Congress drops plans to make women register for the draft
By: Leo Shane III, Military Times, November 29, 2016 (Photo Credit: Paula Bronstein/Getty Images )
Lawmakers have officially dropped plans to make women register for the draft, instead opting for a review of the ongoing need for the Selective Service System.
The controversial provision had been part of early drafts of the annual defense authorization bill, and narrowly passed a House Armed Services Committee vote last spring. A Senate panel followed suit a few months later.
But conservatives in both chambers objected to the provision and stripped it out of the final legislative draft unveiled Tuesday.
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