Martin Sabo: “I thank the gentleman. I am just afraid we are doing another miniature No Child Left Behind in this law that we passed a…”

“I thank the gentleman. I am just afraid we are doing another miniature No Child Left Behind in this law that we passed a couple of weeks ago. It is the Federal Government again deciding how the States should run something that States have historically done. States have historically issued driver's licenses in this country. So now wise people in Washington are now telling them how to do it. Again, we are not going to pay them money to do it. Then we have all kinds of requirements that may or may not make sense. They make sense to somebody who sits down here and writes law who, I doubt, has ever administered the issuing of driver's licenses in any State. Sort of a repetition again in miniature scale of what we did in No Child Left Behind. I think that is a law which is fraught with troubles throughout the country. This is much smaller in scale, but we are repeating the same thing that we did in that law. I think it is a mistake. I think it is going to complicate life immensely for all of our citizens as they go about the process of moving around this country and getting new driver's licenses. But at a minimum, we should be doing a significant part of the funding to make sure we do not adversely impact all of the States by this wisdom that we are sending down from Washington.”