287 Politicians and Media Figures Who Want to Reinstate the Draft or Require Women to Register

Nineteen prominent figures in politics and media who support

reinstating the draft or changing draft requirements:

Authored Bills to Reinstate the Draft, and Voted No on H.R. 5485

(a failed bill which could have required women to register for the Selective Service)
Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY)


Favor Both Reinstating the Draft and Requiring Women to Register
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ)
Young Turks Reporter Cenk Uygur
Young Turks Reporter Ana Kasparian
Young Turks Reporter John Iadarola

Favor Mandatory Civil Emergency Preparedness Service
President Barack Obama (D-IL)
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel (D-IL)
Economist Robert Reich
Writer David Brooks
Reporter Carl Bernstein
Democratic policy adviser Bruce Reed
Reporter Chuck Todd
Reporter Jon Stewart
Reporter Thom Hartmann


Favor Requiring Women to Register for the Draft
Fmr. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (D-NY)
Fmr. Gov. Jeb Bush (R-FL)
Gov. Chris Christie (R-NJ)
Army Chief of Staff Mark A. Milley
Marine Corps Commandant, General Robert B. Neller

185 Congressmen Who Voted Nay on a Failed Bill
That Could Have Required Women to Register for the Draft

     114^th House of Representatives Members Who Voted Nay on H.R. 5485
     Section 1214 of H.R. 5485 “Prohibits funds provided by this bill from being used to change Selective Service System registration requirements in contravention of the Military Selective Service Act.”

     A “Nay” vote indicates that the voting member is open to funds provided by H.R. 5485 being used to change registration requirements so as to require women to register for the Selective Service. A "Yea" vote indicates that the member supports the bill, and supports its prohibition on funds being used to require women to register for the draft.

     The bill was not passed and did not become law.
     Without taking into consideration the other provisions of the bill, the fact that Section 1214 did not become codified into law is a good thing, because it could have potentially appropriated funds towards the revision of draft requirements, likely including a requirement for women to register.

     Read the bill at http://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/5485

     Author's Note:
     The author of the Aquarian Agrarian blog, Joseph W. Kopsick, wishes to apologize for the incorrect list of U.S. Representatives who voted for this bill. I do not know how that happened. There were 37 roll call votes on different sections of the bill, and Section 1214 was never voted on directly, so I must have substituted the list from one of the other votes. I have found the "Yea" and "Nay" voting on Roll Call 398 on the bill, which was the final vote taken on H.R. 5485, and replaced the original list with the 185 "Nay"s from Roll Call 398.
     Readers can verify for themselves, at the following link, that the list of congressmen below constituted the final "Nay" vote on H.R. 5485. Read the final votes on the bill at http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll398.xml.
     I would also like to note that both the previous list, and this list correcting it, contained Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawaii, and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate.

Adams
Aguilar
Amash
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brooks (AL)
Brownley (CA)
Buck
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro

DelBene
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Graham
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Gutiérrez
Hahn
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Honda
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Lee
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton

Murphy (FL)
Napolitano
Neal
Nolan
Norcross
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Peters
Pingree
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Rice (NY)
Richmond
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth

The list of 203 political and media figures who have supported the draft ends here.
(I say 203, and not 204, because I want to avoid counting Charlie Rangel twice.)

     Below are 83 senators who voted for a bill that previously provided for requiring women to register for the draft, but which was amended before the final draft, so as to no longer include that provision. Many of them – probably, most of them Democrats – might well be considered “more likely than not” to support future efforts to require women to register for the draft in the Senate.

     114^th U.S. Senate Members Who Voted Yes on S. 2943 (the 2017 N.D.A.A. / National Defense Authorization Act)

     This bill would have required women to register for the Selective Service, but on November 29^th, 2018, that provision was reportedly removed from the bill by conservative legislators. Read about that here: http://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2016/11/29/congress-drops-plans-to-make-women-register-for-the-draft/

     This bill was passed, and became law on December 23^rd, 2016.

     Read the bill at http://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/senate-bill/2943/text

     Author's Note:
     I have not looked for the section of S. 2943 which would have required women to register for the draft, but I have found Section 555, "Principles and Procedure for Commission Recommendations" of Senate Bill 2943.
     In that bill, which became public law, provides that "the principles required under this subsection shall address the following:"... This can be found in the bill under Section 555, sub-section C, clause 2, article A.
     That article continues, "Whether, in light of the current and predicted global security environment and the changing nature of warfare, there continues to be a continuous or potential need for a military selective service process designed to produce large numbers of combat members of the Armed Forces, and if so, whether such a system should include mandatory registration by all citizens and residents, regardless of sex."
     So even though Senate Bill 2943 did not end up requiring women to register for the draft, it did provide for the establishment of a principle to consider whether we should have mandatory Selective Service registration without regards to sex.
     Therefore, it would not be inappropriate to conclude, from the list of "Yea" votes below, that the senators who voted in favor of this bill more than likely support requiring women to register for the draft in addition to men.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL)
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)
Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK)
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-AZ)
Sen. John Boozman (R-AR)
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR)
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA)
Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO)
Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO)
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT)
Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT)
Sen. Thomas Carper (D-DE)
Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE)
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)
Sen. John Isakson (R-GA)
Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-HI)
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI)
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL)
Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL)
Sen. Daniel Coats (R-IN)
Sen. Joe Donnelly (D-IN)
Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA)
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
Sen. Jerry Moran (R-KS)
Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS)
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA)
Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)
Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME)
Sen. Angus King (I-ME)
Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD)
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)
Sen. Gary Peters (D-MI)
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN)
Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN)
Sen. Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Sen. Roger Wicker (R-MS)
Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO)
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO)
Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT)
Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT)
Sen. Deb Fischer (R-ME)
Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV)
Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH)
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH)
Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ)
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ)
Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM)
Sen. Tom Udall (D-NM)
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)
Sen. Richard Burr (R-NC)
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC)
Sen. Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND)
Sen. John Hoeven (R-ND)
Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH)
Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Sen. James Lankford (R-OK)
Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA)
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA)
Sen. John Reed (D-RI)
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC)
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD)
Sen. John Thune (R-SD)
Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN)
Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX)
Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA)
Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA)
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA)
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Shelley Capito (R-WV)
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV)
Sen. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI)
Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)
Sen. Michael Enzi (R-WY)

That makes 287 total figures in politics and media whom I have observed
supporting the draft in some way, over the last five years.

To watch my YouTube video about the military draft, click on the following link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4WWnNo2QaI

Compiled on October 4th, 2016

Edited on October 5^th and November 1st, 2016

Links and Explanations Added on December 29th, 2018

Author's Notes Added on February 15th, 2019