{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=A7290251-3027-4ACB-98BF-9BBF0F61A0EE", "Barr Votes for National Defense Authorization Act", "2022-07-15", "2022", "2022-07", "Republican", "House", "KY", "Andy Barr", "B001282", "barr.house.gov", "barr", "https://barr.house.gov/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.\u2014 U.S. Congressman Andy Barr (KY-06) voted in support of the fiscal year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The NDAA provides $850 billion to modernize and strengthen our military. This package also contains a 4.6% pay raise for troops. Congressman Barr released the following statement regarding his vote:\n\n\u201cServicemembers are struggling to keep up with inflation and provide for their families while they protect our country. While this raise isn\u2019t enough to completely erase the impact of inflation, it will help our servicemembers as I continue to push to reverse the disastrous economic policies that created this historic inflation crisis. The NDAA also allocates a 2.4% pay bonus for enlisted military members to support lower-income military families.\n\n\u201cAdditionally, the NDAA combats the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) by providing $7 billion to the Pacific Deterrence Initiative and by fully funding military exercises in the Pacific to dissuade any further CCP aggression in the region. Furthermore, the NDAA requires regular updates to Congress on the status of arms sales to Taiwan to ensure our Taiwanese partners are fully equipped prior to any potential CCP attack on the island.\n\n\u201cIn Europe, the NDAA reinforces the Eastern flank of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization by providing $225 million to the Baltic Security Initiative. This package also fully funds the European Deterrence Initiative to thwart any further incursion by Russia into Eastern Europe.\n\n\u201cFinally, the NDAA extends the prohibition on dishonorable discharges for military servicemembers who chose not to receive a COVID-19 vaccine. It also rejects the Biden Administration\u2019s attempt to make the military go woke by injecting language into the NDAA reiterating that lethality is the central tenet of our national defense strategy. For all of these reasons, I voted yes on the NDAA.\u201d\n\nMultiple amendments from Congressman Barr were adopted in the NDAA. These amendments include:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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://barr.house.gov/press-releases?ID=A7290251-3027-4ACB-98BF-9BBF0F61A0EE"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9824479930102825, "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"}