Two dozen House Republicans are firing a warning shot at GOP leadership: remove the provision to &#8220;draft our daughters&#8221; from the 2025 NDAA — or else.
Led by Republicans Chip Roy of Texas and Mary Miller of Illinois, the cohort of Republicans sent a letter to House Speaker Mike Johnson Thursday addressing the passage of H.R. 8070, the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2025. The NDAA&#8217;s<a href="https://www.armed-services.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/fy25_ndaa_executive_summary.pdf"> executive summary explicitly notes</a> that it &#8220;amends the Military Selective Service Act to require the registration of women for Selective Service.&#8221;
&#8220;[W]e write today in opposition to the Senate Armed Services Committee’s heinous decision to advance an NDAA that includes a provision to draft our daughters,&#8221; the Republicans wrote. &#8220;Instead of solely focusing on advancing our national security objectives, the Senate Armed Service Committee once again chose behind closed doors to report an NDAA that amends the Military Selective Service Act to register women with the selective service.&#8221;
Should they all vote against the NDAA, the bill would pass with more Democrats than Republicans voting in support.
&#8220;Forcing young women to register for the selective service is an affront to our nation’s values and does not enhance military readiness – the only metric by which Congress should measure an NDAA. This is yet another blatant attempt to advance a divisive agenda that seeks to eliminate all distinctions between males and females,&#8221; they added.
The Republicans emphasized that the GOP should not be complicit in drafting American women.
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&#8220;Under no circumstances should the House of Representatives greenlight a future that cripples the American family by sending mothers and daughters to the frontlines – drafted to be combat replacements for casualties on the battlefield – while fathers and sons stay home. A country that pursues radical social ideology over basic principles will not remain a strong, resilient nation,&#8221; they wrote.
The letter calls on Johnson to &#8220;unequivocally oppose any effort to draft our daughters,&#8221; noting that the effort has been defeated in the past and &#8220;must be defeated again.&#8221;
&#8220;The reality is, if we are a country that actively chooses to forcibly conscript our daughters, we are past the point of rescue,&#8221; they concluded.
The 24 Republicans are Roy, Miller, Bob Good of Virginia, Josh Brecheen of Oklahoma, Harriet Hageman of Wyoming, Paul Gosar of Arizona, Bill Posey of Florida, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Ralph Norman of South Carolina, Brian Babin of Texas, Eric Burlison of Missouri, Barry Moore of Alabama, Warren Davidson of Ohio, Michael Cloud of Texas, Alex Mooney of Maryland, Andy Ogles of Tennessee, Diana Harshbarger of Tennessee, Mark Green of Tennessee, Andrew Clyde of Georgia, Ben Cline of Virginia, Lauren Boebert of Colorado, Robert Aderholt of Alabama, and Keith Self of Texas.
Under Section 598A, &#8220;Selective Service System Automatic Registration,&#8221; the<a href="https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/4638/text"> bill says</a>: &#8220;Except as otherwise provided in this Act, every citizen of the United States, and every other person residing in the United States between the ages of eighteen and twenty-six shall be automatically registered by the Selective Service System.&#8221;
Johnson did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Daily Wire.
Read the full letter <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2024/09/9_19_24_Roy_Miller_Letter_to_Speaker_Johnson_re_NDAA_Female_Draft-3-1.pdf">here</a>.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/nfl" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NFL</a> fans showed off their love for the country and those who serve the United States when they broke out in chants of &#8220;USA! USA!&#8221; at the start of the 2023 NFL draft in Kansas City as members of the military were introduced to the crowd.
In video that appeared on YouTube on Friday, NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell took to the stage at Union Station to announce that the start of the second day of the draft would begin after welcoming 31 players to the NFL from Thursday night&#8217;s first round.
&#8220;Let&#8217;s go Kansas City,&#8221; Goodell said to the hundreds of thousands of fans gathered at Union Station who could be heard yelling and hollering. &#8220;Well, looking out here tonight, thank you Kansas City for your passion. Thank you for being here.&#8221;
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&#8220;And welcome back to night two of the 2023 NFL Draft,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Last night, in front of 125,000 people here in Kansas City and 34 million viewers, we welcomed 31 extraordinary players into the NFL family.&#8221;
&#8220;Tonight, as you can see, I&#8217;m joined by some current players and legends who will help us select the next generation of players that&#8217;s joining the NFL,&#8221; Goodell continued. &#8220;Also on stage are active duty service members from the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard, and Marine Corp.&#8221;
As the commissioner continued to introduce the military members, the crowd cheered loudly and clapped before they started chanting &#8220;USA! USA! USA!&#8221;
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Several members of the military were also seen cheering and chanting along, &#8220;USA!&#8221;
Wide shots of the crowd around Union Station and closeups of those next to the stage showed one person after another continuing the chant of &#8220;USA!&#8221; as it got louder and louder.
The second round then kicked off with the Pittsburgh Steelers on the clock first with their first pick going to Joey Porter Jr., CB (Penn State), the son of one of their legendary players, Joey Porter. It was followed by Will Levis QB (Kentucky), who went to the Tennessee Titans, who surprisingly remained on the board at the end of round 1.

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Officials affiliated with the Supreme Court are reportedly intensifying their investigation into the leak of the draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade, allegedly causing law clerks working for SCOTUS justices to consider obtaining legal counsel.
New steps taken by the Court reportedly include obtaining law clerks’ cell phone records and signed affidavits, according to sources providing information to <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/31/politics/supreme-court-roe-v-wade-leak-phone-records/index.html">CNN</a>.
“Chief Justice John Roberts met with law clerks as a group after the breach,” CNN reported, “but it is not known whether any systematic individual interviews have occurred.”
“I think an attorney, in the course of representation, could decide to speak to the press to promote his client&#8217;s interests,” Josh Blackman pointed out at <a href="https://reason.com/volokh/2022/05/31/cnn-scotus-investigation-demands-phone-records-from-clerks-who-must-sign-affidavits/">Reason</a>. “But there is an open question: does the attorney-client privilege survive in light of a duty of confidentiality to the Court? That is, could a clerk tell her attorney about some internal information in order to prepare a legal strategy? Could the Chief fire a clerk who confides in this lawyer?”
The investigation is headed by the Supreme Court marshal, Colonel Gail Curley, who is “in some ways constrained in her investigation by her position, which was created just after the Civil War, in 1867,” <a href="https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-leak-investigation-gail-curley-48623ac2a3bafe36f39bbf5f68257dbf">AP</a> noted.
“Experts say leaking the draft opinion likely wasn’t a crime, and Curley’s investigative tools are limited,” AP continued. “She could theoretically hire an outside law firm to assist, and in other judicial records cases the FBI has been called in. But it isn’t clear if she or others have the power to issue subpoenas to get material from journalists or the fewer than 100 people in the court — including justices — with access to a draft opinion.”
After the leak of the draft opinion on May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/03/chief-justice-roberts-draft-abortion-opinion-00029593">harshly criticized</a> the leak, calling it “a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here,” adding that he had “directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”
In the draft opinion, Justice Samuel Alito wrote bluntly:
<blockquote>We hold that Roe and Casey (Planned Parenthood v. Casey) must be overruled. The Constitution makes no reference to abortion, and no such right is implicitly protected by any constitutional provision, including the one on which the defenders of Roe and Casey chiefly rely — the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. &#8230; It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.</blockquote>

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The Supreme Court will be releasing &#8220;one or more&#8221; opinions on Monday amid tensions over a leaked draft opinion indicating that justices may have decided to overturn Roe v. Wade.
The justices met privately on Thursday for the first time since the leaked draft opinion shook the nation, <a href="https://apnews.com/article/abortion-us-supreme-court-amy-coney-barrett-john-roberts-299fafc4818a63b34bcfaba75f54df4a">according to the Associated Press</a>.
Though the justices did not give any indication about what they discussed in the private conference, the publication reported, they did reveal that on Monday, at least one decision will be announced. SCOTUSblog also noted that &#8220;one or more&#8221; decisions would be released on Monday.
