CAGW VP Policy David Williams To Speak on Panel

Washington, D.C. - On Friday, July 24, 2009 CAGW Vice-President for Policy, David Williams will be participating in a Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by the Cato Institute:

Assessing the Options: REAL ID,
PASS ID, or No National ID at All

featuring
Christopher Calabrese
Counsel, Technology & Liberty Program, American Civil Liberties Union
David E. Williams
Vice President, Policy, Citizens Against Government Waste
and
Jim Harper
Director of Information Policy Studies, Cato Institute

The introduction of a bill called the PASS ID Act in the Senate has renewed the debate about whether the United States should have a national ID. PASS ID purports to improve on the moribund REAL ID Act, but the central question is whether there should be a national ID at all. A national ID would cost billions of dollars, place sensitive identity documents into insecure databases, and give the federal government more control over Americans’ private lives. Join us for a discussion of the weaknesses that PASS ID and REAL ID share with any national ID system, and why diverse, competitive identity and credentialing systems are superior.

Friday, July 24, 2009
12:30 p.m.
B-354 Rayburn House Office Building
(Lunch Included)

To schedule an interview, please call Leslie Paige at 202.467.5300. 

Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, abuse, and mismanagement in government.