“While this certainly isn’t a perfect bill, I believe we were able to accomplish many goals in this year’s NDAA important to Georgia, Georgia’s Eighth District, and the nation,” Scott, a Tifton Republican, said in a statement after a committee vote on the legislation. Georgia’s delegation has also asked for assurances that any projects phased out at bases in the state would be replaced with new projects that supplement lost funding.

Some of the bill’s money would also be earmarked for the state’s historically Black colleges and universities. Jon Ossoff, worked to include a $100 million barracks project at Fort Stewart. In Georgia, the bill includes $300 million for new construction projects and funding for various cybersecurity programs, including an instruction facility at Fort Gordon. There is also money to support initiatives in Iraq and Syria. The bill that the House passed includes a 2.7% pay raise for troops, plus an overall increase in the defense budget of $23.9 billion. Austin Scott, who serves on the House Armed Services Committee, highlighted some of the bill’s provisions in a news release. Forty-five percent of Americans now favor the plan, compared with 63% four years ago. While the proposal has bipartisan backing in Congress, the pollster Ipsos reported this year that the public’s support for drafting women into the military has decreased in recent years. “Equity is important,” Houlahan told CQ Roll Call after the committee vote, “and women have constantly had to fight for a level playing field - and this change is a step in the right direction.” A congressional panel issued a report in March 2020 recommending the change. The language is also contained in the Senate version of the bill. The House Armed Services Committee voted 35-24 to enact the change, led by Democrats and a handful of Republicans on the panel. Chrissy Houlahan, a Democrat, and Florida U.S.

House in September, based on an amendment sponsored by Pennsylvania U.S. The change was added to the bill prior to its passage in the U.S. Still, the draft remains as a contingency plan. Instead, the recruitment of volunteer enlistees has rounded out the military. The draft was last used in 1973, during the Vietnam War, despite the country engaging in multiple wars and conflicts since then.

Proponents say it is a sign of gender equality and would broaden the number of available draftees if the United States ever needed to scale up its military.

The biggest policy shift in this year’s measure would require young women to join young men in registering for the military draft when they turn 18.

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