The Internet Is Full Of Jokes About America's Real ID Deadline, And I'm Laughing Through My Confusion

Way, way, waaaay backmost in 2005, Carrie Underwood won American Idol, Tom Cruise jumped connected Oprah's couch, and Congress passed the Real ID Act. The enactment came retired of the 9/11 Commission's proposal for the authorities to standardize ID requirements for aerial travel, visiting immoderate national facilities, and going into atomic powerfulness plants.

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