Authored by Nathan Worcester via The Epoch Times(emphasis ours),
WASHINGTON—The Senate will hold a weekend session as it debates the SAVE America Act,a bill that would require citizenship verification and photo identification in federal elections.
President Donald Trump, who strongly backs the SAVE America Act, has called on lawmakers to add provisions banning men from women’s sports, outlawing gender-altering surgery in minors, and restricting mail-in voting.
The legislation made it out of the House on Feb. 11, where it was backed by Republicans and opposed by almost all Democrats.
The Senate initiateddebateon March 17, less than two weeks ahead of a scheduled recess.
Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) has opposed what some call the standing filibuster,citing misgivings from many of his GOP Senate colleagues about an approach that could, in theory, exhaust a filibuster of the SAVE America Act.
Senate Republicans are continuing a debate on the act even as they stare down the 60-vote filibuster threshold, a significant barrier given the current party breakdown in the upper chamber.
As the debate kicked off, Thune toldreporters, “How it ends remains to be seen.”
“There will be a point at which it will end, and there will be a series of votes that come with that,” he said.
Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) told reporters on March 20 that he would be glad to see the Senate stick around to debate the Iran War, but not because of the SAVE America Act, which he described as legislation that “everybody knows is not going to pass.”
Source: ZeroHedge News
