{"id":23232,"date":"2011-05-05T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=23232"},"modified":"2011-05-05T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2011-05-05T13:23:32","slug":"selective-service-resists-closure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23232","title":{"rendered":"Selective Service resists closure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. tried to shut down the $23 million Selective Service office but met stiff resistance in Congress, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/2011\/05\/military-move-to-end-draft-registration-derailed-050411\/\">Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coffman said he was surprised to learn that legislative jurisdiction over the Selective Service rests not with the Armed Services Committee, which would use draftees, but with the House Financial Services Committee. That panel, primarily responsible for writing tax laws and handling big federal entitlement programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, refused to waive jurisdiction, preventing Coffman from offering his amendment to kill the Selective Service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Coffman has the unique perspective of being one of the 175 reserve military officers who served in the agency;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Coffman, who was once one of those reserve officers on loan to the Selective Service, said he continues to believe the agency should be shut down, but it is going to take a little longer than he thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI still believe we are wasting money on the Selective Service, but shutting it down isn\u2019t going to be quick or easy,\u201d Coffman said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Since there is no one brave enough to reconstitute the draft,  since no one takes it seriously and register any more, and the all-volunteer military is a complete success, it&#8217;s the easiest way to save the taxpayers several million bucks. I don&#8217;t know why we cling to this boondoggle, other than as a jobs program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. Mike Coffman, R-Colo. tried to shut down the $23 million Selective Service office but met &hellip; <a title=\"Selective Service resists closure\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=23232\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Selective Service resists closure<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,84],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-military-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}