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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 12:22:03PM -0400, Jeremy Portzer wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 11:46, zman wrote:
> > On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Tony Spencer wrote:
> > > This draft hoax is nothing more than a hoax.  My step-brother just 
> > > finished
> > > basic training this month.  Only 40 were selected out of 100 
> > > *volunteers*.
> > > Doesn't seem like the military is having any trouble recruiting.
> > 
> > Sorry to piss in your cornflakes, but it is not a hoax. There are bills 
> > in 
> > both the house and senate to reinstate the draft. I don't consider that a 
> > hoax. But of course if you have some other kind of dictionary you use...
> 
> Um, there haven't been any bills introduced.  That can be verified. 

You're right - it can. As false.

 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:H.R.163:
 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c108:S.89:

The bills are there. Nothing has been done with them, as you can see from
the bill summary and status page:

 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:h.r.00163:
 http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:s.00089:

But they're there. 

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