The Senate passed a sweeping defense authorization bill Tuesday without floor debates over sexual assault in the military or expanding draft registration to women.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand tried to get a floor vote on her proposal to overhaul the way the Pentagon handles claims of sexual assaults by removing prosecution decisions from the regular chain-of-command. But Tuesday, the Democrat from New York did not even get that far.

“Our military justice system is broken. It’s failing our members,” Gillibrand said on the Senate floor. “Once and for all, let’s take this decision to prosecute these crimes and give it to trained independent military prosecutors.”

The language requiring women to register for selective service was already part of the defense authorization bill. So by failing to debate an amendment excising that provision, the Senate agreed to allow for registration

Gillibrand and a bipartisan coalition led on the GOP side by Judiciary Chairman Charles E. Grassley of Iowa sought those changes, in the face of bipartisan opposition from a separate group of lawmakers often led by Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill.