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11月中期选举前的一个普遍趋势——民主党人不想在一场对两党都至关重要的选举中让共和党人取得重大胜利。
But the efforts to shut down 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. "So they put a poison pill in that they knew would tank it."
舒默坚称：“他们根本不想让这项法案成为法律；因此他们在法案中加入了‘毒药’（即那些会破坏法案通过的条款）。”他还补充道：“这纯粹是欺骗和阴谋行为。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，但在国会中都多次未能获得通过。
"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.
舒默称“民主党支持选民身份证法案” —— 随后每一位参议院民主党人都投了反对票 众议院共和党人对该立法未能通过同样感到不满。
SCHUMER SAID ‘DEMOCRATS SUPPORT VOTER ID’ — THEN EVERY SENATE DEMOCRAT VOTED AGAINST GOP BILL House Republicans are unhappy the legislation failed, too.
“任何议员都不应从内幕信息中牟利。我将继续努力推动《禁止内幕交易法案》的通过，”众议院行政委员会主席、威斯康星州共和党人布莱恩·斯泰尔对福克斯新闻数字版表示。“我很欣慰今天下午有53位参议员投票支持禁止国会议员炒股。遗憾的是，参议院民主党人采取阻挠议事手段，否决了这一常识性的道德改革。”尽管如此，这些议题仍获得美国民众的压倒性支持。
"No lawmaker should be able to profit off of insider information. I’ll continue my work to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act," House Administration Committee Chair Bryan Steil, R-Wis., told Fox News Digital. "I’m encouraged that 53 Senators voted to ban members of Congress from trading stocks this afternoon. Unfortunately, Senate Democrats filibustered this commonsense ethics reform." Still, they are issues that Americans overwhelmingly support.
马里兰大学2023年发布的一项民调显示，86%的美国民众（跨越政治光谱两端）支持禁止议员炒股。皮尤研究中心2025年的一项民调则显示，83%的美国人赞成“要求所有选民出示政府签发的带照片身份证件才能投票”。这是共和党周三将尝试通过的两项法案中的第一项，旨在回应选民关切，迎接中期选举——特朗普总统的伊朗战争及其对经济的影响，可能决定共和党能否保住对两院的控制权。
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." 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人拒绝融合“国会议员禁炒股”与“联邦选民身份证要求”法案 该禁炒股法案由内布拉斯加州共和党参议员皮特·里克茨推动，他正面临激烈的连选角逐。
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 re-election.
另一项法案将为人工智能公司和数据中心制定标准，由其承担主要电力成本，这是本届中期选举周期出现的关键议题，导致摇摆州候选人争相制定政策立场，以应对这些庞大、无窗的建筑。
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.
该法案由俄亥俄州共和党参议员乔恩·赫斯特德推动，他正参与本周期最激烈的竞选之一。民主党人认为，共和党试图强行通过数据中心法案，无非是为赫斯特德的竞选提供政治救命稻草。"这两项立法直击美国民众深切关注、充满激情关心的核心问题，" 参议院多数党领袖、南达科他州共和党人约翰·图恩表示。"我们将拭目以待，看民主党人是否愿意接受'是'这个答案。"
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. "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."