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By Cian Cashin With the crumbs of Thanksgiving swept away, Congress returns to “work.” Our legislators have a lot more than crumbs left on their plates, however. The same glut of legislative work that was on their platters before the holiday remains – uncured, unkempt, and embodies a political catastrophe to conclude before the end of the year. Before the recess, the Senate had provided an inconclusive and vague volley at reauthorizing surface transportation programs (MAP-21). The House... Read Full Story
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By Cian Cashin, Senior Manager, Government Affairs, AAMVA They’re really going to try it. Or at least they’re making a consolidated effort at getting out some version of a highway reauthorization measure in both chambers. In my mind, it’s more a case of dueling banjos. As we’ve noted, the Senate has introduced its two year highway reauthorization measure – MAP-21. There’s obviously much to be desired from that legislation, including the funding levels, but not to be outdone, House Speaker... Read Full Story
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By Cian Cashin I’d like to thank our President and CEO Neil Schuster for providing the perfect Shakespeare quote to summarize some of the legislative activity of the week. What will likely take me paragraphs to summarize, can be condensed into the sage words of Macbeth rather nicely. This week, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee finally passed their version of a two-year surface transportation reauthorization (S 1813) by a unanimous vote of 18-0. This legislation, known as... Read Full Story
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We just wrapped up three days of meetings with the members of our standing committees to work on plans for the coming year. There was a lot of great back and forth in both the combined meetings and break outs for each of the three standing committees - Driver, Vehicle, and Enforcement. We talked about the missions and goals for each of the standing commitees and also took a look at how those committees and related discipline groups may be restructured and reorganized to be more effective. The... Read Full Story
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By Cian Cashin, Senior Manager, Government Affairs And by this, I don’t mean our recently departed technological guru, I mean concrete, getting Americans back to work…JOBS. The answer, apparently, would depend on who you ask. This week, Senate Republicans offered a counter proposal to the Senate Democrats $60 billion infrastructure proposal the Senate is expected to debate this week. The Senate Democratic proposal would essentially be “part two” of the Obama jobs package. Senate Dems have... Read Full Story
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By Cian Cashin Four weeks from today, the “Super Committee” is expected to present its recommendations on how to come up with $1.2 trillion in federal government savings. While much of their work has been being conducted behind closed doors for the past few weeks, there have been rumors that all has not gone exactly smoothly for the Committee. While the Committee held its fourth public hearing this week and publicly indicated that work was progressing well, many are stating that there have... Read Full Story
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By Mike Calvin Today, Philippe Guiot, Ian Grossman, Kevin Lewis and I met with Mr. Craig Soutar, Chief Information Officer with the New Zealand Transport Agency who was visiting the Washington area. We shared information about AAMVA in general as well as more specific information on our IT Division, driver and vehicle programs and social media programs within AAMVA and our member jurisdictions. During the last month, we have met with federal government and motor vehicle representatives from... Read Full Story
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By Cian Cashin This week Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee Chairman Jay Rockefeller asked the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to provide a report to the Committee on the growing use of facial recognition technology and outline what that means for consumers. We all know the need for inclusion of certain biometric security measures on the license, but can his request have implications for the collection and use of data by the public sector? Most of his concerns lie around the... Read Full Story
