In the summer of 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to extend the Selective Service term of duty beyond that passed the year before in the nation's first peacetime draft. The vote, ...
The Military Selective Service Act (MSSA), first enacted as the Selective Service Act of 1948, provides the statutory authority for the federal government to maintain a Selective Service System (SSS) ...
Congress appropriates funds for the SSS through the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act./158 For FY2021, Congress appropriated $26 million, a decrease from the FY2020 ...