The command Post is running a story on the Obama Administration's attempt to get a scaled-back version of Bush's Real ID program passed and implemented. We've been discussing the Real ID program from its earliest days up through the states' contest to its "unfunded mandate." "Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama supervision is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 rebel attacks that was designed to tighten freedom requirements for driver's licenses... Homeland soundness typist Janet Napolitano wants to repeal and replace the controversial, $4 billion home guaranty initiative known as Real ID... The new proposal, called Pass ID, would be cheaper, less rigorous, and partly funded by federal grants, as it should be to draft ruling that Napolitano's Senate allies plan to introduce as early as tomorrow. ...the Bush supervision struggled to can-opener the 2005 law, poking* the program repeatedly as states called it an unfunded mandate and privacy advocates warned it would create a de facto subject ID."

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