There are 37 unresolved cases that have been argued in the fall, winter, and spring, according to the AP, noting that the justices usually have issued all their decisions by the beginning of the summer.
During a question and answer session Thursday night with George Mason University&#8217;s law students at the Antonin Scalia Law School, Justice Samuel Alito avoided addressing the court&#8217;s mood.
“The court right now, we had our conference this morning, we’re doing our work,” Alito said, <a class="" href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/12/samuel-alito-roe-wade-leak/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Washington Post reported</a>. “We’re taking new cases; we’re headed toward the end of the term, which is always a frenetic time as we get our opinions out.”
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NEW: Next Monday will be a Supreme Court opinion day. Starting at 10 a.m. EDT, the court expects to issue one or more decisions in argued cases from the current term.
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POLITICO <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">broke the news</a> May 2 that the Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark decision, reporting that Justice Samuel Alito had written an opinion draft that is an “unflinching repudiation” of Roe v. Wade.
The draft majority opinion, which is not final, says Roe v. Wade was egregiously wrong.
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,” Justice Samuel Alito wrote. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Following the leak of the draft opinion last Monday, conservative activists and legal experts <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservatives-legal-experts-call-for-justices-to-release-roe-v-wade-decision">quickly called</a> for the Supreme Court to release its decision on Dobbs vs. Jackson Women’s Health Organization.
“Obviously no one can actually force the Chief Justice’s hand,” Judicial Crisis Network&#8217;s Carrie Severino told The Daily Wire last week, “but he may want to release the opinion early to avoid exposing the Court to further pressure and intimidation tactics that risk undermining the Court as an institution as a result of the draft opinion hanging out there for what could be months.”
The unprecedented leak has sent shockwaves throughout Washington, with many commentators noting that a draft decision has never been publicly released in the modern history of the court.
On May 3, Chief Justice John Roberts <a href="https://www.axios.com/justice-roberts-abortion-leak-da48f1b2-087f-4a43-b037-068be226ce2c.html?stream=top&amp;utm_source=alert&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=alerts_all">released</a> a statement confirming that the draft document is real, but emphasizing that it did not represent the Supreme Court’s final decision.
“We at the Court are blessed to have a workforce — permanent employees and law clerks alike — intensely loyal to the institution and dedicated to the rule of law,” the chief justice said.
“This was a singular and egregious breach of that trust that is an affront to the Court and the community of public servants who work here,” he added, noting that he has “directed the Marshal of the Court to launch an investigation into the source of the leak.”

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot ratcheted up the hysteria among the Left triggered by the Supreme Court draft of an opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade with an overheated tweet claiming SCOTUS would target the LGBT community.
Lightfoot, a lesbian, <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/lori-lightfoot-claims-racism-and-sexism-driving-about-99-of-criticism-over-chicago-crime-wave/">claimed</a> in late June 2021 that “about 99%” of the criticism she&#8217;s gotten over the skyrocketing crime rate was fomented by racism and sexism.
On Monday night, Lightfoot called for a “call to arms” over the Supreme Court draft, tweeting, “To my friends in the LGBTQ+ community—the Supreme Court is coming for us next. This moment has to be a call to arms.”
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She immediately followed by adding, “We will not surrender our rights without a fight—a fight to victory!”
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Two hours prior to those tweets, Lightfoot cried, “We will fight like hell to protect reproductive freedom for women here and across the country!”
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Proud to stand side-by-side with fearless women leaders of Chicago. We will fight like hell to protect reproductive freedom for women here and across the country! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/JusticeForAllPledge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#JusticeForAllPledge</a> <a href="https://t.co/65caG4d4HK">pic.twitter.com/65caG4d4HK</a>
&mdash; Lori Lightfoot (@LoriLightfoot) <a href="https://twitter.com/LoriLightfoot/status/1523812692175331330?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 9, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In April 2021, Lightfoot <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/chicago-mayor-lori-lightfoot-blasts-rumors-shes-resigning-as-homophobic-racist-misogynistic/">called</a> rumors that she might resign from office &#8220;homophobic,&#8221; &#8220;racist,&#8221; and &#8220;misogynistic.&#8221; Ja’Mal Green, “an activist and former mayoral candidate who continues to call for her resignation,” according to the Chicago Sun-Times, stated on social media “Lori Lightfoot is resigning tomorrow in a stunning end to her mayorship.”
