{"id":1007,"date":"2007-04-26T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-26T16:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1007"},"modified":"2007-04-26T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2007-04-26T16:41:07","slug":"real-id-creator-laws-been-misunderstood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/real-id-creator-laws-been-misunderstood\/","title":{"rendered":"Real ID creator: Law&#8217;s been misunderstood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  <strong>ARLINGTON, Va.&#8211;One of the chief Republican architects of the controversial federal Real ID law on Thursday said the forthcoming nationalized identification cards are not an &#8220;unfunded mandate&#8221; and called for hearings to dispel myths about the proposed system.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the ranking member of a U.S. House of Representatives government oversight panel, said he has asked committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to hold hearings to explore questions related to the requirements, which were <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Senate+approves+electronic+ID+card+bill\/2100-1028_3-5702505.html\" title=\"Senate approves electronic ID card bill -- Tuesday, May 10, 2005\">approved by Congress<\/a> as part of an emergency military-spending bill two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;States don&#8217;t have to participate,&#8221; Davis told attendees at a meeting here organized by the Information Technology Association of America. &#8220;They can issue driver&#8217;s licenses to whoever they want under whatever standards.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Real+ID+creator+Laws+been+misunderstood\/2100-7348_3-6179476.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here\u00c2\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ARLINGTON, Va.&#8211;One of the chief Republican architects of the controversial federal Real ID law on Thursday said the forthcoming nationalized identification cards are not an &#8220;unfunded mandate&#8221; and called for hearings to dispel myths about the proposed system. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the ranking member of a U.S. House of Representatives government oversight panel, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,21,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rfid","category-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}