CNET’s Anne Broche covers a bipartisan Congressional hearing on REAL ID yesterday where DHS policy guru Stewart Baker was grilled on the legislation’s most contentious issues, including who will protect the data that states will be required to collect and how the mandate - which takes effect in May - will be funded. Broche notes that a number of Senators who originally voted for the bill have since rethought their positions, despite continued assurances from DHS about its willingness to grant extensions to states concerned about costs and inconveniences to residents.