Breaking: Rangel to reintroduce notrious draft bill

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From People Against the Draft http://www.nodraft.info
Story posted: http://nyc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/138944/index.php

According to a report from People Against the Draft Rep. Rangel plans to reintroduce HR 163 - the draft bill that voted soundly defeated in the last session.

Rep. Charles Rangel intends to reintroduce legislation calling for resumption of the draft during the current Congressional term, according to a memo circulated by Bill Galvin of the Center on Conscience and War.

Rangel, it will be recalled, was the author of the notorious HR 163, the "universal" conscription bill that became a political football during the 2004 Presidential campaign. When charges that Bush would reinstate the draft emerged as a red-hot election issue last October, HR 163 became a liability for the Kerry campaign -- whereupon Rangel's bill was rushed to the floor and summarily voted down by a huge majority. For tactical reasons even the bill's sponsors, including Rangel, voted against it.

Please contact Rangel's office as soon as possible and let him know that we will not tolerate reintroduction of the draft:


Washington DC Office
2354 Rayburn House
Washington, DC 20515
[phone]

New York Office
163 W. 125th Street #737
New York, NY 10027
[phone]

http://rangel.house.gov/contact.shtml

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