Administration Wants To Scale Back Real ID Law

The Washington Post is running a story on the Obama Administration's attempt to get a scaled-back version of Bush's Real ID program passed and implemented. We've been discussing the Real ID program from its earliest days up through the states' resistance to its "unfunded mandate." "Yielding to a rebellion by states that refused to pay for it, the Obama administration is moving to scale back a federal law passed after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks that was designed to tighten security requirements for driver's licenses... Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano wants to repeal and replace the controversial, $4 billion domestic security initiative known as Real ID... The new proposal, called Pass ID, would be cheaper, less rigorous, and partly funded by federal grants, according to draft legislation that Napolitano's Senate allies plan to introduce as early as tomorrow. ...the Bush administration struggled to implement the 2005 [Real ID] law, delaying the program repeatedly as states called it an unfunded mandate and privacy advocates warned it would create a de facto national ID."

Comments

Re:Oh?

[Ummite]

If you think that 9/11 was an inside job (as most people that seriously analyse all the aspect of the 9/11 facts, as most of the close familly of the lost ones), then patriot acts and all other mesure to try to keep us far from terrorist is only a mirage, a way to get more control over american citizen.

Re:Me too.

[TemporalBeing]

Well...in PA there is really only one DMV - in Harrisburg, PA - for the entire state. They do have satellite centers, but all they do is licenses and license photos. Nothing else.

So if you want to go to the DMV to register your car, get new plates, etc, you only have one DMV to go to regardless of whether you live in Pittsburgh, PA, Philadelphia, PA, Matamoras, PA, Erie, PA, or any where in between.

Would you really want to have to travel like that for health care too?