Lightfoot tweeted, “Good morning from my mansion in Sauganash. Seriously, though—our city doesn’t have any time for homophobic, racist, and misogynistic rumors, today or any day. &#8230; It’s shocking and disappointing to see some media members and verified Twitter handles are peddling this trash as truth.”
The next month, former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) condemned the “blatant anti-white racism” Lightfoot exhibited by allowing only journalists of color to interview her. Gabbard tweeted, “Mayor Lightfoot&#8217;s blatant anti-white racism is abhorrent. I call upon President Biden, Kamala Harris, and other leaders of our county—of all races—to join me in calling for Mayor Lightfoot&#8217;s resignation. Our leaders must condemn all racism, including anti-white.”
Lightfoot had written in a letter, “By now, you may have heard the news that on the occasion of the two-year anniversary of my inauguration as Mayor of this great City, I will be exclusively providing one-on-one interviews with journalists of color. As a person of color, I have throughout my adult life done everything that I can to fight for diversity and inclusion in every institution that I have been a part of and being Mayor makes me uniquely situated to shine a spotlight on this most important issue.”
“I have been struck since my first day on the campaign trail back in 2018 by the overwhelming whiteness and maleness of Chicago media outlets, editorial boards, the political press corps, and yes, the City Hall press corps specifically,” she added.

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Former Vice-President Mike Pence fired back at Vice-President Kamala Harris on Thursday night after Harris had sneered at Republicans who support the Supreme Court draft opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade.
Harris snapped at the Republicans on Tuesday  night, “&#8217;Those Republican leaders who are trying to weaponize the use of the law against women, well, we say ‘How dare they? How dare they tell a woman what she can do and cannot do with her own body? How dare they?&#8217;”
After noting that Harris “scolded the five justices on the Supreme Court listed in that draft opinion and Republican legislators in states across the country,” Pence fired back, “I say with the lives of 62 million unborn boys and girls ended in abortion since 1973, generations of mothers enduring heartbreak and loss that can last a lifetime: Madame Vice President, how dare you?”
“Make no mistake about it: Democrats and the radical Left will never stop pushing for more and extreme abortion-related policies as long as Roe is the law of the land,” Pence  continued in his speech at South Carolina&#8217;s Carolina Pregnancy Center. “Democrat-run cities across America are now providing financial incentives for abortion, implementing paid leave. In Boston, for example, government employees can receive 12 weeks of paid leave for abortion, the same benefit for having a baby.”
Then he turned to President Biden and his administration. “And we’ve heard their radical agenda: In his State of the Union address President Joe Biden recently pledged himself to defend the ‘God-given right’ of men to compete in women’s sports. And their latest appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States couldn’t even define what a woman was. Now they want to lecture us about protecting women.”
“The American people are not confused about human biology and we are not confused about right and wrong,” he said bluntly.
“In days gone by, liberals viewed abortion —remember — as a necessary evil,” he recalled. “Remember ‘safe and legal and rare?’ Those days are over. The truth is, today most on the Left believe abortion is a moral good to be celebrated and encouraged.”
“But we are here to declare on this momentous week, with one voice, Roe must go,” he declared. “And we will never stop working until every child, born and unborn, is protected in the law as a precious gift from God.
“Governors, state legislators at every level, if this Supreme Court draft opinion holds, will now have a say over the issue of life in their individual states,” Pence pointed out. “And I have a sense, as the nation is moving more and more in the direction of recognizing the sanctity of life, that they will be looking for women and men who are willing to stand up unapologetically for the cause of life this year and in the years to come.”

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Mike Pence Slams Kamala Harris After She Ripped GOP For Supporting SCOTUS Draft Overturning Roe

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Chief Justice John Roberts will likely order a full FBI investigation into the leaked Supreme Court draft, according to a new report from CBS. 
The news comes hours after an unprecedented leak of a draft majority opinion that showed the Court could be set to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling. 
