Immediately after passing a resolution to refer mandatory government health care to the voters, the Oregon House today passed SB 1080, a “driver’s license” bill intended to move Oregon closer to compliance with the Federal mandates for a national ID card.
Sold as an effort to prevent illegals from getting driver’s licenses, it places additional burdens and privacy invasions on Americans. Numerous other states have refused to capitulate to the demands of the Department of Homeland Security and subject their citizens to the heavy hand of the Federal Government, but in Oregon, the only legislators to oppose the bill did so because they did not want to inconvenience people who are here in violation of the law.
The bill requires that you surrender a Social Security Number to apply for a driver’s license, and unlike current law, makes no exception for Americans who have chosen not to accept a Federal ID number.
Every single Republican voted in favor of the bill. The Democrats who opposed it, for the sake of illegal’s, not for the protection of Americans were:
Barnhart
Bonamici
Buckley
Cannon
Dingfelder
Gelser
Greenlick
Holvey
Kotek
MacPherson
Nathanson
Nolan
Rosenbaum
Shields
Tomei