{"id":1125,"date":"2007-07-28T00:14:29","date_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=1125"},"modified":"2007-07-28T00:14:29","modified_gmt":"2007-07-27T17:14:29","slug":"senate-rejects-extra-300-million-for-real-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/watching\/senate-rejects-extra-300-million-for-real-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate rejects extra $300 million for Real ID"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Action by a divided U.S. Senate on Thursday raises new questions about the fate of a contentious plan to outfit Americans with new digital identification cards by 2013.<\/strong> By <cnet :newslink url=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00279\">a 50-44 vote<\/cnet> mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside <a href=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SP02405:\">a Republican-backed amendment<\/a> to a homeland security spending bill that would have spread $300 million across the states to help them implement the so-called <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\">Real ID Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Senate also agreed unanimously to adopt <cnet :newslink url=\"http:\/\/thomas.loc.gov\/cgi-bin\/bdquery\/z?d110:SP02406:\">an amendment<\/cnet>, proposed by vocal Real ID critic Max Baucus (D-Mont.), which prohibits the use of any of the spending bill&#8217;s funding for &#8220;planning, testing, piloting, or developing a national identification card.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For more info <a href=\"http:\/\/news.com.com\/Senate+rejects+extra+300+million+for+Real+ID\/2100-7348_3-6199220.html?tag=txt.alert.hed\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Action by a divided U.S. Senate on Thursday raises new questions about the fate of a contentious plan to outfit Americans with new digital identification cards by 2013. By a 50-44 vote mostly along party lines, the chamber set aside a Republican-backed amendment to a homeland security spending bill that would have spread $300 million [&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-1125","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\/1125","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=1125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}