Marshall Sanford: “I thank the gentleman from Texas for the way that, on a nightly basis, he comes down to the well and helps inform…”

“I thank the gentleman from Texas for the way that, on a nightly basis, he comes down to the well and helps inform people. Jefferson, in the writings of our Founding Fathers, talked about how important it was to have an informed electorate. I just really appreciate the way the gentleman gives people clarity and information that they can then digest and make their decisions with. That process of informing is, I think, a vital part of the politic. He does it on the daily basis, and I appreciate it. His doing so matters to me and to the people that I represent. I appreciate so much the gentleman's yielding because I want to talk just a couple of minutes about a bill that I introduced today entitled the REAL ID Privacy Protection Act. It is a bipartisan bill. It is supported from the Republican side by people like Mark Meadows. It is supported on the Democratic side by Democrats like Chellie Pingree from Maine. I think they do so because it is a commonsense bill that gets at some of the deficiencies that one can find in REAL ID. Quite specifically, what it does is eliminate the requirement that your personal documentation and documents be held and archived, in essence, in warehouses for 10 years. It will not require your stuff to be out in government databases for 10 years. Secondly, it eliminates the requirement that the DMV databases be co-linked. Thirdly, it creates uniformity with regard to the way in which extensions are granted.…”