This is a classic example in this post-September 11, 2001, world of our responsibility to weigh those privacy concerns against what I would assume was the advantage to our national...
I want to challenge each of us to work together urgently because my goal, and I know Senator Collins' would be, is to get this PASS ID befor...
I would particularly like to thank Senators Akaka and Voinovich for their leadership on PASS ID and moving this forward.
It is absolutely true that no State by December 31 will have a REAL ID-compliant document.
The key point of authenticity of identification tools, in this case, drivers' licenses or ID cards: Identity theft is a tremendously large p...
We need secure identification to thwart potential terrorists.
I opposed the REAL ID Act because I thought ultimately it laid out a very prescriptive, unworkable, and expensive process.
We give the States flexibility on how to do the re-enrollment so long as everything is complete by 2016.
That difference would have picked up some of the September 11, 2001, hijackers.
So right now, effectively, no one is really doing it as comprehensively as it should be done?
I take it you do feel that the cuts in funding for the Federal Protective Service are part of the problem here, but by no means the whole pr...