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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.
A witty saying proves nothing.
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.
They didn't coin the idea of outright killing nominations in committee but they sure as heck have coined the idea of fillibustering nominations to avoid a vote.
If parent is troll, then so is grandparent! Oh, I forgot, if a conservative states a fact refuting a point made by a liberal, the BOrg Collective mods him down!
sithkhan
100-0. That's a huge loss for alarmist liberals and illegal immigrants, and a big win for real Americans.
America is booming, the economy is on the up swing, Iraq is a free democracy, there hasn't been a terrorist attack on American soil in years. All things considered, it's a great time to be an American. Meanwhile, alarmist doomsday liberals like you are angry as hell. But over what?
You cite the loss of freedom... what loss of freedom? What could you do in the year 2000 that you can't do today?? You can't bring box cutters onto a flight? You can't legally crack software? Oh the horror... please give me one example of how your life has actually been effected.
You talk of a revolution. I don't know if you realize this, but the majority of Americans support the Real-ID act, just like the majority of Americans support the Patriot Act, the DMCA, etc. So why don't you just try that revolution buddy. Don't act like the people opposed to you are idiots either - I've probably done more research on the Real-ID act than you have, and in my opinion it's a good piece of legislation.
God bless America.
you mean, like a filibuster?
No, not like a filibuster.