{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bentz.house.gov/media/press-releases/bentz-introduces-bill-hold-nprc-accountable", "Bentz Introduces Bill to Hold NPRC Accountable", "2022-04-28", "2022", "2022-04", "Republican", "House", "OR", "Cliff Bentz", "B000668", "bentz.house.gov", "bentz", "https://bentz.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, Congressman Cliff Bentz (OR-02) and 14 of his colleagues introduced the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) Accountability Act, a bill to return the NPRC to pre-pandemic funding levels if it fails to process and resolve the personnel record backlog of 600,000 requests before October 1, 2022.\n\n\u201cI was pleased to see the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) reopen in March of this year, after nearly two years of being closed. During its closure, many veterans in Oregon and across the country did not receive the records they require to demonstrate their military service. As a result, many of these individuals could not and cannot receive the medical care, disability compensation, and retirement pay they have earned in a timely manner. For example, after the Almeda Fire in southern Oregon, in which many veterans lost their medals and records, some cases were backlogged for over 800 days. The current backlog of some 600,000 cases needs to be swiftly resolved. This bill is simple: if NPRC does not do its job, they will lose the additional funding they received during the pandemic,\u201d said Rep. Cliff Bentz.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:19:30Z"]], "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://bentz.house.gov/media/press-releases/bentz-introduces-bill-hold-nprc-accountable"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.471049152314663, "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"}