Richard K. Armey: “It's both for those who lack coverage, and those who dislike their coverage, that I'm introducing this bill.”

Mr. Speaker, I believe we could probably find a pretty unanimous consensus in America that there is probably no grief that comes to a parent that is greater than the grief of losing a child. In fact, this Nation has on many, many occasions…

It is our expectation that with the Homeland Security, the continuing resolution, the other conference reports that we can foresee, there would be nothing of such urgency before the Nation to require us to come back before January 7.

These are exactly the proposals that were applauded across this land in 1962 when first proposed by then President John F. Kennedy. They worked in 1962. The only thing that was different is by 1962, we had never enacted anything in our Tax…

The answer is yes on both counts. The Federal government does not have the authority to nationalize driver's licenses and other identification cards. And this legislation would not give them that authority. The authority to design and…