00                 CS FOR HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 19(STA)                                                               
01 Encouraging repeal of the Real ID Act of 2005.                                                                          
02 BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA:                                                               
03       WHEREAS the federal government has failed to show any measurable evidence that                                  
04 the implementation of the Real ID Act of 2005 will make our borders more secure and better                              
05 protect our citizens from terrorism; and                                                                                
06       WHEREAS the state, under the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United                                  
07 States, has always exercised its exclusive power to establish standards and regulations for the                         
08 issuance of Alaska state driver's licenses and Alaska state identification cards; and                                   
09       WHEREAS the federal government imposes a huge fiscal burden on the Division of                                  
10 Motor Vehicles to implement the Real ID Act of 2005; and                                                                
11       WHEREAS noncompliance with the Real ID Act of 2005 will result in the federal                                   
12 government punishing individual Alaskans for the actions of the state by placing limitations                            
13 on Alaska residents' freedom of travel and access to federal facilities;                                                
14       BE IT RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature does not believe government                                    
15 should wage the war on terrorism at the expense of states' rights and liberties of citizens                             
16 protected by the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights; and be it                                           
01       FURTHER RESOLVED that the Alaska State Legislature does not believe the Real                                    
02 ID Act of 2005 will make the United States measurably safer and encourages the United                                   
03 States Congress to repeal the Real ID Act of 2005.                                                                      
04       COPIES of this resolution shall be sent to the Honorable George W. Bush, President                              
05 of the United States; the Honorable Richard B. Cheney, Vice-President of the United States                              
06 and President of the U.S. Senate; the Honorable Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the U.S. House of                              
07 Representatives; the Honorable Ted Stevens and the Honorable Lisa Murkowski, U.S.                                       
08 Senators, and the Honorable Don Young, U.S. Representative, members of the Alaska                                       
09 delegation in Congress; and all other members of the 110th United States Congress.