Plead for President Trump to Veto HR 4174
Please alert (plead with) President Trump to veto this already passed bill, HR 4174, that Congress passed WITHOUT a hearing, so stealthily, during the Christmas break when supposedly none of us are paying attention.
Even if Trump doesn’t veto in time, Americans need to become aware quickly about what this bill will do. So bark!
HR 4174 will make America more like communist China, less like the America of liberty and justice for all, because its point is to collect EVIDENCE on you and me, and to create evidence-based policies that will be enforceable. Do you really want to give your own and your child’s and your neighbor’s privacy away —to public-private research partnerships, whom you never elected and cannot fire?
This bill comes from the CEP (Commission for Evidence Based Policy) which formed a few years ago with a mission to consolidate ALL data of ALL Americans from ALL sources into one “central clearinghouse”. The title of the commission, and of this bill, sounded so innocuous. But even back then, even though it came from Republican Paul Ryan, I was in full panic mode, and wrote about CEP’s goals and meetings, a lot.
Now the CEP’s plot is to be US law (unless we see a veto from President Trump).
People won’t be able to ignore its effects.
When ALL data from ALL sources gets combined (for research purposes only, they promise us) into the central clearinghouse, freedom can quickly go away. The CEP wants access for officials and researchers to ALL DATA. This is not anonymous data, but Pii (Personally Identifiable Information) on children and adults from everywhere—every US school, every test and tech based report or assignment, data from every document held by public private partnerships including preschools, hospitals, foster families, the social security department, criminal justice departments, both state and federal; the IRS, the CIA, the FBI, the EPA, the TSA, student loans, colleges, universities, including private corporations in public private partnerships, and much much more. When personal data is accessible to a “researcher” or bureaucrat, whether a legitimate policy maker or a nefarious hack, without YOUR informed consent, that’s very, very, exceptionally bad news.
https://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2018/12/28/plead-for-president-trump-to-veto-hr-4174/
H.R. 4174: Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017
H.R. 4174 addresses several recommendations from the final report issued by the Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking. Specifically, the bill
Requires federal agencies to create evidence-building plans for identifying and addressing policy questions relevant to the programs, policies, and regulations of the agency;
Establishes Chief Evaluation Officers to continually assess the coverage, quality, methods, consistency, effectiveness, independence, and balance of the portfolio of evaluations, policy research, and ongoing evaluation activities of the agency; and
Creates an advisory committee to study the Commission’s recommendation to create a National Secure Data Service.
The bill also incorporates the text of H.R. 1770, the OPEN Government Data Act, which requires open government data assets made available by federal agencies to be published as machine-readable data.
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4174/summary
3 cosponsors (2R, 1D) (show)
Farenthold, Blake [R-TX27] (joined Oct 31, 2017; no longer serving)
Gowdy, Trey [R-SC4] (joined Oct 31, 2017)
Kilmer, Derek [D-WA6] (joined Oct 31, 2017)
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4174/details
The text of the bill below is as of Dec 25, 2018 (Passed Congress).
https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr4174/text