{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.husted.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senate-votes-on-husted-photo-id-bill/", "Senate votes on Husted photo ID bill", "2026-08-08", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "OH", "Jon Husted", "H001104", "www.husted.senate.gov", "husted", "https://www.husted.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cSo tonight, I\u2019m asking my colleagues to answer one simple question: should you have to prove who you are when you vote?\u201d\n\nView Husted\u2019s remarks here.\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 The Senate today voted on Sen. Jon Husted\u2019s (R-Ohio) bill to require voters to show photo ID at the polls.\n\nSenate Democrats blocked the bill from reaching the 60-vote threshold needed to advance, with a final vote of 52-46.\n\nAs the only Republican Senator with experience as serving as Secretary of State, Husted is leading the effort to implement nationwide photo ID requirements, something more than 80% of Americans support.\n\nWith 23 states\u2014including Ohio\u2014already requesting voters present photo ID, Husted supports establishing a photo ID requirement to secure American elections.\n\nHusted\u2019s bill would\u2019ve allowed Americans to vote by showing one of the following five forms of identification: state issued driver\u2019s license, state issued ID, U.S. passport, military or veterans ID with a picture and an expiration date or a tribal ID with a picture and an expiration date.\n\nHusted spoke on his bill prior to the vote. His remarks include:\n\n\u201cUsing a photo ID to vote is common sense.\n\n\u201cIt\u2019s an issue Americans broadly support.\u201d\n\n. . .\n\n\u201cSo tonight, this early morning, I\u2019m offering a clean, simple, straightforward bill to require a photo ID to vote in America.\n\n\u201cVoters can use a driver\u2019s license, a state issued ID, passport, military or veteran\u2019s ID, or tribal ID.\n\n\u201cNo additional restrictions, no tricks, no games, no prohibitions on absentee voting.\u201d\n\n. . .\n\n\u201cPhoto ID laws have been tested in elections across this country and they work.\u201d\n\n. . .\n\n\u201cSo tonight, I\u2019m asking my colleagues to answer one simple question: should you have to prove who you are when you vote?\n\n\u201cAmericans think we should and tonight we will find out if their senators agree.\u201d\n\n. . .\n\n\u201cI urge my colleagues to vote yes on this bill, to establish a nationwide photo ID standard, and give Americans better run, honest, and fair elections.\u201d", 1, "2026-08-09T05:47:57Z", "2026-08-09T05:49:40Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.husted.senate.gov/media/press-releases/senate-votes-on-husted-photo-id-bill/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8140616118907928, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}