“Chief Justice Roberts is likely to order a full investigation involving the FBI into the reported leak of a draft majority opinion, reports<a href="https://twitter.com/JanCBS"> @JanCBS</a> — as some question if it will throw the Supreme Court’s legitimacy into question,” CBS Mornings tweeted early Monday. 
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Chief Justice Roberts is likely to order a full investigation involving the FBI into the reported leak of a draft majority opinion, reports <a href="https://twitter.com/JanCBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JanCBS</a> — as some question if it will throw the Supreme Court’s legitimacy into question. <a href="https://t.co/rJsIlQqjEU">pic.twitter.com/rJsIlQqjEU</a>
&mdash; CBS Mornings (@CBSMornings) <a href="https://twitter.com/CBSMornings/status/1521463934624092160?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 3, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Monday evening, Politico released the leaked SCOTUS draft to the public, but it remains unclear who inside the Court leaked it.
Initial reports suggest Roberts did not sign on with majority opinion as the other five conservative justices allegedly <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2022/05/02/supreme-court-abortion-draft-opinion-00029473">held</a> that &#8220;Roe was egregiously wrong from the start.&#8221;
“We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled,&#8221; Alito writes in the draft of the majority opinion. “It is time to heed the Constitution and return the issue of abortion to the people’s elected representatives.”
Politico reported, &#8220;The three Democratic-appointed justices – Stephen Breyer, Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan – are working on one or more dissents, according to the person. How Chief Justice John Roberts will ultimately vote, and whether he will join an already written opinion or draft his own, is unclear.&#8221;
On Monday night, the leaked draft had already created anger and celebration as tensions rose outside of the Supreme Court after the Politico released the document. A crowd of abortion supporters and pro-life advocates gathered outside the Court to protest the draft of the pending decision, The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/tension-builds-outside-supreme-court-after-leak-shows-roe-may-be-overturned">reported</a>.
Court experts told The Daily Wire that the leak could be a political move. “The leak appears to be totally political in nature, not only intended to damage the Court and pressure the justices, but more immediately to incite Democrats to push their laundry list of terrible anti-life ideas, including blowing up the filibuster and attempting to codify abortion violence at the federal level prior to the November elections,” said Katie Glenn, Government Affairs Counsel at Americans United for Life (AUL).
Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, told The Daily Wire “That type of leak is an outrageous betrayal of trust.&#8221; She added, &#8220;The Supreme Court is the only institution in town that doesn’t leak, and to do this is a real attack on the institution of the court. Not to mention just an outrageous breach of trust to the justices to do so.&#8221;

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After opposition led by Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO), the House and Senate Armed Services Committees have dropped a provision from the final version of the 2022 National Defense Authorization Act that would have required American women over the age of 18 to register for the military draft.
Politico first <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/12/06/ndaa-women-draft-dropped-523829">reported</a> the story based on &#8220;two people with knowledge of the negotiations.&#8221; The D.C.-based media outlet categorizes the decision as a win for conservatives and a loss for progressives:
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As recently as 6:02 pm ET Monday evening, Hawley expressed his opposition to any defense bill that would include both sexes registering for the selective service.
The populist Republican tweeted, &#8220;If the massive expansion of the draft to include women is not removed, I will continue to insist on a vote on the Senate floor to strike the provision.&#8221;
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If the massive expansion of the draft to include women is not removed, I will continue to insist on a vote on the Senate floor to strike the provision <a href="https://t.co/XrWmvF6Ebj">https://t.co/XrWmvF6Ebj</a>
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) <a href="https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1467992800646029320?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 6, 2021</a></blockquote>
While the initial provision had support from both parties in Congress, conservative activists strongly opposed the idea since its inception.
The Daily Wire&#8217;s Michael Knowles tweeted, &#8220;A nation that drafts its women to die in combat deserves defeat.&#8221;
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A nation that drafts its women to die in combat deserves defeat.
