no subject!Anti-National ID Bill

Where is this?  Stalled.  Looks dead in the water.  Any further insights?


H.R.3261 
SPONSOR: Rep Paul (introduced 02/25/98) 

SUMMARY: 

(AS INTRODUCED) 

Privacy Protection Act of 1997 (sic) - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors
and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal
Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or
instrumentality from using a social security account number or
any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for
specified social security and tax purposes. 

Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local
government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to
disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a
voluntary basis. 

Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing
the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as
authorized under this Act. 


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STATUS: Detailed Legislative Status 

                                                 House Actions

Feb 25, 98:
     Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to
     be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
     committee concerned. 
     Mar 2, 98:
          Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management,
Information and Technology.
Feb 25, 98:
     Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the
Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to
     be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
     committee concerned.

At 08:35 AM 7/7/98 +0200, Anonymous wrote:
>Where is this?  Stalled.  Looks dead in the water.  Any further insights?

Dr. Ron Paul often introduces good bills that will never get anywhere,
because he's _not_ a mainstream Congressscritter.
He was a conservative Republican Congresscritter from Houston, 
quit the GOP in ~1986/1987, ran for President as a Libertarian, (lost),
and a couple of years ago decided to re-emerge as a Republican.

He's generally in favor of personal and economic freedom,
though he seems to believe that the US government owns the country
and therefore has the right to ban immigrants; I took the Ron Paul
bumper sticker off my car a few years after the election when he
endorsed Pat Buchanan for the Republican nomination instead of
the also-bad George Bush.  He's also rabidly against the U.N.,
and borders on Black-Helicopter paranoia on occasion :-)

He's willing to take a strong stand against the Republicrats 
when there are issues of principle, and therefore doesn't have a 
lot of support - often he and Bernie Sanders, the Vermont Socialist, 
are about the only members opposing a bill.  So no surprise if the bill dies.


>H.R.3261 
>SPONSOR: Rep Paul (introduced 02/25/98) 
>
>SUMMARY: 
>
>(AS INTRODUCED) 
>
>Privacy Protection Act of 1997 (sic) - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors
>and Disability Insurance) of the Social Security Act and the Internal
>Revenue Code to prohibit any Federal, State, or local government agency or
>instrumentality from using a social security account number or
>any derivative as the means of identifying any individual, except for
>specified social security and tax purposes. 
>
>Amends the Privacy Act of 1974 to prohibit any Federal, State, or local
>government agency or instrumentality from requesting an individual to
>disclose his social security account number on either a mandatory or a
>voluntary basis. 
>
>Prohibits any two Federal agencies or instrumentalities from implementing
>the same identifying number with respect to any individual, except as
>authorized under this Act. 
>
>
>----
>STATUS: Detailed Legislative Status 
>
>                                                 House Actions
>
>Feb 25, 98:
>     Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the
>Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to
>     be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
>consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
>     committee concerned. 
>     Mar 2, 98:
>          Referred to the Subcommittee on Government Management,
>Information and Technology.
>Feb 25, 98:
>     Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the
>Committee on Government Reform and Oversight, for a period to
>     be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
>consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the
>     committee concerned.
>
>
>
>
>
				Thanks! 
					Bill
Bill Stewart, bill.stewart@pobox.com
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