As the General Assembly returns today to debate vetoes from the governor, the Senate still has the unfinished business of approving the Voter ID legislation -- the Republican Party's top priority for 2010.

Here are the facts about the Voter ID debate:

• The House Republicans have approved the Voter ID bill three times in the 15 months.
• Every member of the House Republican Caucus present voted for the bill.
• The House and Senate appointed a conference committee and that conference committee worked hard to compromise and write a bill acceptable to everyone.
• The House Republicans approved that conference report, leaving the final approval to the Senate.
• The Senate Republicans are allowing a single Democrat to stop this bill in an unbelievable display of deference to personal privilege over the best interests of our state.
• There are 27 Republican members of the Senate, and they could not cobble together the 24 votes they needed to stop the filibuster.
• They only need 24 members to approve the conference report, which would immediately send the Voter ID legislation to the governor’s desk.
• The Senate has STILL NOT TAKEN an up-or-down vote on the Voter ID conference report.
• The so-called 'Senate version' is not a signed conference report, and would open up even more loopholes in the integrity of our elections.