{"id":1080,"date":"2007-06-28T12:55:35","date_gmt":"2007-06-28T05:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1080"},"modified":"2007-06-28T12:55:35","modified_gmt":"2007-06-28T05:55:35","slug":"senate-takes-step-away-from-real-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/senate-takes-step-away-from-real-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate takes step away from Real ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The U.S. Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become America&#8217;s first federal identification card in a few years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During Wednesday&#8217;s floor debate over a massive immigration bill, Real ID foes managed to preserve an amendment to prohibit the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Homeland+Security+offers+details+on+Real+ID\/2100-1028_3-6163509.html\" title=\"Homeland Security offers details on Real ID -- Thursday, Mar 1, 2007\">forthcoming identification card<\/a> from being used for mandatory employment verification, signaling that the political winds have shifted from when the law was <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/FAQ+How+Real+ID+will+affect+you\/2100-1028_3-5697111.html\" title=\"FAQ: How Real ID will affect you -- Friday, May 6, 2005\">overwhelmingly enacted<\/a> two years ago.<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Senate+takes+step+away+from+Real+ID\/2100-7348_3-6193735.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Senate took a preliminary step on Wednesday toward reining in the controversial Real ID Act, which is scheduled to become America&#8217;s first federal identification card in a few years. During Wednesday&#8217;s floor debate over a massive immigration bill, Real ID foes managed to preserve an amendment to prohibit the forthcoming identification card from [&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-1080","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\/1080","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=1080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1080\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}