With Their Voter Bill Stymied, G.O.P. Leaders Ponder a Plan B

From the article: The SAVE America Act, which President Trump has declared his top legislative priority and the key to his party winning the midterm elections, may be beyond saving. After nearly two weeks of grinding it out on the Senate floor in a less-than-scintillating showdown, Republicans appear to be publicly acknowledging what was always clear to many of them: They do not have the votes to overcome united Democratic opposition to their legislation to place strict new requirements on voter registration, voter identification and mail-in balloting — and they do not expect the extended Senate floor debate to pay off with a victory. What is more, far from the theatrics of the all-out filibuster fight that many on the hard right had been clamoring for, Republicans have not managed to muster much in the way of politically explosive moments on the Senate floor as they seek to put Democrats on the spot on the bill. There have been no overnight sessions, no cots outside the Senate chamber and no exhausted lawmakers droning on for hours — though the Senate did stay in session last weekend in a demonstration of determination. Members of both parties have trooped to the floor to have their say on the bill in standard floor speeches, and a series of votes have so far ended in the expected party-line standoffs, with no breakthrough anywhere in sight. G.O.P. leaders now say they may try to dodge a Democratic filibuster by trying to squeeze the legislation through Congress using a special budget process, in what would amount to a procedural bank shot facing nearly impossible odds. The detour is alarming hard-right champions of the bill, who view it as a surrender to Democrats. They see little chance of success if Republicans resort to using complex filibuster-proof rules known as budget reconciliation to try to get the measure over the finish line. Those rules allow legislation to be pushed through on a majority vote but also require that any provisions meet specific budget goals, not policy objectives like those in what Republicans have dubbed the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act. “There are many things the Senate could pass with a simple majority using the procedure known as ‘budget reconciliation,’” Senator Mike Lee, the Utah Republican and chief proponent of the legislation, wrote on social media. “The SAVE America Act is *not* one of them.”

I am certain the one thing they will never consider is to actually do something good for people - to actually try to earn their support.

Is it “Enact good policies”?