— Michael Knowles (@michaeljknowles) <a href="https://twitter.com/michaeljknowles/status/1465372767214350346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2021</a></blockquote>
Politico added that other Republicans who also opposed the equal opportunity draft celebrated the proposal being dropped from the defense spending bill:
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Rep. Vicky Hartzler (R-Mo.), a social conservative who opposes requiring women to register, celebrated its removal from the bill. She criticized the move as &#8220;imposing a woke ideology on our troops rather than meeting the current needs of our military.&#8221;
&#8220;Women are not chess pieces in a political game. They are doctors, lawyers, engineers and already valuable members of our all-volunteer force,&#8221; Hartzler said. &#8220;I applaud the removal of this unnecessary provision and am grateful to see reasonable minds come together to join me in resisting this effort.&#8221;
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The final version of the 2022 NDAA is expected to be voted on sometime this week.
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Josh Hawley

U.S. Military

On Wednesday, the Senate advanced the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), part of which would mandate the military draft for women, moving the legislation to the floor debate stage by a vote of 84-15. 
Debate on the bill might begin on Thursday, and amendments to remove the provision on drafting women for the military might still be made. One of the initial setbacks for bringing the bill to the floor included disagreements between Republicans and Democrats about a provision relating to China that was eventually decided to be determined apart from the NDAA.
The Hill <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/582086-senate-advances-defense-bill-after-delay?rl=1">reported</a>, “The agreement to enter formal negotiations on the China bill also freed up the defense bill. Leadership now needs to work through hundreds of amendments to figure out which potential amendments can get a vote.”
Several of the senators who voted against bringing the bill to the floor <a href="https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=117&amp;session=1&amp;vote=00472#position">were</a> Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Josh Hawley (R-MO), and Rand Paul (R-KY). Some Democrats also voted not to bring the bill to debate, including Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Cory Booker (D-NJ).
The provision that would mandate a draft for women was <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/11/15/congress-might-require-women-register-draft-where-do-republicans-democrats-stand/">first</a> put into the NDAA by the House in September. The draft has not been used in decades, though men 18-26 still need to register in case it were activated again. 
While many Democrats and some Republicans <a href="https://www.axios.com/mandatory-draft-registration-women-74f20132-e733-4c90-9c21-07dca512fba0.html">including</a> Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) in the senate support requiring women to register for the Selective Service, a number of Republicans are extremely opposed to the idea. 
“It is wrong to force our daughters, mothers, wives, and sisters to fight our wars,” Hawley <a href="https://www.hawley.senate.gov/senator-hawley-leads-effort-remove-ndaa-provision-forcing-women-enter-draft">said</a> earlier this month. “Our country is extremely grateful for the brave women who have volunteered to serve our country with and alongside our fighting forces.” 
He continued: “They have played a vital role in defending America at every point in our nation’s history. But volunteering for military service is not the same as being forced into it, and no woman should be compelled to do so.”
Some of Hawley’s Republican colleagues like Joni Ernst (R-IA) said that since women are now allowed in combat that women should “serve to the best of our capacity” in the military.
Democrat Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) also favored making women eligible for the draft. Some argue, however, that military service for women should be voluntary not compulsory. 
“God bless that woman if she wants to go serve in the military and is prepared to fight,” Texas Senator Ted Cruz said, &#8220;But I&#8217;m the father of two daughters. The idea that the government would forcibly draft them, and put them in a place where they would be engaged in combat against a man who the statistics demonstrate is likely to have significantly more body mass and significantly more body strength? That&#8217;s not fair.&#8221;
Despite the efforts of those like Hawley and Cruz, the provision mandating women to register for the draft seems almost sure to pass with the NDAA <a href="https://www.defenseone.com/policy/2021/11/plan-draft-women-uniting-unlikely-political-allies/186667/">according</a> to Defense One. 
“Attaching it to NDAA basically ensures that it will [pass], barring a massive herculean effort to get it unattached somehow,” said Kara Vuic of Texas Christian University. “I think it’s going to pass.”

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On Thursday, the House of Representatives passed a $768 billion defense bill, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), that included a requirement for women to register for the military draft if the draft were reinstated. 181 Democrats and 135 Republicans voted for the bill.
On Wednesday, Republican members of the House Freedom Caucus had held a press conference denouncing the idea that women would be required to register for the Selective Service System.
