参议院民主党人阻止了共和党人试图解决这两项对选民至关重要的问题的努力。
Senate Democrats shut down Republicans’ bid to deal with two key issues for voters heading into the midterms.
共和党人曾试图通过一项法案，该法案旨在同时解决两个政策问题：禁止立法者利用内幕信息进行股票交易，以及在全国范围内推行选民身份验证制度（但共和党至今仍未能通过他们的《拯救美国法案》来实现这一目标）。
Republicans tried and failed to pass a bill that would marry differing policy issues: banning lawmakers from using their insider knowledge to trade stocks and implementing voter ID policy nationwide — the latter of which the GOP has so far failed to accomplish with their SAVE America Act.
《禁止内幕交易法案》本月早些时候在众议院获得通过，不过大多数民主党议员投了反对票。尽管选民们普遍支持这两项措施，但众议院和参议院的民主党人认为：禁止股票交易的条款力度不够强，而选民身份验证制度的实施措施则过于激进。
The Stop Insider Trading Act cruised through the House earlier this month, where a majority of House Democrats voted against it. Though voters are highly supportive of both, Democrats in the House and Senate argued that the stock trade ban wasn’t strong enough, while the voter ID element was too aggressive.
这种阻止投票的行为似乎反映了当前政治局势的普遍趋势——在11月的中期选举前夕，民主党人不想让共和党人取得重大胜利（因为这对两党来说都是一场必须赢下的选举）。
But the efforts to shutdown the votes appear to build on a growing trend ahead of the November midterms — Democrats don't want to hand Republicans two massive wins going into a must-win election for both parties.
参议院少数党领袖、纽约州民主党人查克·舒默（Chuck Schumer）在民主党人的中期选举宣传中强调“住房可负担性”，同时破坏共和党为控制不断上涨的住房成本而提出的改革措施。他指责共和党人从一开始就知道该法案无法通过，并称他们“就是故意设计成这样的”。
SCHUMER PREACHES AFFORDABILITY IN DEM MIDTERM PITCH WHILE SABOTAGING GOP FIXES FOR SOARING COSTS Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., argued that Republicans knew the bill would never pass, and that they "designed it that way." "They don't want this bill to become law," Schumer insisted.
舒默坚称：“他们根本不想让这项法案成为法律，因此在其中加入了‘毒药’（即那些会破坏法案通过的致命条款）。”他补充道：“这完全是欺骗和阴谋行为。如果共和党参议员真的关心阻止立法者进行股票交易，他们就不会在法案中加入那些会破坏其通过的可能性的条款。”这两项问题虽然性质截然不同，但多年来在国会中都一直未能得到解决。
"So they put a poison pill in that they knew would tank it." "It's really trickery. Skullduggery," he added. "If Republican senators really cared about stopping stock trading by members, they wouldn't have loaded it up with a poison pill voter ID bill, which Senate Democrats have defeated already twice." They are two issues, though worlds apart, that have routinely failed to launch in Congress.
参议院民主党人多次阻挠了选民身份验证法案以及《拯救美国法案》的通过；而禁止立法者进行股票交易的提案也因两党内部的争执而未能得以实施。
Senate Democrats have blocked voter ID and the SAVE America Act — and its several iterations throughout the year — multiple times, while banning lawmakers from trading stocks has largely been stifled by intraparty quarrels on both sides of the aisle.
舒默表示：“民主党人支持选民身份验证制度”——然而所有参议院民主党议员都投票反对了共和党的这项法案。尽管如此，这些措施其实得到了美国绝大多数民众的支持。
SCHUMER SAID ‘DEMOCRATS SUPPORT VOTER ID’ — THEN EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST GOP BILL Still, they are issues that Americans overwhelmingly support. A poll from the University of Maryland published in 2023 found that 86% of Americans on both sides of the political spectrum supported banning lawmakers from trading stocks. And a 2025 poll from the Pew Research Center found that 83% of Americans favored "requiring all voters to show government-issued photo identification to vote."
2023年马里兰大学发布的一项民意调查显示，86%的美国人（无论政治立场如何）都支持禁止立法者进行股票交易；2025年皮尤研究中心的调查显示，83%的美国人支持“要求所有选民在投票时出示政府颁发的带有照片的身份证件”。这两项法案是共和党人试图在周三通过的，目的是回应选民的关切。在中期选举前夕，唐纳德·特朗普总统在伊朗的军事行动及其对经济的影响，可能会决定共和党在参众两院的执政地位。
It’s the first of two bills Republicans will try to pass on Wednesday to tackle voters’ concerns heading into the midterms, where President Donald Trump’s war in Iran, and its effect on the economy, could make or break the GOP’s grip on power in both chambers.
数十名众议院民主党议员拒绝了将国会关于股票交易的禁令与联邦选民身份验证制度合并的法案。这项法案由内布拉斯加州共和党参议员皮特·里克茨推动，他正在为连任而努力。
DOZENS OF HOUSE DEMOCRATS REJECT BILL FUSING CONGRESSIONAL STOCK BAN WITH FEDERAL VOTER ID The stock trading bill was pushed by Sen. Pete Ricketts, R-Neb., who is in a tightening bid for reelection.
另一项法案旨在为人工智能公司和数据中心制定用电成本分担标准——这已成为本次中期选举中的一个关键议题；许多位于选战关键州的候选人都在紧急制定相关政策立场以应对这些大型、无窗户的数据中心。该法案由俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德推动，他的竞选活动正处于竞争最为激烈的阶段。民主党人认为，共和党试图推动这项数据中心法案通过的举动，其实只是为赫斯特德的竞选活动提供政治支持罢了。
The other bill will create standards for AI companies and data centers to bear the brunt of electricity costs, a key issue that has emerged in this midterm cycle that has candidates in battleground states scrambling to craft policy positions against the hulking, windowless structures. That bill is being pushed by Sen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, who is running in one of the most contested races this cycle. Democrats contend that the GOP's attempt to push through the data center bill is nothing more than a political lifeline for Husted's campaign.
“这两项立法都直接涉及美国民众极为关心、且非常重视的问题，”参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩表示，“让我们看看民主党人是否愿意接受这个现实吧。”
"Both pieces of legislation strike at the very heart of issues that the American people care deeply about, passionately about," Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., said. "And we'll see if the Democrats are willing to take yes for an answer."