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Q: Is Hart Anti-Driver’s License Resolution Paranoid?

Posted by DFO

Feb. 15, 2007 1:09 p.m. • 0 comments

For the rest of Parker Howell’s SR story, click here.

A House committee unanimously passed a North Idaho legislator’s resolution Wednesday prohibiting Idaho from implementing new federal driver’s license standards. The joint resolution by Rep. Phil Hart, R-Athol, would also ask the state’s congressional delegation to advocate repealing the Real ID Act of 2005 – legislation requiring states to issue new IDs that opponents say severely threaten Americans’ personal privacy. The act passed without a hearing and is a “backdoor approach” to making a national ID card, Hart said. Required by spring 2008, the new IDs would be tied to a national database and be needed to board airplanes and enter some federal buildings.

Question: Is Phil Hart being paranoid by introducing his resolution against the federal driver’s license standards?

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