WRECK America Act

Roll Call -   Even as leaders now turn to deploying the arduous budgetary maneuver known as reconciliation to try to pass portions of the bill, senators still plan to resume floor attention on what they call the SAVE America Act when they come back from recess in mid-April.

This wasn’t exactly the 24/7 full-court press that influencers on the right had called for. They wanted to see Senate Majority Leader John Thune force a so-called talking filibuster to skirt a 60-vote threshold on the bill, which aims to make Americans show a photo ID at the polls and prove citizenship when registering to vote.

A gambit like that would have risked handing control to Democrats and would have been impossible to sustain, Thune has said. Instead, the extended debate that began on March 17 is meant to appease the loudest voices and show that Senate Republicans are taking it seriously, even if final passage is unlikely.