Real ID

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has decided to postpone imposing Real ID requirements on New Hampshire citizens.

DHS announced that the government would give New Hampshire until December 31, 2009 to meet the Real ID requirements. The extension means that Granite State residents can continue to use their drivers' licenses for federal purposes.

"I am pleased that the federal government has recognized that the citizens of New Hampshire should not be singled out, and that it will not impose Real ID requirements here beginning in May," Gov. Lynch said in a statement.

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March 27, 2008

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John Stephen, a former prosecutor and assistant attorney general, is seeking the GOP nomination for Congress in the 1st distric
GOFFSTOWN -- Republican congressional candidate John Stephen said the Real ID bill passed by Congress was an example of the "DC values" his primary opponent, former U.S. Rep. Jeb Bradley stands for.

"That's another example of DC values creeping into New Hampshire," Stephen (R-Manchester) told the Goffstown and Weare Republican town committees last week. "Jeb Bradley was a sponsor of that bill."

Stephen and Bradley are battling each other for the right to take on freshman U.S. Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-Rochester), who defeated Bradley in the Democratic landslide election in 2006.