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Apr 13, 2014, 12:26 am

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chessman

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Originally Posted by alexmt

I understand that, but that's not the letter of the rule. It clearly refers to a driver licence as "state-issued" and a DC licence is not, in fact, state issued. A clear and obvious oversight? Absolutely. But imagine you're new to the high stress job of protecting the nation's air travel infrastructure, bla bla bla and all you remember is "state-issued photo ID... oh ...., DC isn't a state... is that okay? *pauses* They GOTTA be okay with DC it's the country's capital but... better apologise and ask the boss just to be 100% sure"

In all, NOT a huge deal.

Many laws/regulations use "state" as shorthand and define the word to mean states and DC, for example 49 CFR §1570.3. I would be surprised if this were not the definition of "state" meant here.

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