[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 86 (Tuesday, May 23, 1995)]
[Senate]
[Page S7258]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]


                         ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS

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                           SUPPORT OF S. 507
 Mr. GRASSLEY. Mr. President, I am pleased to be an original 
cosponsor of S. 507, the False Identification Act of 1995, and I wish 
to congratulate the distinguished Senator from South Dakota for 
offering this important piece of legislation. S. 507 makes it a crime 
to transport through the mails false drivers licenses and other forms 
of ID to minors and lowers the number of false forms of ID necessary to 
trigger criminal liability from 5 to 3. And what do children do with 
phony drivers licenses? They purchase beer and liquor, gain admittance 
to bars and taverns, and purchase pornographic materials. A lot has 
been said recently about the need to protect our children from growing 
up too fast. S. 507 is an important step in that direction, by striking 
at unscrupulous, profiteering adults who provide children with the 
means of obtaining liquor and pornography.
  Let me be clear on one fact about this legislation and the illicit 
sale of false identification which is not mentioned in the body of S. 
507. The distribution of false ID cards directly involves interstate 
commerce, Mr. President.
  I ask that a copy of advertisements, from the National Examiner be 
printed in the Record.
  The material follows:
                             Miscellaneous


                             i.d. cards $10

       Professional high quality equipment, expert settings, 
     lamination. Outsmarts competition. Money back guarantee.


                             photo id $8.00

       Professionally Laminated Processed with Drivers License 
     Equipment. Avoid Cheap Imitations and Embarrassment. Free 
     Blank Birth Certificate not a Government document. Cash MO 
     Fastest Service Guaranteed, Two $15.00 Photo Complete 
     Description.


                           blank certificates

       Birth, Baptismal, Highschool, College, Marriage, Divorce, 
     Awards, Wills. Guaranteed Realistic, Parchment Paper Embossed 
     Gold Seals. U.S. Canada. All Or Any Eight $12.00 Cash, M.O. 
     Same Day Service, Not Government Document.


                             photo id $8.00

       Professionally Laminated Processed with Drivers License 
     Equipment. Avoid Cheap Imitations and Embarrassment. Free 
     Blank Birth Certificate not a Government document. Cash MO 
     Fastest Service Guaranteed, Two $15.00 Photo Complete 
     Description.


                           blank certificates

       Birth, Baptismal, Highschool, College, Marriage, Divorce, 
     Awards, Wills. Guaranteed Realistic. Parchment Paper Embossed 
     Gold Seals. U.S. Canada. All Or Any Eight $12.00 Cash, M.O. 
     Same Day Service, Not Government Document.


                      ``phony'' driver's licenses!

       Free Information

  Mr. GRASSLEY. This publication, which is openly available at 
supermarkets and convenience stores across the country, contains 
advertisements for--in the words of one of the advertisements--phony 
drivers licenses.
  Mr. President, I submit that there is no socially redeeming use for 
phony drivers licenses. Indeed, the only conceivable use of such 
documents is to subvert State and Federal law. And as the Supreme Court 
recently reaffirmed in United States verses Lopez, on page 9 of the 
slip opinion, ``The power of Congress to keep the channels of 
interstate commerce free from immoral and injurious uses has been 
frequently sustained, and it is no longer open to question.'' Simply 
put, Mr. President, S. 507 helps to ensure that interstate commerce 
will not be used to further immoral activities, like providing children 
with phony drivers licenses so that they can purchase liquor and beer 
illegally. That is why I am pleased to support S. 507.
  From the beginning of our country, States have prohibited the sale of 
liquor to children. S. 507 helps those States by providing Federal help 
to combat what is essentially a Federal problem--the interstate 
transfer of false forms of ID to children. I urge my colleagues to 
support S. 507.


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