2026年7月14日 / 美国东部时间下午3:24 / 哥伦比亚广播公司新闻
作者：凯特琳·伊莱克 政治记者
凯特琳·伊莱克是哥伦比亚广播公司新闻网驻华盛顿特区的政治记者。她曾供职于《华盛顿考察家报》和《国会山报》，并入选2022年美国国家新闻基金会保罗·米勒华盛顿报道奖学金项目。
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华盛顿讯 —— 众议院周二终于打破了阻碍议会多数立法行动的僵局，此前共和党顽固派议员利用投票筹码，迫使参议院就特朗普总统的首要优先事项《拯救美国法案》采取行动。
参议院未能通过这项颇具争议的选举法案，令特朗普先生和众议院的强硬派议员感到沮丧，他们因此搁置了其他共和党优先立法事项。《拯救美国法案》要求联邦选举登记选民提供公民身份证明文件，并要求投票时出示带照片的身份证件，还包含其他多项限制性条款。
大多数持观望态度的议员周二作出了让步，允许按党派路线推进程序性投票。此次投票将为一系列法案的辩论和最终表决铺平道路，其中包括一项为国务院提供资金的年度拨款法案。众议院议长、路易斯安那州共和党议员迈克·约翰逊计划将《拯救美国法案》附加到该法案中，之后再提交给参议院。
上个月，强硬派议员否决了约翰逊提出的一项类似计划，该计划原本会将选举法案与年度国防政策法案——即《国防授权法案》——合并，之后再提交参议院。
佛罗里达州共和党众议员安娜·波莉娜·卢娜是众议院推动《拯救美国法案》的牵头人，她周一表示，只要选举法案能“附加到所有拨款法案和所有必须通过的法案”上，她就会支持约翰逊的最新计划。
“如果约翰·图恩在参议院移除该法案，那责任将由他承担，整个国家都应该关注他的所作所为，”她说道。
众议院共和党人试图迫使参议院通过这项选举法案的策略，在国会山几乎注定会胎死腹中，因为《拯救美国法案》甚至连参议院的简单多数支持都无法获得。自2024年以来，众议院已通过三版该法案，但全部都在参议院停滞不前。
尽管约翰逊在《拯救美国法案》问题上安抚了保守派议员，但他还面临着另一重障碍：一些议员推动就一项边境管控法案进行表决。该法案于2023年在众议院获得通过，但从未在参议院得到表决机会。
共和党领导人将当天的首轮投票推迟了约一小时，期间约翰逊与强硬派议员在院内展开了激烈讨论，议长试图为后续打破僵局的投票争取支持。
得克萨斯州共和党众议员奇普·罗伊拒绝透露约翰逊为拉拢他和其他保守派议员推进程序性投票，在边境安全问题上达成了哪些具体协议。
“我们在我此前公开提及的边境安全、出生公民权以及其他议题上取得了进展，”他说。“下周我们将以某种形式推进一项法案。”
“这足以让我们表示将以诚意向前推进，”罗伊说道。
由于共和党在众议院占据的多数席位十分微薄，众议院领导人不得不多次取消投票，这让普通议员拥有了更大的权力，可以搁置立法事务直至他们的要求得到满足。这场混乱导致众议院在下周五开始的为期五周的休会前，几乎没有时间处理其他立法优先事项。
“我们的众议院运作失灵，”内布拉斯加州共和党众议员唐·培根说道。“共和党人目前在众议院属于少数派。我们有大约10到20名议员自成一派。他们可能会与共和党党团一起开会，但往往会投票反对共和党。”
House GOP leaders break logjam on the floor after conservative revolt
July 14, 2026 / 3:24 PM EDT / CBS News
By Caitlin Yilek Politics Reporter
Caitlin Yilek is a politics reporter at CBSNews.com, based in Washington, D.C. She previously worked for the Washington Examiner and The Hill, and was a member of the 2022 Paul Miller Washington Reporting Fellowship with the National Press Foundation.
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Washington — The House on Tuesday finally broke an impasse that had stalled most legislative action on the floor as GOP holdouts sought to leverage their votes to force the Senate to act on President Trump’s top priority, the SAVE America Act.
The Senate’s inability to pass the controversial voting and elections bill has frustrated Mr. Trump and hardliners in the House, who have held up other GOP priorities in response. The SAVE America Act would require proof of citizenship documentation to register to vote in federal elections and photo ID requirements to vote, among other restrictions.
Most holdouts relented on Tuesday, allowing a party-line procedural vote to move forward. The vote tees up debate and final votes on a handful of bills, including an annual appropriations bill to fund the State Department. House Speaker Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, plans to attach the SAVE America Act to that legislation before sending it to the Senate.
Last month, hardliners blocked a similar plan from Johnson, which would have merged the elections bill with the annual defense policy bill, known as the National Defense Authorization Act, before it went to the Senate.
GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida, who has led the charge in the lower chamber for the SAVE America Act, said Monday that she would go along with Johnson’s latest plan, as long as the elections bill is attached to “all the appropriation bills and all must-pass bills.”
“If John Thune strips it out in the Senate that will be on him and the entire country should be watching what he does,” she said.
The House GOP’s gambit to force the Senate to pass the elections bill is certain to be dead on arrival across the Capitol, where the SAVE America Act lacks even a simple majority of support. Since 2024, the House has passed three versions of the bill, and all have stalled in the upper chamber.
Though Johnson appeased conservatives on the SAVE America Act, he also faced obstacles with members who are pushing for a vote on a border crackdown bill, which passed the House in 2023 but never got a vote in the Senate.
GOP leaders held open the first vote of the day for about an hour as Johnson and hardliners engaged in a heated discussion on the floor as the speaker tried to shore up support on the subsequent vote that would unlock the gridlock.
GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas declined to give specifics about what Johnson agreed to on border security to sway him and other conservatives to advance the procedural measure.
“We made progress on the areas that I’ve been public about on border security, birthright, other issues,” he said. “We’re moving a bill next week in some form or fashion.”
“It was enough to say we’ll move forward in good faith,” Roy said.
House leaders have repeatedly had to cancel votes as they navigate a narrow majority, which gives more power to rank-and-file members to stall legislative business until their demands are met. The chaos has left the lower chamber with little time to work through other legislative priorities ahead of its five-week recess, which begins at the end of next week.
“We have a dysfunctional House,” GOP Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska said. “The Republicans are the minority in the House right now. We have about 10, 20 people who are potentially their own party. They maybe caucus with Republicans, but more often than not, they vote against Republicans.”
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