{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=888", "Arrington Addresses COVID-19 Vaccine Mandate Repeal in NDAA", "2022-12-08", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "House", "TX", "Jodey C. Arrington", "A000375", "arrington.house.gov", "arrington", "https://arrington.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON, D.C. \u2013 Today, Representative Arrington (TX-19) released the following statement regarding the repeal of the Biden Administration\u2019s military COVID-19 vaccine mandate in the House-passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2023.\n\n\u201cI am proud that this NDAA not only gave our troops the resources necessary to be safe and successful, but repealed Biden\u2019s disastrous vaccine mandate \u2014 an irresponsible and heavy-handed policy that ruined many careers and caused us to lose some of our best warriors,\u201d said Rep. Arrington.\n\nSince the vaccine mandate went into effect, Biden\u2019s Department of Defense has discharged over 8,000 active duty service members for refusing the vaccine, including:\n\n3,717 Marines (Of the 3,733 Marines who requested religious exemptions from the mandate, only 11 were granted.)\n\n1,841 soldiers\n\n2,064 sailors\n\n834 airmen\n\nPotentially an additional 9,000 National Guard guardsmen\n\nThis reckless COVID-19 vaccine mandate took place as the Army fell 15,000 soldiers short of their recruitment goal for Fiscal Year 2022, missing by 25 percent.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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://arrington.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=888"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.436844002455473, "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"}