Slavery Bill H.R. 5741

[b322da]

I would suspect that the institution of a fairly administered draft today would expedite our getting out of Iraq and Afghanistan.

Elmo

[hirundo82]

This bill is DOA. There are no cosponsors and the only sponsor is likely to be convicted on multiple ethics violations and throwns out of the House this fall.

[sjfcontrol]

This bill is DOA. There are no cosponsors and the only sponsor is likely to be convicted on multiple ethics violations and throwns out of the House this fall.

Yeah right. More likely they'll vote him "Ethics violator of the year" and throw him a parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. You really think a bunch of ethics violators are going to convict one of their own?

[Dragonfighter]

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Read the bill. We aren't talking about "raising an army" and the draft. The option is for the President to define the service, define which people serve, whether to extend there conscription and to define fitness standards. The president declares when this goes into effect (Time of war is default). It is an expansion of draft authority in terms that are so broad, one could be inducted to do anything that the president wants them to do.