{"id":20088,"date":"2026-03-16T20:46:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-ready-to-move-on-elections-bill\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T20:46:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T20:46:39","slug":"senate-gop-ready-to-move-on-elections-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/senate-gop-ready-to-move-on-elections-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate GOP ready to move on elections bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso told reporters Monday the chamber will vote Tuesday to take up a House-passed elections bill known as the SAVE America Act.<\/p>\n<p>The Wyoming Republican, whose job it is to help round up support, said he is &#8220;doing everything I can to make sure we get on this bill tomorrow.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Republicans will need a simple majority to begin debate on the partisan legislation; they can lose three members and still let Vice President JD Vance break a tie.<\/p>\n<p>So far, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) has said he&#8217;s a &#8220;no,&#8221; while Republicans are also watching GOP Sens. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitch McConnell of Kentucky. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso told reporters Monday the chamber will vote Tuesday to take up a House-passed elections bill known as the SAVE America Act. The Wyoming Republican, whose job it is to help round up support, said he is &#8220;doing everything I can to make sure we get on this bill tomorrow.&#8221; Republicans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}