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The Republican congressman from Wisconsin objects to one part of the proposal put forth by state legislative leaders to spend $22 million that had been earmarked for implementing the federal Real ID program.
The law authored by Sensenbrenner is designed to create a more secure identification card in all 50 states.
A $10 fee was placed on Wisconsin driver’s licenses starting this year to start paying for it. But the bipartisan state budget-balancing plan put forth on Monday would raid that money.
Sensenbrenner says that is a breach of faith with those who have been paying the fee. He urged the Legislature to reject the plan, calling it a “fiscal shell game.”
