Federal requirements for driver’s licenses a costly headache for states
by Katherine Glover
Medill News Service
April 26, 2007

The Real ID Act sets minimum security standards for state IDs, a response to the fact that several Sept. 11 hijackers had U.S. driver’s licenses, some of them fraudulent. But the act was tacked onto a military appropriations bill, and critics say it was passed with little debate by Congress and no input from the states, which will wind up footing 99 percent of a very big bill.

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Posted on Thursday, April 26th, 2007 at 12:00 pm