“这是偏执的幻想，”犹他州共和党参议员迈克·李（Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah）告诉《福克斯新闻数字版》（Fox News Digital）。”这些论点很荒谬。他们提出这些论点应该感到羞耻。”
李的回应是针对参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.）的言论，舒默加倍坚持认为《保障美国选民资格法案》（Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act）是”吉姆·克劳法2.0版”。
[图恩保证选民ID法案将在参议院投票，尽管舒默和民主党反对：’我们会进行投票’]
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该法案上周在众议院通过，由李在参议院提出并大力推动，将要求在联邦选举中投票时出示带照片的身份证件，登记时提供公民身份证明，并要求各州清除选民名单中的不符合资格的选民。
舒默和他的党团计划阻挠该法案，认为这是压制选民的工具，会对较贫困的美国人和少数族裔造成不成比例的伤害。
但李辩称，在日常生活中提供身份或公民身份证明是常规操作——无论是接受背景调查购买枪支，还是在开始新工作时填写纳税表。
[柯林斯支持共和党选民ID努力，但不会废除阻挠议事规则]
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“按照他们的逻辑，要求某人在为新雇主工作前证明公民身份是吉姆·克劳法，这简直是疯了，”李说。
“然后他们在这里辩称，投票是如此根本的权利，我们有宪法保护来保障我们的投票权，”他继续说道。”嗯，我们有宪法保护来保障我们携带武器的权利，但这并没有让我们免除证明自己的身份和购买枪支的资格。这简直是疯了。”
然而，没有民主党人的支持，将该立法提交给唐纳德·特朗普总统签署的途径就变得复杂起来。
[共和党在参议院斗争临近之际达到关键的50票门槛，以推进特朗普支持的选民ID法案]
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参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩（John Thune, R-S.D.）誓言将把《保障美国选民资格法案》提交至参议院进行表决，共和党人有足够的票数通过其首个关键的程序性障碍。之后，民主党人可以通过需要60票的阻挠议事来阻止该法案，李经常将这种阻挠议事称为”僵尸”阻挠议事。
对李的几位同事来说，废除阻挠议事是不可能的，但共和党人正倾向于恢复”辩论式”或”站立式”阻挠议事，这将要求参议院民主党人在数小时的辩论中在参议院 floor 上提出反对该法案的理由。
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特朗普已经暗示，如果该立法未能通过，他将发布行政命令，李表示在首先确切知道具体会采取什么行动之前，他不愿对此进行猜测。
但他指出，鉴于华盛顿哥伦比亚特区不断摇摆的政治倾向，通过《保障美国选民资格法案》尤为重要。
“通过这项法律仍然非常关键，因为假设他发布了这样的命令，并且它做了大部分或全部我们在这里需要做的事情，那将在某种程度上保护我们，无论他能够通过行政行动做到什么程度，”李说。”但我们需要一项比他在任期间更持久的法律。”
亚历克斯·米勒（Alex Miller）是《福克斯新闻数字版》（Fox News Digital）的撰稿人，报道美国参议院新闻。
Senate Democrats have panned the GOP’s push for voter ID legislation as akin to segregationist laws from the Deep South, but the architect of the bill in the Senate says their arguments are detached from reality.
“It’s paranoid fantasy,” Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital. “These are absurd arguments. They should be ashamed to make them.”
Lee was responding to comments from Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who has doubled down on his claim that the Safeguarding American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) America Act is “Jim Crow 2.0.”
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The bill, which passed the House last week and has been introduced and championed by Lee in the Senate, would require photo ID to vote in federal elections, proof of citizenship to register and would mandate that states keep voter rolls clear of ineligible voters.
Schumer and his caucus plan to block the bill, arguing that it is a tool of voter suppression that would disproportionately harm poorer Americans and minority groups.
But Lee argued that providing identification or proof of citizenship is routine in everyday life — whether undergoing a background check to buy a firearm or filling out tax forms when starting a new job.
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“By their logic, it’s Jim Crow to require somebody to establish citizenship before taking a job with a new employer, and that’s insane,” Lee said.
“And so then they argue here, well, voting is so fundamental, and we have constitutional protections protecting our right to vote,” he continued. “Well, we’ve got constitutional protections protecting our right to bear arms, and yet that doesn’t cause us to dispense with proving who you are and your eligibility to buy a gun. This has just been insane.”
Without Democratic support, however, the pathway to sending the legislation to President Donald Trump’s desk is complicated.
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Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., has vowed to bring the SAVE America Act to the floor, and Republicans have the votes to move it through its first key procedural hurdle. From there, Democrats can block it with the 60-vote filibuster, which Lee often refers to as the “zombie” filibuster.
Eliminating the filibuster is out of the question for several of Lee’s colleagues, but Republicans are warming to reinstating a talking, or standing, filibuster, which would require Senate Democrats to make their case against the bill on the floor over hours of debate.
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Trump has already suggested he would issue an executive order if the legislation fails, which Lee declined to speculate on without first knowing what exactly would be done.
But he noted that it was all the more reason to pass the SAVE America Act, given the ever-swinging political pendulum in Washington, D.C.
“It’s still really critically important that we pass this law, because let’s assume that he issued such an order, and that it does most or all of what we needed to do here, that gives us protection for the moment, to whatever degree he’s able to do that through an executive action,” Lee said. “But we need something that can last longer than he’s in office.”
Alex Miller is a writer for Fox News Digital covering the U.S. Senate.
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