Date: Thu, 15 Oct 1998 18:45:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> To: politech@vorlon.mit.edu Subject: FC: DoT National ID card delayed; CDA II signed soon X-No-Archive: Yes Sender: owner-politech@vorlon.mit.edu Reply-To: declan@well.com X-Loop: politech@vorlon.mit.edu X-URL: Politech is at http://www.well.com/~declan/politech/

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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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