When we get back, though, we are going to have to do something on election integrity. We tried again this week to get that done. Democrats again, every single one of them, even on something as simple as driver’s license IDs, showing your ID to vote… they were against it full force. I think they’ve made it clear. They want the ability to have insecure elections because that somehow advantages them. The American public hates this; we have got to do something about it. I think we’re going to have to move into a different type of vehicle or reconciliation vehicle to make that happen. And that’s what we are going to have on top of the agenda when we get back.
Put election integrity legislation at the top of the Senate agenda when the Senate returns and use another legislative vehicle, potentially reconciliation, to advance it.
Occurrences
Evidence
legacy_unverified · Source version not recorded · locator unknown
Hagerty said the week ahead in the Senate included the SAVE America Act, and that Republicans needed to use the budget reconciliation process, take tough votes, and give their best effort to get it done.
unverified · Source version 63855 · locator unknown
The Senate voted on cloture on the motion to proceed to S. 5271, a bill to amend HAVA to require photo identification; cloture was rejected 52-46, and Hagerty voted yea.
Assessments
Hagerty materially pushed the election-integrity issue during his current Senate term: he publicly prioritized the SAVE America Act, discussed reconciliation or another vehicle as a path, and voted yea on cloture to proceed to S. 5271, a voter-ID/HAVA bill. But the Senate cloture vote failed 52-46, and the record provided does not show that the promised alternate vehicle or reconciliation path actually advanced the legislation to passage or otherwise delivered the full procedural outcome. This supports partial credit for same-term agenda-setting and attempted advancement, not full delivery.