Day: April 26, 2007

ARLINGTON, Va.–One of the chief Republican architects of the controversial federal Real ID law on Thursday said the forthcoming nationalized identification cards are not an “unfunded mandate” and called for hearings to dispel myths about the proposed system. Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the ranking member of a U.S. House of Representatives government oversight panel, said he has asked committee chairman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) to hold hearings to explore questions related to the requirements, which were approved by Congress as part of an emergency military-spending bill two years ago. “States don’t have to participate,” Davis told attendees at