House Panel Approves Measure to Require Women to Register for Draft

[CK_John]

The House Armed Services Committee on Wednesday approved by a narrow margin an amendment to a defense bill to require women to register for the draft.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican from California, proposed the amendment to lift the restriction on women registering for the selective service at a committee-wide mark-up session of the proposed fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

"Here is why I think this is important; it doesn't matter in this debate whether you think women should be in the infantry or be in special operations," Hunter said during the session on Wednesday night. "I personally don't. If we had that vote in committee today I would vote against women being in infantry and special operations.

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[DURHAM D]

1. I need to find my ERA buttons. nt

[CK_John]

2. GOP trying to put something in the defense budget and put Hillary

in a bad place.

[DURHAM D]

3. Hillary will have the same response as I do. nt

[DetlefK]

4. Oh, I would like to propose a kind of draft conservatives will hate:

You get drafted and then you have to make a choice:
* military service - short service, good pay, you could end up in really dangerous situations
* civil service - long service, bad pay, work with minors/old people/disabled people/poor people


Just imagine: Half of US's youth drafted into positions that make them witness first-hand how society treats the old, the disabled and the poor. Do you think, they will vote GOP afterwards?

[djean111]

5. Depends on who is means-testing Social Security, sending jobs overseas,

cutting welfare, and propping up private prisons, and keeping health care out of affordable reach, though.