Does Your Senator Support a National ID?

by on October 26, 2007 · 10 comments

Nine U.S. Senators wrote to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the Senate Appropriations Committee this week asking them to protect $50 million allocated to the REAL ID Act in the Department of Homeland Security appropritations bill. This is a clear indication of their support for requiring Americans to carry a national ID card.

Here are the Senators’ names, with links to their home and contact pages:

Robert Casey (D-PA) (contact) John Cornyn (R-TX) (contact) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) (contact) Chuck Grassley (R-IA) (contact) John Kyl (R-AZ) (contact) Pat Roberts (R-KS) (contact) Charles Schumer (D-NY) (contact) George Voinovich (R-OH) (contact) John Warner (R-VA) (contact)

I’ve written a book, and yesterday testified in Michigan, about why having a national ID would be a bad idea.

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About Jim Harper

Jim Harper is the Director of Information Policy Studies at The Cato Institute, the Editor of Web-based privacy think-tank Privacilla.org, and the Webmaster of WashingtonWatch.com. A Poli Sci major at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Jim served as Editor-in-Chief of the Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly in his final year at Hastings College of the Law. Prior to becoming a policy analyst and advocate, Jim served as counsel to committees in both the U.S. House and Senate. He avoids genuine life experience by watching lots and lots of reality TV.

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  • John Overholt

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but Diane Feinstein should be a D, and so should Schumer.

  • John Overholt

    Sometimes it’s hard to tell, but Diane Feinstein should be a D, and so should Schumer.

  • http://www.cato.org/people/harper.html Jim Harper

    Thanks. Corrected.

  • http://www.cato.org/people/harper.html Jim Harper

    Thanks. Corrected.

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    Schumer has come out in favor of a national Social Security-based ID card that would have to be presented to work for a living.

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2007/11/06/2007-11-06_sen_schumer_sidesteps_illegal_immigrant_-2.html

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    Schumer has come out in favor of a national Social Security-based ID card that would have to be presented to work for a living.

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