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WASHINGTON -- Congress is poised to pass a law that would make sweeping changes to the nation's system for issuing driver's licenses by imposing stringent requirements on states to verify the authenticity of birth certificates, Social Security cards, legal residency visas, and bank and utility records used to obtain a license.
House Republicans attached the bill to a must-pass supplemental spending package for troops in Iraq without first putting it through the usual legislative scrutiny of hearings and debate.
Lots of folks see this as a privacy issue, but Patches sees this as a danger to democracy. Not the bill itself but attaching it to a bill that must/will pass. This is how our elected officials do things that we don't want done. Republican, democrat, liberal or conservative so many bills like this one that need time for debate, are hidden so no debate is possible. And once passed and it hits home it’s too late. When a bill is not aired out in public, not given time for debate, you can bet it will be the public that gets screwed. This is one of the bad ways on how our government works.
That being said, two things, I would think everyone in general and conservatives in particular would worry about with this bill. One; using terrorism to put us all in jail for our own protection, in other words we all guilty until proven innocent. Two; one more squeeze of big government on our throats. Not to mention ID theft, what a nightmare that would be.
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