Help Outlaw Real ID in Pennsylvania

From: AFTF Pennsylvania [aftfpennsylvania@gmail.com]
Subject: Real ID and Privacy Update 11 May 09
To: Jim Compton [comptonjr@comcast.net]
Date: Monday, May 11, 2009, 10:03 AM


Good day, Volunteers,

Last week we had some positive news. First the Senate Communications and Technology Committee will have a hearing this Wednesday June 13th on Senate bill 621, (Real ID), and Senate bill 623, (biometrics).
Senator Folmer is the chair of the committee and scheduled the meeting at 9:00 a.m., in Room 8E-B East Wing.

If you can make it to the meeting please do. We’d like to see the room overflowing. Plan to arrive early since one never knows about traffic. I park on City Island and take the 10 – 15 min walk to the Capitol. Cost is $5 for full day parking on the island.

Second, Representative Rohrer has introduced his bill to prohibit Real ID in PA. It’s House Bill 1443. So far, we have 55 co-sponsors on the bill. They are:

ROHRER, BENNINGHOFF, BRENNAN, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, CREIGHTON, CUTLER, DENLINGER, DeWEESE, ELLIS, FABRIZIO, FLECK, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HARRIS, HORNAMAN, HUTCHINSON, KAUFFMAN, KELLER, KORTZ, MARSHALL, MELIO, METZGAR, MILLARD, MILNE, MUNDY, MUSTIO, PALLONE, PETRARCA, RAPP, REICHLEY, ROAE, ROCK, SAYLOR, SMITH, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TALLMAN, TRUE, WAGNER, WHEATLEY and GABLER.

House Bill 1443 and Senate Bill 621 are essentially the same. House Bill 1443 as been assigned to the Representative Thomas’s Intergovernmental Affairs Committee again. We’ll need to keep pressure on Representative Thomas to have a committee hearing on the bill.

Here are the members of the House Intergovernmental Affairs Committee:

W. Curtis Thomas, Chairman; 
Matthew D. Bradford, Secretary; 
H. Scott Conklin, Subcommittee Chairman on Information Technology; 
Bryan R. Lentz, Subcommittee Chairman on Federal State Relations; Chris Ross, Chairman; Tim 
Krieger, Secretary; 
 Keith Gillespie, Subcommittee Chairman on Information Technology; Duane 
Milne, Subcommittee Chairman on Federal State Relations; Mark B. Cohen; Peter J. Daley; Daniel J. Deasy;
 David R. Kessler; 
Thaddeus 
 Kirkland; Kathy 

Manderino; Tony J. Payton, Jr.; 
James R. Roebuck, Jr.; John P. 
Sabatina, Jr.; 
Rosita C. Youngblood; Jim Christiana; 
Frank A. Farry; Matt
 
Gabler; Seth M. Grove; 
Carl Walker Metzgar; 
Donna Oberlander; Will 
Tallman.

Calls, emails, and letters will help increase the number of Senators and House members who co-sponsor these bills. I’ve got work to do too. My Representative is a “freshman” and I’ll do my best to bring her up to date. She did co-sponsor House Resolution 95 on the Tenth Amendment, but has not yet co-sponsored HB 1443.

Keep up the great work and keep your chin high.

Yours in Liberty,

Jim