June 3, 2005

House Fires New Salvo in Recruitment Fight

By KELLY FIELD

The U.S. House of Representatives adopted an amendment last week that would require the secretary of defense to submit a report listing the colleges and universities that are not providing equal access to military recruiters and Reserve Officer Training Corps programs.

The amendment, offered during debate over a bill authorizing spending on the Department of Defense for the 2006 fiscal year (HR 1815), is the latest salvo in the battle over the Solomon Amendment, a decade-old law that

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