Posted on 02/06/2005 11:41:16 AM PST by JustAnotherSavage
H.R.418 Title: To establish and rapidly implement regulations for State driver's license and identification document security standards, to prevent terrorists from abusing the asylum laws of the United States, to unify terrorism-related grounds for inadmissibility and removal, and to ensure expeditious construction of the San Diego border fence. Sponsor: Rep Sensenbrenner, F. James, Jr. [WI-5] (introduced 1/26/2005) Cosponsors (125) Latest Major Action: 1/26/2005 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committees on Homeland Security, and Government Reform, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. (complete text of bill at: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.418:)
COSPONSORS(125), ALPHABETICAL
Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Baker, Richard H. [LA-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Barton, Joe [TX-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Bass, Charles F. [NH-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Beauprez, Bob [CO-7] - 2/2/2005 Rep Bilirakis, Michael [FL-9] - 1/26/2005 Rep Blackburn, Marsha [TN-7] - 1/26/2005 Rep Blunt, Roy [MO-7] - 1/26/2005 Rep Bono, Mary [CA-45] - 1/26/2005 Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Bradley, Jeb [NH-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Burgess, Michael C. [TX-26] - 1/26/2005 Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Buyer, Steve [IN-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Calvert, Ken [CA-44] - 1/26/2005 Rep Camp, Dave [MI-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Cantor, Eric [VA-7] - 1/26/2005 Rep Capito, Shelley Moore [WV-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] - 1/26/2005 Rep Chabot, Steve [OH-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Chocola, Chris [IN-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Coble, Howard [NC-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Cox, Christopher [CA-48] - 1/26/2005 Rep Crenshaw, Ander [FL-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Cubin, Barbara [WY] - 1/26/2005 Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] - 1/26/2005 Rep Cunningham, Randy (Duke) [CA-50] - 1/26/2005 Rep Davis, Geoff [KY-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Davis, Jo Ann [VA-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Davis, Lincoln [TN-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Davis, Tom [VA-11] - 1/26/2005 Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-10] - 1/26/2005 Rep Doolittle, John T. [CA-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Drake, Thelma D. [VA-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Dreier, David [CA-26] - 1/26/2005 Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Emerson, Jo Ann [MO-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Everett, Terry [AL-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Feeney, Tom [FL-24] - 1/26/2005 Rep Foley, Mark [FL-16] - 1/26/2005 Rep Forbes, J. Randy [VA-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Fossella, Vito [NY-13] - 1/26/2005 Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Gallegly, Elton [CA-24] - 1/26/2005 Rep Garrett, Scott [NJ-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Gillmor, Paul E. [OH-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] - 1/26/2005 Rep Gohmert, Louie [TX-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Goode, Virgil H., Jr. [VA-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Goodlatte, Bob [VA-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Green, Mark [WI-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Gutknecht, Gil [MN-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hart, Melissa A. [PA-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hayes, Robin [NC-8] - 2/2/2005 Rep Hayworth, J. D. [AZ-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hensarling, Jeb [TX-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Herger, Wally [CA-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hoekstra, Peter [MI-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hostettler, John N. [IN-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hunter, Duncan [CA-52] - 1/26/2005 Rep Hyde, Henry J. [IL-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Inglis, Bob [SC-4] - 2/2/2005 Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] - 1/26/2005 Rep Istook, Ernest J., Jr. [OK-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Johnson, Sam [TX-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Jones, Walter B., Jr. [NC-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Keller, Ric [FL-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Kennedy, Mark R. [MN-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep King, Steve [IA-5] - 1/26/2005 Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Kline, John [MN-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Lewis, Jerry [CA-41] - 1/26/2005 Rep Lewis, Ron [KY-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Linder, John [GA-7] - 1/26/2005 Rep Lungren, Daniel E. [CA-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Manzullo, Donald A. [IL-16] - 1/26/2005 Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] - 1/26/2005 Rep McCrery, Jim [LA-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep McHugh, John M. [NY-23] - 1/26/2005 Rep McKeon, Howard P. (Buck) [CA-25] - 1/26/2005 Rep Miller, Candice S. [MI-10] - 2/2/2005 Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] - 1/26/2005 Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Musgrave, Marilyn N. [CO-4] - 1/26/2005 Rep Myrick, Sue [NC-9] - 1/26/2005 Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] - 1/26/2005 Rep Northup, Anne M. [KY-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Norwood, Charlie [GA-9] - 1/26/2005 Rep Nunes, Devin [CA-21] - 1/26/2005 Rep Osborne, Tom [NE-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Otter, C. L. (Butch) [ID-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] - 2/2/2005 Rep Peterson, Collin C. [MN-7] - 2/2/2005 Rep Pickering, Charles W. (Chip) [MS-3] - 2/2/2005 Rep Pitts, Joseph R. [PA-16] - 1/26/2005 Rep Radanovich, George [CA-19] - 1/26/2005 Rep Ramstad, Jim [MN-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Rogers, Mike [MI-8] - 1/26/2005 Rep Rogers, Mike D. [AL-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Rohrabacher, Dana [CA-46] - 1/26/2005 Rep Royce, Edward R. [CA-40] - 1/26/2005 Rep Ryan, Paul [WI-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Sessions, Pete [TX-32] - 1/26/2005 Rep Shadegg, John B. [AZ-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Shaw, E. Clay, Jr. [FL-22] - 1/26/2005 Rep Shuster, Bill [PA-9] - 1/26/2005 Rep Simpson, Michael K. [ID-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Smith, Lamar [TX-21] - 1/26/2005 Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] - 1/26/2005 Rep Sweeney, John E. [NY-20] - 1/26/2005 Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. [CO-6] - 1/26/2005 Rep Thomas, William M. [CA-22] - 1/26/2005 Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] - 2/2/2005 Rep Turner, Michael R. [OH-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] - 1/26/2005 Rep Weldon, Dave [FL-15] - 1/26/2005 Rep Wicker, Roger F. [MS-1] - 2/2/2005 Rep Wilson, Joe [SC-2] - 1/26/2005 Rep Wolf, Frank R. [VA-10] - 2/2/2005
Aired 1/26/05 LOU DOBBS, CNN
PILGRIM: The president's proposal was critiqued by Representative James Sensenbrenner, who says it lacks detail. Sensenbrenner's own plan toughens standards for issuing driver's licenses to what he calls foreign visitors; aliens must prove that they are here lawfully; the license would expire when their visa does; and the bill also calls for closing a three-mile hole in the U.S.- Mexican border fence.
REP. JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R), CHAIRMAN, JUDICIARY COMMITTEE: American citizens have a right to know who is in their country, that people are who they say they are and that the name on the driver's license is the real holder's name, not some alias.
PILGRIM: Sensenbrenner pointed out that Mohammad Atta, a 9/11 terrorist, received a six-month visa to stay in the United States, yet received a Florida driver's license good for six years. The Sensenbrenner proposal already has political battle scars when it originally was part of the intelligence bill last December.
Today, attacked by Democrats on the hill, Congresswoman Jane Harman today issued a statement saying the laws call for states to provide tamper-proof driver's licenses. She said the Sensenbrenner proposal will not make Americans safer. She also criticized President Bush for not demanding full funding for 10,000 border guards called for in the intelligence reform bill.
Sensenbrenner today rallied against that attack saying the current bill is bipartisan with 115 co-sponsors.
PILGRIM: The Sensenbrenner bill also takes issue with the system where immigrants seek asylum. He says it's abused by terrorists, and he wants to allow immigration judges to determine the credibility in asylum cases so terrorists cannot get into the country on false pretexts -- Lou.
DOBBS: You know, we've reached a great point in this country, when there is a debate even over whether or not people who are not citizens of this country can receive a driver's license, let alone whether they're illegal or not, and the very idea that a president could be talking about immigration reform, but his Homeland Security secretary is saying, well, we can't really be bothered with adding another 2,000 Border Patrol agents to 2,000- or 3,000-mile the border.
PILGRIM: The good part of this is everyone is calling attention to it as much as they can, and it's very, very visible now, the gaps in the system -- Lou.
DOBBS: And our sense of absurdity is being overwhelmed, as it often is in Washington, D.C., and, hopefully, a few people's sense of alarm as well.
--snip--
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0501/26/ldt.01.html
A national ID card or even state driver's licenses tied to a common database will not do anything to make America safer from terrorists. Remember how many of the terrorists got their driver's licenses in the first place? They were sold to them by corrupt state employees with Access.
And when they manage to create fraudulent national id cards? And they will. Alot of the document fraud is by foreign govts.
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I happen to like JD. Noope I didn't catch him. Fixed the list so it's in state alphabetical order now. reply #26.
Reply #26 I just took some time to do just that.
Sorry, I knew I should have. Damned if I do, damned if I don't.
CO-6 Rep Tancredo, Thomas G. 1/26/2005 signed it.
Thought putting the list in state alphabetical order would help ya'll.
Ain't it nice to have friends in low places.
Soldiers spend hours tracking illegals on the fort (Fort Huachuca, AZ)
I agree, and I did check it out, and comment. The flood of illegals is a symptom of a much larger issue that would have to be addressed to stop the flood. It's the larger issue that is being avoided.
Unfortunately, my representative is Jim McDermott.
that's all I needed to know, obviously this is a good bill then!!!
I appreciate you posting the two articles--unfortunately, they don't answer the question that I have regarding Sensenbrenner's feelings about deporting illegal immigrants, not just the terrorists--
I am pretty sure he answered a question at a presser regarding this, but for the life of me, I can't remember exactly what he said---I do know that I was both surprised at his answer and disappointed.
There may not even have been an article written about it--thanks for trying to find it---
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