WASHINGTON, March 20 -- Sen. John Thune issued the following press release:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) today delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:
Thune's remarks below (as delivered):
"Mr. President, I said at the beginning of this debate that I was going to use the word commonsense a lot.
"And that's because the SAVE America Act unites a bunch of commonsense policies: the kind of things that are just intuitively obvious, or at least they should be, and should be getting 80 to 90 votes - or more! - here in the Senate.
"I've talked at length this week about commonsense election policies like showing a photo ID at the polls - and demonstrating that you're an American citizen (in other words, eligible ...