State lawmakers take Real ID battle to the airport

Legislative politics hit the road Sunday as Republican and DFL lawmakers stood at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport publicly urging one another to acquiesce to their solutions to Minnesota's Real ID problem.

Elected officials are running out of time to reach an agreement before a January 2018 deadline to comply with a federal law intended to tighten security of driver's licenses and other forms of identification — known as Real ID — or Minnesotans will have to use a passport, a special enhanced driver's license or some other acceptable federal ID to get through airport security or to enter certain federal facilities.

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