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The Senate this week will begin considering the $82 billion supplemental appropriations bill -- and is likely to leave in legislative limbo immigration-enforcement provisions attached to the House version.
The Real ID bill, authored by Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Wisconsin Republican, would require state motor vehicle departments to verify an applicant's identity and legal right to be in the country before issuing a driver's license.
States would not be forced to comply, but if they did not within three years, their driver's licenses would cease to be federally recognized for identity purposes and could not be used to board planes or access federal buildings.
Posted by Suzanne at April 5, 2005