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On January 18, Democrat Montana governor Brian Schweitzer sent a letter to the governors of Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Washington, asking them to join him "in resisting the DHS [Department of Homeland Security] coercion to comply with the provisions of REAL ID."
"Secretary Chertoff has stated that every state must file an extension within 60 days of the final rule publication or he will, beginning on May 11 this year, direct the Transportation Security Agency and other federal offices to subject citizens of noncompliant states to secondary screening every time they wish to board a commercial aircraft or enter a federal office building," continued the governor. "I would like us to speak with one, unified voice and demand that Congress step in and fix this mess."
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Homeland Security spokeswoman Laura Keehner was adamant that DHS will not back down, however. "That will mean real consequences for their citizens starting in May if ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Montana leads resistance to real ID.(Inside Track)