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Real-ID Passes U.S. Senate 100-0
jeffkjo1 writes "The U.S. Senate has passed the $82 billion Iraq Supplemental Spending Bill (approved by the House last week), which includes the Real ID act driver's license reform (previously reported here.) The National Governors Association has indicated at the possibility of a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the Real ID provisions, which would create national driver's license standards, and a federal database of information from all 50 states."
Forced? What happened to the fillibuster? Oh that's right, they're reserving that for the judicial nominees.
Sure, the republicans ran with it, but Kerry actually did utter the phrase first. That was too juicy a screwup to leave alone.
If this got proposed in my country (Australia) i would fight it with a public information campaign, which would be in addition to my countries relatively effective checks and balances halting it in its tracks.
If you haven't realized it yet, Australia is America's little brother. I don't mean "little brother" in a pejorative way. You're our little brother because you get all of our hand me downs. When we get shiny new legislation like the DMCA, your legislators say, "We want one of those too!" It's just a matter of time.
100-0. That's a huge loss for alarmist liberals and illegal immigrants, and a big win for real Americans.
you mean, like a filibuster?
No, not like a filibuster.