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A NATIONAL ID CARD: BIG GOVERNMENT AT
ITS WORST OR TECHNOLOGICAL EFFICIENCY?

STANFORD
LIBRARIES

HEARING

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH,
NATURAL RESOURCES, AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT
REFORM AND OVERSIGHT
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

ONE HUNDRED FIFTH CONGRESS

SECOND SESSION

SEPTEMBER 17, 1998

Serial No. 105-191

Printed for the use of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight

52-910

DEPOSITORY

JUN 0 3 1999

Stanford University
Jonsson Library

U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON: 1999

For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office

Superintendent of Documents, Congressional Sales Office, Washington, DC 20402

ISBN 0-16-058433-7

COMMITTEE ON GOVERNMENT REFORM AND OVERSIGHT

DAN BURTON, Indiana, Chairman

KEVIN BINGER, Staff Director

DANIEL R. MOLL, Deputy Staff Director

DAVID A. KASS, Deputy Counsel and Parliamentarian
LISA SMITH ARAFUNE, Deputy Chief Clerk

PHIL SCHILIRO, Minority Staff Director

SUBCOMMITTEE ON NATIONAL ECONOMIC GROWTH, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS

CONTENTS

Hearing held on September 17, 1998

Statement of:

Cross, Celene, identity theft victim, Macomb, IL; Marvin Young, identity

theft victim, Oakland, CA; Gregory T. Nojeim, legislative counsel,

American Civil Liberties Union; Solange Bitol, legislative counsel,

American Civil Liberties Union; and Grover Norquist, president, Amer-

icans for Tax Reform

Flaherty, Brian, Connecticut State representative; George Grindley, Geor-

gia State representative; and Richard D. Holcomb, commissioner, Vir-

ginia Department of Motor Vehicles

Letters, statements, etc., submitted for the record by:

Bitol, Solange, legislative counsel, American Čivil Liberties Union, pre-

pared statement of

Cross, Celene, identity theft victim, Macomb, IL, prepared statement

of

Flaherty, Brian, Connecticut State representative, prepared statement

of

Grindley, George, Georgia State representative:

Information concerning a training manual

Prepared statement of

64

Holcomb, Richard D., commissioner, Virginia Department of Motor Vehi-

cles:

Information concerning comments to NHTSA

Prepared statement of

115

107

Kucinich, Hon. Dennis J., a Representative in Congress from the State
of Ohio, prepared statement of

61

McIntosh, Hon. David M., a Representative in Congress from the State

of Indiana:

Prepared statement of

Prepared statement of NHTSA

123

Nojeim, Gregory T., legislative counsel, American Civil Liberties Union,

prepared statement of

19

Norquist, Grover, president, Americans for Tax Reform, prepared state-

ment of

37

Young, Marvin, identity theft victim, Oakland, CA, prepared statement

of

15

(III)

6