID. You want to buy a beer at a football game? You need a photo ID. Go to the library, you need a photo ID for just about everything,” Barrasso said. “And now you see Democrats are demanding photo IDs to go to any meetings that they have, and we just saw that in Georgia.”
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But Democratic resistance and moderate GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s rejection of the legislation leave two options, which Lee and others pitched to their colleagues — nuke the filibuster or turn to the standing, or talking, filibuster.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., immediately threw cold water on the former.
SCHUMER NUKES GOP PUSH FOR ‘JIM CROW-ERA’ VOTER ID LAWS IN TRUMP-BACKED SHUTDOWN PACKAGE
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Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said all options were on the table to pass voter ID legislation, including turning to the original version of the filibuster.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“It’s not just me not being willing to do it. There aren’t anywhere close to the votes — not even close — to nuking the filibuster,” Thune said. “And so that idea is something, although it continues to be put out there, is something that doesn’t have a future.
“So is there another way of getting there? We’ll see.”
In lieu of nuking the filibuster, which Trump has asked Senate Republicans to do throughout his second term, the GOP is considering turning to the standing filibuster, which existed before the modern 60-vote threshold.
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The modern filibuster is less strenuous than the standing filibuster, which requires lawmakers to debate on the floor. That route could paralyze the upper chamber for hundreds of hours.
Scott told Fox News Digital that during the meeting his colleagues were “starting to understand” the standing filibuster but noted that not everyone was on board yet.
“I think we ought to look at all of our options to get it passed, whether it’s the talking filibuster or whatever it is, to make sure elections are secure,” Scott said. “So, I’m not going to give up.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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