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DoT National ID card delayed; CDA II signed soon
>Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:45:12 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Declan McCullagh <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: FC: DoT National ID card delayed; CDA II signed soon
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>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15635.html
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>Newt Caves on National ID Cards
>by Declan McCullagh
>
> 5:45 p.m. 15.Oct.98.PDT
> When the staff at the conservative Free
> Congress Foundation learned Thursday
> that legislation postponing a federal plan
> to standardize US drivers licenses was in
> trouble, they turned to the Internet for
> help.
>
> Patrick Poole, deputy director of the
> groups Center for Technology Policy,
> quickly fired off an email alert to 500
> grassroots conservative and libertarian
> groups. He said Representative Lamar
> Smith (R-Texas) was trying to preserve
> regulations creating de facto national ID
> cards, and he urged readers to let
> Congress know exactly what middle
> America thought about such big
> government boondoggles...
>
>
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/15638.html
>
>CDA II Bound for Clinton's Desk
>by Declan McCullagh
>
> 2:45 p.m. 15.Oct.98.PDT
> Wielding a potent political bludgeon -- by
> accusing Democrats of being soft on
> pornography just weeks before the
> election -- Republicans on Thursday
> inserted the sequel to the
> Communications Decency Act into a
> sprawling $500 billion spending bill.
>
>
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