A Sergeant-at-Arms “visitor tracking” program to control access to the Capitol Complex by requiring all visitors to provide official photo IDs and submit to digital background checks will produce a “logistical nightmare” that “fundamentally alters our federal legislature,” a House committee was told Feb. 17. “I note with great alarm the suggestion by the House Sergeant at Arms, who serves on the Capitol Police Board, to impose a visitor tracking system akin to the WAVES system employed at the White House,” Demand Progress Education Fund Policy Director Daniel Schuman testified before the House Committee on Administration. “Such a system would be a logistical nightmare, a waste of resources, and fundamentally alter our federal legislature. Such a proposal appears to ignore even the most basic facts about how a representative democracy functions, how Congress operates, and how journalism works,” Schuman testified. “It also misses practical realities like the fact that millions of …