{"id":1030,"date":"2005-02-10T08:02:37","date_gmt":"2005-02-10T08:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1030"},"modified":"2005-02-10T08:02:37","modified_gmt":"2005-02-10T08:02:37","slug":"sensenbrenner_s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1030","title":{"rendered":"Sensenbrenner Strikes again &#8211; H.R. 418: National ID Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the taking away our rights to make us safer department, Wisconsin Republican Congressman <a href=\"http:\/\/clusty.com\/search?query=%22Jim+Sensenbrenner%22\">Jim Sensenbrenner<\/a>, assured of a <acronym TITLE=\"There is a problem when the turnover in the United States House of Representatives is lower than it was in the Soviet Politburo.\">safe seat<\/acronym>, has introduced a National ID bill (H.R. 418).   I wonder if any of his constituents understand or support this initiative.  <\/p>\n<p>We remember Sensenbrenner&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/000728.php\">earlier efforts<\/a> on behalf of his Hollywood constituents&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>How any of this benefits Wisconsin&#8217;s citizens or economy is beyond me.  Sensenbrenner is a poster boy for congressional <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/archives\/001483.php\">redistricting reform<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Decland McCullagh forwarded this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>You will remember that late last year, Congress passed (and the<br \/>\nPresident signed) legislation which starts us down the road to a<br \/>\nNational ID card.  In the name of preventing alien terrorists from<br \/>\noperating in this country, the so-called Intelligence Reform bill gave<br \/>\nfederal bureaucrats unprecedented new powers to force changes in<br \/>\nstate-issued driver&#8217;s licenses &#8212; including, possibly, the addition of<br \/>\ncomputer chip technology that can facilitate the tracking of all<br \/>\nU.S. citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the House will be debating new legislation, H.R.  418, that was<br \/>\nrecently introduced by Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI).  In<br \/>\nconsidering this bill, the U.S. House will vote on whether to empower<br \/>\nthe federal government to determine who can get a driver&#8217;s license &#8212;<br \/>\nand under what conditions..<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the taking away our rights to make us safer department, Wisconsin Republican Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner, assured of a safe seat, has introduced a National ID bill (H.R. 418). I wonder if any of his constituents understand or support this initiative. We remember Sensenbrenner&#8217;s earlier efforts on behalf of his Hollywood constituents&#8230; How any of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}