{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-sen-wyden-sen-lummis-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-abolish-the-selective-service/", "Dr. Paul, Sen. Wyden, Sen. Lummis Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Abolish the Selective Service", "2024-08-05", "2024", "2024-08", "Republican", "Senate", "KY", "Rand Paul", "P000603", "www.paul.senate.gov", "paul", "https://www.paul.senate.gov/news/", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:\n\nAugust 2, 2024\n\nContact: Press_Paul@paul.senate.gov, 202-224-4344\n\nDr. Paul, Sen. Wyden, Sen. Lummis Introduce Bipartisan Bill to Abolish the Selective Service\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senators Rand Paul (R-KY), Ron Wyden (D-OR), and Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), today introduced a bipartisan bill to end the Selective Service.\n\nThe Selective Service runs an annual budget of more than $31 million, preparing for a draft that has not occurred since 1973.\n\n\u201cIt has been over 50 years since the draft was last used,\u201d said Dr. Paul. \u201cI\u2019ve long stated that if a war is worth fighting, Congress will vote to declare it and people will volunteer. This outdated government program no longer serves a purpose and should be eliminated permanently.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe Selective Service is a long-outdated program that eats up millions of taxpayer dollars and gives us nothing in return,\u201d Wyden said. \u201cOur volunteer military forces are the strongest in the world, and there simply isn\u2019t a need to replicate the same draft that sent two million unwilling young men to war 50 years ago. This is a commonsense bill that brings our military into the twentieth century and keeps money in American wallets.\u201d\n\nThe bill is endorsed by the Center on Conscience and War, World Beyond War, RootsAction.org, Military Law Task Force of the National Lawyers Guild, Resisters.info, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Antiwar.com, International Peace Research Association, American Friends Service Committee, Mennonite Central Committee U.S., War Resisters League, Fellowship of Reconciliation, and Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft.\n\nThe text of the bill is here.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:41:32Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.paul.senate.gov/dr-paul-sen-wyden-sen-lummis-introduce-bipartisan-bill-to-abolish-the-selective-service/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.687508076429367, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}