“In a closed door meeting where no newspeople or cameras were allowed. How about naming some names?”
Sigh.................
Didn’t the 9/11 scumbag hijackers have drivers licenses? Yeah, this is a good idea.
Press Release
For Immediate Release
June 11, 2007
Peterson Announces Relaxed Travel Restrictions
within Western Hemisphere
Washington, DC - U.S. Rep. John E. Peterson, R-Pleasantville, announced that the Departments of State and Homeland Security have relaxed current travel restrictions for U.S. citizens traveling abroad within the Western Hemisphere in response to an overwhelming backlog of passport applications.
In a statement jointly released by the State and Homeland Security Departments, travel changes are as follow: “U.S. citizens traveling to Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean and Bermuda who have applied for but not yet received passports can nevertheless temporarily enter and depart from the United States by air with a government issued photo identification and State Department official proof of application for a passport through September 30, 2007. Children under the age of 16 traveling with their parents or legal guardian will be permitted to travel with the child’s proof of application.”
The Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative (WHTI) was mandated by Congress in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to strengthen border security and facilitate entry into the United States for citizens and legitimate international visitors. WHTI requirements for air travel took effect on January 23, 2007 and have largely been the cause of this current backlog.
Travelers who have not applied for a passport should not expect to be accommodated. U.S. citizens with pending passport applications can obtain proof of application at: http://travel.state.gov. This accommodation does not affect entry requirements to other countries. Americans traveling to a country that requires passports must still present those documents.
Constituents taking advantage of this new temporary exemption can print-out the online passport status check that may be accessed through http://travel.state.gov/passport. This status check can be used to prove that a passport application has been received by the State Department.
For information about the passport application process, the status of a passport application, or an emergency passport, contact the National Passport Information Center (NPIC) at 1-877-487-2778.
Constituents are also strongly encouraged to contact Congressman Peterson’s district office at 814-238-1776 with any questions regarding the passport application process.
Peterson added: “My staff is here to assist anyone with specific international travel questions. I do, however, urge all travelers not to wait until a few days before your departure scheduled date. Short notice limits our ability to best serve one’s passport needs.”
http://www.house.gov/list/press/pa05_peterson/passport.html
FYI
Just remember that all new drivers licenses and passports will work best if you put them in the microwave for thirty seconds...
There, now it's correct.
How about letting people present their passport istead of their driver’s license? Makes just as much sense.
We all have to get new DL’s in Texas in ‘08. Proof of citizenship is required.
http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/112706kvuedriverslicensechanges-eh.3050bcea.html
Yup. That’ll do it. Just leave it up to this country’s departments of driver license and highway safety.
All I see happening here is the imposition of the National ID card at the state level to go around the relatively recent passport requirement, one which the US Govt. imposed anyway, and the issuance of passports is something the US Govt. controls.
Here we go again. National ID disguised as drivers licenses.
I have no problem with states requiring proof of citizenship in obtaining a drivers license. I have huge problems with drivers licenses being federalized in any way!
A passport is a specific legal document, recognized with certain protocols under international law. Replacing that with a US driver’s license that may or may not mean something and whose definition is subject to Congressional whims, disturbs me.
U.S. officials support driver’s licence as alternative to passports
jorge bush and jerkoff chertoff...backdoor destroying the US....
fake drivers licenses can be purchased on any street corner...
the public will feel so much safer as these a-holes surrender up the US to the illegals!!!
all the f’n muzzie terrorists had US drivers licenses...
for once.....with Homeland Security....jorge and jerkoff should do their jobs!!!
ping