Nicole Malachowski

And that's a very real burden for tens of millions of Americans.

And people need to understand that.

Right.

Yeah, no, I understand.

And it is a big hassle.

Let me tell you, I, in 2001, after being in the military active duty for five years, when I married my husband, I did in fact choose to take his last name.

I made my maiden name a second middle name.

Now I'm thinking I'm, you know, I'm doing something really smart here.

All the cool people have middle names, right?

And so we will be married 25 years this year.

And I can tell you that it's,

I still have problems pop up.

It just happened the other day when I was trying to do some business travel going through Clear.

They didn't understand how I could have two middle names and I had to pull out two other forms of ID just to prove to them that I had four complete names and I was in fact who I was.

This is 25 years later.

So I think this is a little bit more complicated than they're making it out to be.

But more importantly, the logistical and fiscal constraints are real barriers to this plan.

Can they be overcome?

You bet.

Through a bipartisan answer and collaboration?