Posted on 05/17/2016 11:11:35 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Buckling under conservative pressure, the Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft.
The committee's chairman, Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Texas, said in a statement Tuesday the action was taken to prevent what he called a "reckless policy" from moving forward without closer study of its impact.
"I have the utmost respect and deepest appreciation for the young women who bravely volunteer to serve our country, but I am adamantly opposed to coercing America's daughters to sign up for the Selective Service at 18 years of age," Sessions said.
The Rules Committee wields substantial influence over legislation before it moves to the House floor. The full House planned to start work on the bill on Tuesday. A Senate bill does include a version of the provision, so the congressional debate over whether women should register isn't over.
Rep. Steny Hoyer of Maryland, the No. 2 Democrat in the House, criticized the committee move, casting it as an attempt by Republicans to avoid subjecting "their members to a vote on equality for women, and they ought to."
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What moron wants women to register for the draft?
The N.O.W. Gang will be yelling and screaming at Congress. They didn’t pass equal rights.
John McCain.
We have enough trouble keeping families together.
“What moron wants women to register for the draft?”
Well we know that there’s at least one and he’s named Steny Hoyer! What a despicable RAT turd! I had a Steny Hoyer once. They had to burn it off of my a$$!
America does not need nor should it subject its vulnerable young women to combat roles for any reason!
Under Obama guidelines, does a male who identifies as a female have to register for the draft?
John McCain put it into the Senate bill.
So, women get the same pay in the military, the same jobs, the same promotions but men 18 - 25 must register for “Selective Service” (Not a draft). If men fail to register for Selective Service they will feel the full wrath of the Federal Government. Men who fail to register are in violation of federal law, as such are not eligible for any federal benefits including but not limited to education loans. So, tell me again, if they have all the same benefits why do you NOT want women to register for selective service? A “draft” is a different thing altogether, and can exclude women if it came to a “draft.” The way I see it, but you want to be paid like the big dogs, you had better be ready to run with the big dogs. Women should be required to meet ALL of the same standards. For the record I have a 20 year old daughter so I have skin in the game.
“What moron wants women to register for the draft?”
The same that wants men.
Here’s an idea....let’s go back to Reagan’s 1980 campaign promise and just ELIMINATE the Selective Service System.
It’s nothing but a glorified mailing list anyhow. Reagan rightly pointed out it costs buckets of taxpayer money to staff and maintain, compiling lists of young men which, at the end of the day, are frankly of little value. (for one thing young males are highly mobile and not always easy to find, for another Congress is unlikely to ever have the guts to pull the trigger on a draft anyway).
Reagan got elected, and with the Evil Empire on the march I guess he thought better of the timing of killing it. But he was onto the right idea.
“So, tell me again, if they have all the same benefits why do you NOT want women to register for selective service?”
I’ve asked that many times.
All I get are white knights that proudly proclaim that they have no idea.
They call it equality for women. But women aren’t barred from voluntary joining the forces, they just aren’t forced to.
Just like the uproar over NC bathroom law, it doesn’t bar private business from any bathroom policy they want to have, it just doesn’t force them to have a trans policy.
What the left calls equality through gov’t force, I call freedom.
Thank you Lord. At least there are a few in WDC with a grain of sense.
“What moron wants women to register for the draft?”
I do. Because there’s no better way to put an end to this nonsense about women being equal to men than by making women equal to men!
“Buckling under conservative pressure, the Republican-led House Rules Committee pulled a legislative sleight of hand and stripped a provision from the annual defense policy bill that would have required women between the ages of 18 and 25 to sign up for a military draft.”
The GOP “buckled under pressure”. And it was placed in the defense bill by John McCain.
God I hate republicans.
In a way DACOWITS takes a BOOT IN THE A**!
“...”their members to a vote on equality for women, ..”
It is not a matter of equality. We are created men and women for a reason, for a purpose. Should men demand “equality” by forcing the government and society” by protesting and whining for not being able to bear children.
We are all equal in the eyes of God, and the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of justice.
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