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...column on October 4 (“An Army of Indentured Servants”) Susan E. McGregor ’05 portrayed H.R. 163, a bill proposing to reintroduce the draft, and its “plan for indentured servitude to the President of the United States” as a viable proposal of which we should be afraid. In a display of fabulously bad timing for McGregor, the House suddenly took up H.R. 163 on October 5 and defeated it by a vote...
Both the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the House Armed Services Committee were on the record strongly opposing a draft and the bill. A week ago, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News wrote that H.R. 163 had “virtually no support on Capitol Hill.” Indeed, until Tuesday, the bill had seen its last action twenty months ago, when it was referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need...
Like many who spread rumors of a new draft, McGregor failed to note that H.R. 163 was sponsored by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), a liberal Democrat and consistent critic of the president and the war in Iraq. All of his co-sponsors are also liberal anti-war Democrats. Do these people really want to give the president what McGregor describes as “a cost-free standing army at his disposal?...
...course they don’t. Snopes.com, the leading debunker of urban legends, says H.R. 163 and its identical Senate version “were introduced not by legislators genuinely seeking to reinstate the draft, but by Democrats seeking to make an anti-war statement...
...most of his co-sponsors voted against their own bill in yesterday’s vote. Only one of fourteen co-sponsors voted in favor; Rangel and 11 others voted no; and the rest did not vote. It is clear that they intended only to instill fear of the draft rather than reinstate...