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) noted, “Everybody here on this stage … we support our men and women in uniform. … I represent about 80,000 veterans; I stand alongside our men and women in uniform. Whatever the pay raises, whatever the material supplies that they need in order to carry out their jobs, but what I do not support is blindly supporting legislation that is critically flawed at its core because of, oh, we’re in the minority. Look, right now, today, if you vote for the NDAA, you are voting to draft our daughters. There is no other position you can take. The current law of the land does not have a requirement that our daughters be drafted, okay? If this NDAA is passed and signed into law, then our daughters will be required to sign up for Selective Service and make themselves available for the draft.”
“Under no circumstances should a civilized country, the United States of America, with the ability to have a volunteer force with the size and the caliber and the strength we have say that we’re going to force women into being drafted into the United States military,” Roy blasted. “I cannot put into words the extent to which that idea angers me and undermines who we are as a nation and I cannot believe that House Republicans are sweeping it aside, sweeping it under the rug, refusing to talk about it while they blindly march forward saying the ‘conference’ supports passage of the NDAA. I’m proud that the Freedom Caucus has taken a position against voting for the NDAA; I would implore my colleagues, my Republican colleagues to join us in opposing the NDAA.”
Then Roy pointed out that he did not trust the Biden administration not to draft girls:
<blockquote>And not just for this reason; I’m focusing on that issue in particular, but also because we’re giving more money than they requested to a Department of Defense that abandoned our men and women in uniform in Afghanistan, abandoned SIVs, turned over Bagram … the incompetence of this administration. And then they want me to trust them that they won’t draft my daughter? My ten-year-old daughter? I assure you: not on my watch am I going to agree that we should make it where this government can draft my ten-year-old daughter, and that I’m supposed to trust them after the debacle that just unfolded in Afghanistan. Trust them? When the government is telling my people and my state they can’t get monoclonal antibodies? Telling them they must get vaccinated in businesses over 100, an unconstitutional and unlawful order by a president out of control and abusing power of office while I watch my borders wide open and Texans getting absolutely decimated, ranchers getting overrun and people dying from fentanyl while millions more cross our border … The NDAA is supposed to be about defending the United States of America, not engaging in social engineering experiments, destroying the Department of Defense and saying that we have to draft my ten-year-old daughter.  </blockquote>
Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) added, “As usual, with the Swamp, the biggest scandal in the bill is the quietest one that they are trying to sneak in and hope no one notices. This defense authorization, for the first time in our history, would require teenage girls to register for the draft. No one knows about this because the Democrats have convinced the media that gender no longer exists so this isn’t a big deal. But I want to make sure the American people know, the Democrats and, sadly, some Republicans want to draft your daughters. This is wrong, and it&#8217;s immoral, but they are doing it anyway. We are definitely proud of the courageous women who have served and are serving in our military and defending our nation, but our mothers, sisters, wives and daughters should not be part of this draft. This is left-wing, woke agenda gone too far. … The vote is tomorrow, and the swamp wants to pass the bill.”
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Members Of The House Freedom Caucus Speak On The Defense Authorization Bill

House Passes Bill To Force Girls To Register For The Draft. Conservative Republicans Blast: ‘Left-Wing, Woke Agenda Gone Too Far’

U.S. House of Representatives

Women

After the House Armed Services Committee voted on Wednesday to require women to register for the military draft, Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who has a young daughter of his own, blasted the Democrats and Republicans who voted for the amendment, issuing a long Twitter thread and concluding, “All of DC — all of it — can go straight to hell.”
“During late night deliberations on the committee&#8217;s annual defense policy bill, lawmakers voted 35-24 to adopt an amendment from Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D-Pa.) to expand registration for the Selective Service System beyond men,” <a href="https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/01/women-register-military-draft-house-panel-508781">Politico</a> reported on Wednesday, adding, “ If the provision remains in the defense bill and passes on the House floor, the change has a high chance of becoming law. The Senate Armed Services Committee adopted a similar provision in its defense bill, which awaits a floor vote.”
