Speech #1060002473

I would have to agree with you on your concerns with NHTSAs proposed rule for it goes far beyond Congressional intent. raising serious privacy and civil liberty questions. To address your concerns. on October 1998. the House of Representatives voted 333 to 95 in support of the omnibus appropriations conference report for fiscal year 1999. The following day. President Clinton signed it into law. Contained within this appropriation bill was a provision which prohibits NHTSA from issuing a final rule on national identification cards as required under section 656 of the 1996 Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act. In short. Congress blocked implementation of this rule.