John Mica actually said...

"My God, technical hurdles? We asked for this after 2001, and they were working on it."

"The technology has dramatically changed, so the standard you set now... might need to be upgraded periodically."

"It almost defies reason that we could go this long, not produce a card that could be used."

"We put it in the law because they hadn't done it in the beginning, and he says, well, and then he says we never contemplated that this could be used for an ID."