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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