2008 Presidential Candidates' Position on REALID

Complete information not yet available. We are currently surveying the candidates. Some of the responses are not very clear. Candidates in blue are still in the race.

It should be noted that Ron Paul has established a very clear and consistent record in opposition to government creation/expansion of a national id card system and database.

AGAINST REALID AND FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES:

John Edwards

Ron Paul

Dennis Kucinich

AGAINST REALID AS UNFUNDED MANDATE:

Bill Richardson

Barack Obama

SOME OBJECTIONS NOTED:

Mike Huckabee: "doesn't think DMV workers should be in the immigration business."

Sam Brownback:"against REAL ID, lets use social security instead"

IN FAVOR OF REALID:

Rudy Giuliani

Mitt Romney

Mike Gravel

Chris Dodd

Duncan Hunter

Tom Tompson

NO RESPONCE:

John McCain

Hillary Clinton

IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT:

The following Senators were most prominent in the effort to kill Real ID during it's passage: Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn), Sam Brownback (R-Kans), Hillary Clinton (D-NY), Richard Durbin (D-Ill), Diane Feinstein (D-Calif), Chuck Hagel (R-Neb), Edward Kennedy (D-Mass), Patrick Leahy (D-Vt), Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn), Richard luga (R-Ind), John McCain (R-Ariz), Ken Salazar (D-Colo), John Sununu (R-NH). Unfortunately all the above voted in favor of REAL ID in the end.

In the House of Representatives there were 58 Nays which included

Abercrombie
Baldwin
Becerra
Blumenauer
Capuano
Carson
Clay
Coble
Conyers
Davis (IL)
Delahunt
Duncan
Farr
Filner
Frank (MA)
Gordon
Grijalva
Gutierrez
Hinchey
Holt

Honda
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jones (OH)
Kucinich
Lee
Lewis (GA)
Maloney
Markey
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McKinney
Meehan
Meeks (NY)
Miller, George
Napolitano
Oberstar
Olver
Owens
Pallone

Pastor
Paul
Payne
Rangel
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanders
Schakowsky
Serrano
Stark
Thompson (CA)
Tierney
Towns
Velázquez
Waters
Watt
Weiner
Wexler
Woolsey


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