Congressman Mo Brooks Votes Against Drafting Teenage Women

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Today, Congressman Mo Brooks (AL-5) voted "No" on the initial House passage of the National Defense Authorization Act ("NDAA"). The NDAA passed the House on a 316-113 vote. Republicans voted 134-76 for the NDAA. Democrats voted 182-37 for the NDAA.

In the Alabama delegation, four Congressmen (all Republicans) voted against and three Congressmen (two Republicans, one Democrat) voted for the NDAA in its current form.

Congressman Brooks stated, "Today's vote on the NDAA was a "damned if you do, damned if you don't' vote in which Socialist Democrats mix motherhood and apple pie with the devil's doings, thus forcing Congressmen to either vote against good things they like or vote for bad things they detest. In sum, Congress can and should do better when authorizing America's national defense programs."

Congressman Brooks continued, "Alabama citizens overwhelmingly reject taxpayers being forced to pay medical expenses for those who engage in transgender surgery and a life-time of costly hormonal treatments, reject Marxist and racist Critical Race Theory being forced down the throats of American service members, reject subjecting teenage girls to a military draft, reject using national security to promote private-sector unionization, reject the denial of due process for those who exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms, and the like. My vote reflects the will of Alabama citizens."

Congressman Brooks concluded, "The House Armed Services Committee's Republican Ranking Member assures me the Socialists' more onerous provisions in the NDAA will be stricken in conference between the House and Senate. If that different, improved bill reaches the House floor, I will vote for it."

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