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This Clegg guy, the Senate majority leader, a Republican, is using the same threadbare halfa**ed argument that gungrabbers use? What the HELL? 
Senate shoots down Real ID pullout
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Telegraph Staff
[email protected]
Published: Friday, May. 12, 2006
CONCORD – The crusade to get New Hampshire to opt out of complying with a federally mandated national ID card died in a hail of political gunfire Thursday.
Two other casualties in this melee were a priority bill (SB 399) of Senate Majority Leader Robert Clegg to give health officials broad powers in case of a pandemic emergency, and another measure (HB 1204) updating state laws on AIDS treatment and prevention.
Clegg, R-Hudson, accused Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, an opponent of the national ID card, of risking public health to pursue his penchant for personal privacy.
“He’s got a credit card. There’s more information on him in the three credit bureaus than there ever will be on a national ID,” Clegg said. “If someone dies, Neal Kurk can sit there and decide if he has a conscience.” (Isn't that EXACTLY what the gungrabbers and gun register people say?)
A perennial sponsor of legislation promoting personal privacy, Kurk refuses to supply his picture or list his occupation or other biographical information for a political handbook.
For his part, Kurk said there’s broad opposition to the federal Real ID Act of 2005 across the state, and the fight against it was worthwhile even if it meant other worthwhile legislation got killed.
“This is what I believe is the heart of America, not just the heart of New Hampshire,” Kurk said.
The battle over the ID bill overshadowed action on nearly 100 other bills Thursday. “This is a classic case of legislative chicken between the House and the Senate,” Kurk said.
The ID bill would have made New Hampshire the first state in the nation to reject the federal law that would create a national ID card by May 2008. New Hampshire has been offered a $3 million grant to be one of two states to test the new system.
The House passed the bill, while the Senate wanted to create a commission to study the implications of New Hampshire refusing to issue the national card.
The Senate voted Thursday to turn down a House offer to negotiate over the differences between the two bills. The Senate vote was 14-7, with all Republicans present in the majority.
The House vote to give the same thumbs-down treatment to Clegg’s pandemic-fighting legislation was 236-59. The House also voted to kill another bill updating state law on AIDS treatment and prevention because the Senate had attached to it a carbon copy of the pandemic emergency bill.
After the political fireworks, Clegg said the Senate would create an informal study group to continue examining Real ID.
These moves threatened to create some ill will among Republican leaders in the House and Senate as they begin to hash out differences on roughly 65 pending bills in the 2006 session.
Legislative groups of four House members and three senators were appointed Thursday to try to cut deals on issues including cracking down on sexual predators, forcing women with young children on welfare to try to find work, and having the state buy homes ravaged by the flooding in southeastern New Hampshire.
They have a week to come to agreements, with the Legislature being brought back May 24 to take up those compromises.
Gov. John Lynch said he would have signed legislation rejecting the Real ID law. Governors across the country are wary about the cost of producing a tamper-proof ID card and putting state motor vehicle workers in the front lines of the country’s battle against terrorists, Lynch said.
The Legislative Fiscal Committee voted last week to delay deciding whether to accept a $3 million federal grant for the Real ID program while lawmakers debated this bill. Cornish Democratic Sen. Peter Burling said the cost could be 10 times what Washington is offering.
“It will be a budget buster if we don’t avert New Hampshire’s headlong plunge into Real ID,” Burling said.
But Clegg said New Hampshire is ahead of most states in creating a secure driver’s license, and that concerns about threats to personal privacy are overblown.
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Okay, anyone in NH...if you can, find alllllll the personal information you can about Robert Clegg. Does someone want to spring for a criminal background check or tax and credit history? Let's take all that and disseminate it all over the web, in forums, wherever, or give it as a PDF to the anti-realID people to hand out at their rallies. I mean, he doesn't care about privacy, right?
Senate shoots down Real ID pullout
By KEVIN LANDRIGAN, Telegraph Staff
[email protected]
Published: Friday, May. 12, 2006
CONCORD – The crusade to get New Hampshire to opt out of complying with a federally mandated national ID card died in a hail of political gunfire Thursday.
Two other casualties in this melee were a priority bill (SB 399) of Senate Majority Leader Robert Clegg to give health officials broad powers in case of a pandemic emergency, and another measure (HB 1204) updating state laws on AIDS treatment and prevention.
Clegg, R-Hudson, accused Rep. Neal Kurk, R-Weare, an opponent of the national ID card, of risking public health to pursue his penchant for personal privacy.
“He’s got a credit card. There’s more information on him in the three credit bureaus than there ever will be on a national ID,” Clegg said. “If someone dies, Neal Kurk can sit there and decide if he has a conscience.” (Isn't that EXACTLY what the gungrabbers and gun register people say?)
A perennial sponsor of legislation promoting personal privacy, Kurk refuses to supply his picture or list his occupation or other biographical information for a political handbook.
For his part, Kurk said there’s broad opposition to the federal Real ID Act of 2005 across the state, and the fight against it was worthwhile even if it meant other worthwhile legislation got killed.
“This is what I believe is the heart of America, not just the heart of New Hampshire,” Kurk said.
The battle over the ID bill overshadowed action on nearly 100 other bills Thursday. “This is a classic case of legislative chicken between the House and the Senate,” Kurk said.
The ID bill would have made New Hampshire the first state in the nation to reject the federal law that would create a national ID card by May 2008. New Hampshire has been offered a $3 million grant to be one of two states to test the new system.
The House passed the bill, while the Senate wanted to create a commission to study the implications of New Hampshire refusing to issue the national card.
The Senate voted Thursday to turn down a House offer to negotiate over the differences between the two bills. The Senate vote was 14-7, with all Republicans present in the majority.
The House vote to give the same thumbs-down treatment to Clegg’s pandemic-fighting legislation was 236-59. The House also voted to kill another bill updating state law on AIDS treatment and prevention because the Senate had attached to it a carbon copy of the pandemic emergency bill.
After the political fireworks, Clegg said the Senate would create an informal study group to continue examining Real ID.
These moves threatened to create some ill will among Republican leaders in the House and Senate as they begin to hash out differences on roughly 65 pending bills in the 2006 session.
Legislative groups of four House members and three senators were appointed Thursday to try to cut deals on issues including cracking down on sexual predators, forcing women with young children on welfare to try to find work, and having the state buy homes ravaged by the flooding in southeastern New Hampshire.
They have a week to come to agreements, with the Legislature being brought back May 24 to take up those compromises.
Gov. John Lynch said he would have signed legislation rejecting the Real ID law. Governors across the country are wary about the cost of producing a tamper-proof ID card and putting state motor vehicle workers in the front lines of the country’s battle against terrorists, Lynch said.
The Legislative Fiscal Committee voted last week to delay deciding whether to accept a $3 million federal grant for the Real ID program while lawmakers debated this bill. Cornish Democratic Sen. Peter Burling said the cost could be 10 times what Washington is offering.
“It will be a budget buster if we don’t avert New Hampshire’s headlong plunge into Real ID,” Burling said.
But Clegg said New Hampshire is ahead of most states in creating a secure driver’s license, and that concerns about threats to personal privacy are overblown.
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Okay, anyone in NH...if you can, find alllllll the personal information you can about Robert Clegg. Does someone want to spring for a criminal background check or tax and credit history? Let's take all that and disseminate it all over the web, in forums, wherever, or give it as a PDF to the anti-realID people to hand out at their rallies. I mean, he doesn't care about privacy, right?