I met a panhandler who said he has two uncashed paychecks because he has no valid ID and no way to remedy that situation. Who knows whether that's true or not, but I liked the comments of someone on Daily Kos enough to look up her old posts, and I realized that she, too, has been caught up in ID hell.
What if we jobbed, IDed, bank-accounted folks here were in some horrible earthquake or fire, and we lost all of our ID, and all of the old bills and bank statements we might use to replace our ID? We'd be in deep trouble.
So, I think it's really important -- in a small-scale, doable way -- for Congress to set up some kind of procedures that people without the right documents to get normal passports and drivers' licenses can use to get valid passports and licenses.
Otherwise, we could end up with a huge population of U.S. citizens who dwell in poverty, in the shadows, simply because their passports and licenses are lost or expired.