Following approval by the House and Senate of different versions of an annual military policy bill, the future of the Selective Service System (SSS) will be decided behind closed doors by a House-Senate conference committee – for the sixth time in the last ten...
House Rules Committee Blocks Vote on Ending Selective Service
The House of Representatives won’t get to vote on the latest proposal to finally end Selective Service. Early Tuesday morning, after overnight behind-the-scenes discussions, the House Rules Committee voted to propose a rule for House floor consideration of this year’s...
House Considers Whether To End or Try To ‘Automate’ Draft Registration
The U.S. House of Representatives is considering rival proposals either to end mandatory registration for a possible military draft or to grant sweeping and unprecedented authority to the Selective Service System (SSS) to collect and aggregate personal information...
DOGE Gets Access to Selective Service Registration Database
The Selective Service System has confirmed that, as of this week, personnel from the so-called Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) have arrived at the SSS and have been given access to the SSS database of men registered for a possible military draft. Today an...
Heritage Foundation Project Wants To Weaponize Selective Service Registration Against Immigrants
According to an exclusive report by Fox News, the Oversight Project of the Heritage Foundation is filing Freedom Of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Selective Service System and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for records of how many “illegal...
Proposal for ‘Automatic’ Draft Registration Removed From NDAA
An ill-considered and unworkable proposal by the Selective Service System to try to "automatically" register all men ages 18-26 for a possible future military draft has been removed from the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025. The proposal...
Selective Service Repeal Act Reintroduced in the Senate
In the face of moves in Congress to ramp up U.S. readiness to activate a draft, Senators Ron Wyden (D-OR), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY) have reintroduced an alternative proposal to step back from the brink of mass military mobilization by repealing the...
Senate Joins House in Proposal for ‘Automatic’ Draft Registration
A Contrary to earlier reports, the U.S. Senate has joined the House of Representatives in moving toward a foolhardy attempt to ‘automatically’ register all draft-eligible U.S. citizens and residents for a possible military draft, by extracting and aggregating...
Draft Bills Dead in California But Still Alive in Congress
A proposal to automatically register applicants for California driver’s licenses with the Selective Service System for a possible military draft was pulled by its author, Sen. Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera), just before a scheduled hearing today in the state Assembly...
Rep. Houlahan Fails To Justify Move Toward a Draft
“I have an amendment at the desk.” Rep. Chrissy Houlahan introduces a proposal from the Selective Service System to automate draft registration in the House Armed Services Commiteee, May 22, 2024. Under fire for proposing an ill-considered amendment to this year’s...