After taking his daughter to the White House Christmas party in 2019, Roy delightedly tweeted: “My daughter was my date to the White House last night. It was a great night. God bless America and Merry Christmas!”
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My daughter was my date to the White House last night. It was a great night. God bless America and Merry Christmas! <a href="https://t.co/c6aQYkaIKF">pic.twitter.com/c6aQYkaIKF</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1205538278184833025?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">December 13, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Roy’s blistering thread vis-à-vis the amendment to force women to register for the military draft began, “Message to Republicans &amp; Democrats — including <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP">@HouseGOP</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateGOP">@SenateGOP</a> colleagues. I do not trust you to do anything at all, much less say you will draft my daughter to ‘non combat’ roles. Why don’t I trust you? Let’s see —”
Roy then delivered a laundry list of actions politicians on both sides of the aisle had taken that engendered his distrust of their claim women would be restricted to “non-combat roles” as he made the following claims:
<blockquote>Maybe it’s because you (both R&amp;D) have amassed $30 trillion in debt and are blowing through trillions more… all while giving lip service to “balanced budgets” for decades…
Maybe it’s because you (both R &amp; D) have talked about securing our border while Texans suffer &#8211; our ranches, our schools, our hospitals &#8211; Fentanyl pouring into our communities… murders, rapes… dead migrants on ranches… all in the false name of compassion…
Maybe it’s because you (both R&amp;D) politicized a virus… giving us wildly varying propaganda about it’s origins, the nature of it’s communicability, the efficacy of your mandated measures in response including vaccines, and ignoring of treatments…
Maybe it’s because you (both R&amp;D) have destroyed our healthcare system and made it impossible to get the doctor of our choice at a remotely affordable price all in the false name of “coverage.”
Maybe it’s because both R&amp;D have had us at war for 20 years… without any actual new AUMF or consistent guidance from our political leaders about victory… all while our troops sacrificed, and we set the stage for a gutless President to surrender and empower our enemies…
Maybe its because you’ve funded education bureaucrat after education bureaucrat to teach our kids that American is evil and racist, to take God out of our schools, and otherwise make it impossible for parents to safely turn their children over to the schools…
Maybe it’s because you’ve (both R&amp;D) caused America, despite sitting on a vast reserve of energy supply, to render us less secure economically and less secure against our enemies to appease institutional investors and the Acela corridor cocktail circuit.</blockquote>
He concluded, “Now you — including likely 28 GOP House members voting for an NDAA last night to do so &#8211; want to draft my daughter and just ‘trust you’ not to put them into combat? All of DC — all of it — can go straight to hell.”
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Message to Republicans &amp; Democrats &#8211; including <a href="https://twitter.com/HouseGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@HouseGOP</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/SenateGOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenateGOP</a> colleagues. I do not trust you to do anything at all, much less say you will draft my daughter to “non combat” roles. Why don’t I trust you? Let’s see &#8211; THREAD: (1/9) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DontDraftOurDaughters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DontDraftOurDaughters</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1433495796696207360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Maybe it’s because you (both R &amp; D) have talked about securing our border while Texans suffer &#8211; our ranches, our schools, our hospitals &#8211; Fentanyl pouring into our communities… murders, rapes… dead migrants on ranches… all in the false name of compassion… (3/9)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1433495799476928515?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Maybe it’s because you (both R&amp;D) have destroyed our healthcare system and made it impossible to get the doctor of our choice at a remotely affordable price all in the false name of “coverage.” (5/9)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1433495802463334403?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Maybe its because you’ve funded education bureaucrat after education bureaucrat to teach our kids that American is evil and racist, to take God out of our schools, and otherwise make it impossible for parents to safely turn their children over to the schools… (7/9)
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1433495805575454729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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Now you &#8211; including likely 28 GOP House members voting for an NDAA last night to do so &#8211; want to draft my daughter and just “trust you” not to put them into combat? All of DC &#8211; all of it &#8211; can go straight to hell. (9/9) <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DontDraftOurDaughters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DontDraftOurDaughters</a>
&mdash; Chip Roy (@chiproytx) <a href="https://twitter.com/chiproytx/status/1433495811342618628?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 2, 2021</a></blockquote>
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