Congress drops language letting military draft women from defense bill
By Juliegrace Brufke
December 7, 2021 4:02pm Updated
Congress has dropped a provision from the annual defense spending bill mandating that women register for the draft.
Lawmakers have pulled a requirement that women register for the military draft from the final version of the annual defense bill, which was unveiled Tuesday.
The omission of the provision is a win for conservative Republicans like Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Rep. Chip Roy of Texas, who had slammed the proposal as “[t]otal, complete bulls—” on social media back in September.
Politico first reported that the language would be dropped from the bill.
The language requiring women to register for the draft was included in an initial version of the bill, which passed the House in September.
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