mr. chairman , the problem with this bill is that it is an immigration bill posing as an identification bill .  instead of listening to what the states told us needed to be done to make driver 's licenses more secure , what we have done is to basically make state motor vehicle employees unwitting immigration agents .  it does little to improve homeland security , and it is certain to prove overwhelming and ineffective .  now , i support what the gentleman from virginia ( chairman tom davis ) is trying to do to improve the integrity of driver 's licenses , but i find it curious that the leadership of the house has chosen to largely ignore the multiple references in the 9/11 commission report to the value of on-card biometric technology in improving the integrity of identification cards .  the problem is that these digital images are not sufficient .  matching the image with the face is more prone to error than the technology that would use biometric data .  two fingerprints transformed into numeric algorithm , that works .  what we have here does not work .  i think we are going to find the states letting us know that .  unfortunately , it will be too late .  we will miss an opportunity .  