{"id":130499,"date":"2026-01-24T17:17:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130499\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T17:17:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T17:17:09","slug":"rick-scott-calls-for-standing-filibuster-as-fate-of-save-act-hangs-in-suspense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130499\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott calls for standing filibuster as fate of SAVE Act hangs in suspense"},"content":{"rendered":"

A reform of election laws intended to keep non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections is stalled in the Senate currently, leading one Florida Republican to call for his colleagues to keep talking until Democrats cave and allow a floor vote.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever we do this, all right? Whether it\u2019s part of the spending bill this week, whether it\u2019s a separate bill, whether we have to stay there, you know, and do a standing filibuster, whatever it\u2019s gonna take. We got to get this passed. We\u2019ve got to secure elections. (There) cannot be another election, and we\u2019re worried about whether there\u2019s gonna be fraud in the election,\u201d Rick Scott<\/a> said Saturday.<\/p>\n

While Scott is confident he can count on his 53 Republican colleagues to back the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act<\/a>, which has already passed the House of Representatives on party lines, the Senate\u2019s 60-vote cloture rule means the measure may not see a floor vote unless Republicans are willing to wear down opposition.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s make everybody stay there and talk and have the standing filibuster. I know it\u2019s going to be a lot of work, but that\u2019s what we ought to start with, and see if the Democrats want to do this,\u201d Scott said Saturday morning on Fox News.<\/p>\n

The SAVE Act requires aspirant voters to provide documentary proof of being American citizens, and for states to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.<\/p>\n

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Scott, like many in his party, believes this is key to national security.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got to secure our elections, we\u2019ve got to secure ourselves from all the fraud. We got to secure our border. There\u2019s a lot of things we have to secure in this country, but it starts with having a secure election,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The Naples Republican, currently in his second term, says that in Canada, France, and the United Kingdom, non-citizens can\u2019t vote, and believes this standard should be applied federally.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe don\u2019t get to vote in another country. Why are people from another country getting to vote in our country? It\u2019s common sense,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A reform of election laws intended to keep non-citizens from voting in U.S. elections is stalled in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130500,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,3856,64317,64318],"class_list":["post-130499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-rick-scott","tag-safeguard-american-voter-eligibility-act","tag-save-act"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130500"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}