GOP Uses Voter ID Push, Shutdown to Press for Filibuster Fight

Republicans are standing by their push to change the Senate’s filibuster rule to pass legislation requiring voter ID in federal elections even after Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) shot it down.

GOP backers of changing the filibuster say Democrats are using the Senate’s signature 60-vote threshold to prolong the shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security and keep their elections bill from becoming law.

“There’s no negotiation,” Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-Okla.) said on social media Tuesday about the shutdown. “This is why we have to talk about doing away with the filibuster.”

Democrats sent over a new counteroffer to the ...