{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-lauren-boebert-votes-support-troops", "Rep. Lauren Boebert Votes To Support The Troops", "2024-12-13", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "House", "CO", "Lauren Boebert", "B000825", "boebert.house.gov", "boebert", "https://boebert.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 Congresswoman Lauren Boebert (CO-03) released the following statement after voting to support funding for our troops and in favor of H.R. 5009, the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25 NDAA):\n\n\u201cEnsuring our patriotic men and women in uniform have the resources they need to safely accomplish their missions is one of the foremost duties of Congress. This year\u2019s NDAA that passed the House with my support fully funds our national defense, cuts more than $30 billion from inefficient programs, roots out wokeness, deters Chinese Communist Party aggression, supports Israel, and even cracks down on the Biden border invasion. Our servicemembers, who have been neglected by the Biden Regime for the past four years, are the best among us and inspire the best within us. I am certain under the incoming Trump Administration, we will ensure our military is stronger than ever,\u201d said Congresswoman Boebert.\n\nBackground:\n\nThis week the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5009, the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25 NDAA) with a vote of 281-140.\n\nThe FY25 NDAA included a negotiated version of Congresswoman Lauren Boebert\u2019s bill H.R. 4596, the Upper Colorado and San Juan River Basins Endangered Fish Recovery Programs Reauthorization Act. Read more HERE.\n\nTwo of Congresswoman Boebert's amendments were also included in the final version of the FY25 NDAA passed by the House of Representatives this week:\n\nDivision A, Title VIII, Subtitle E, Sec. 855: Prohibits the Department of Defense from contracting with entities that are engaged in boycotting Israel.\n\nDivision A, Title V, Subtitle E, Sec. 547: Prohibits federal funding for a woke working group that unfairly targets patriots in our military.\n\nAdditional Background courtesy of Majority Whip Tom Emmer\n\nThe FY25 Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act:\n\nThe final FY25 NDAA builds on the wins House Republicans secured last year to strengthen our military, deter our adversaries, and end Democrats\u2019 efforts to inject wokeness into the military. It fully funds our national defense while rejecting the Senate\u2019s effort to increase spending above previously agreed upon levels. The negotiated bill focuses resources on improving the lives of our servicemembers, and their families, who sacrifice so much to protect our nation. It takes important steps to address the security threats America faces from adversaries including China, Iran, and foreign terrorist organizations and revitalizes our defense industrial base. Critically, it refocuses our military on lethality, stopping the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s efforts to force their far-Left agenda on our nation\u2019s warfighters.\n\nFully funds our national defense while cutting costs and improving efficiency.\n\nAuthorizes $895.2 billion for national defense discretionary programs, an increase of $9 billion or 1% over the FY24 enacted level, rejecting the Senate\u2019s effort to increase spending by $28 billion over previously agreed to levels, and in line with Fiscal Responsibility Act.\n\nSaves taxpayers $31 billion, or 4%, of current DoD spending levels by cutting inefficient programs, obsolete weapons systems, and unnecessary Pentagon bureaucracy.\n\nRequires all DoD components to undertake an annual independent audit and reduces funds available to such components by 1.5% if it fails to undertake the audit.\n\nThe FY24 NDAA (P.L. 118-311) banned critical race theory (CRT) in the military, gutted DEI at the Department of Defense (DoD), and included the Parents Bill of Rights to ensure military parents\u2019 right to review curriculum, meet with teachers, and provide consent before any medical exams or screenings at school. The FY25 bill builds on those gains to end the radical woke ideology being forced on our servicemen and women and restores the focus of our military on lethality.\n\nPermanently bans DoD from funding transgender medical treatments for children.\n\nProhibits funding for the teaching, training, or promotion of CRT in the military, including at service academies and DoD schools.\n\nGuts DEI bureaucracy by extending the DEI hiring freeze, prohibiting DoD from contracting with advertising firms like NewsGuard that blacklist conservative news sources, and banning funding for DoD\u2019s politically biased Countering Extremism Working Group.\n\nCounters antisemitism by prohibiting the sale of goods at DoD commissaries and exchanges from any entities that have or are engaged in a boycott of Israel and preventing DoD from using or citing casualty data from Hamas and other terrorist organizations.\n\nPrevents a military Green New Deal by prohibiting DoD from requiring the use of zero emission vehicles for official travel and issuing new climate changes rules that give preference to weapon systems with lower climate impacts or hamper the defense industrial base.\n\nProtects the rights of servicemembers by requiring DoD to implement unanimous jury verdicts for courts-martial.\n\nImproves servicemember quality of life to address military recruitment, retention, and readiness.\n\nAuthorizes a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers and supports a 4.5% pay raise for all other servicemembers.\n\nAddresses chronic underfunding of housing maintenance to address poor conditions like sewage overflows, gas leaks, and mold.\n\nEnsures access to medical care, including mental health services and specialty providers.\n\nIncreases access to childcare by authorizing $176 million for construction of new childcare centers.\n\nSupports military spouses by making it easier to find and maintain employment.\n\nImproves DoD schools by authorizing over $110 million to build new schools for children of servicemembers.\n\nEnhances career transition assistance, including ensuring the Transition Assistance Program includes a pathway to aid retiring members of the reserve components.\n\nAddress the Biden-Harris\u2019 Administration\u2019s failure to reach annual recruiting goals by extending military recruitment bonuses, increasing funding and support for JROTC programs, and expediting the processing of medical records to get recruits into the service quicker.\n\nDeters Chinese Communist Party (CCP) aggression.\n\nAuthorizes $15.6 billion, $5.7 billion more than requested in Biden\u2019s budget, for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative to enhance U.S. deterrence and defense posture in the Indo-Pacific region and over $490 million in INDOPACOM Commander priorities left unfunded in the Biden budget.\n\nIncreases funding for innovative new technologies needed to deter the CCP, including hypersonics and AI.\n\nPrevents Chinese espionage by prohibiting contracting with the subsidiaries of any Chinese civil-military companies to include any subsidiaries, the sharing of sensitive missile defense information with China, and Chinese nationals from being admitted to nuclear facilities.\n\nBolsters Taiwan\u2019s defense and supports our Indo-Pacific allies and partners.\n\nIncreases oversight and accountability of the DoD.\n\nEnsures the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter meets performance requirements.\n\nCracks down on contractor waste by cutting over $3.9 billion in weapons programs that have not met development milestones or are experiencing excessive cost growth.\n\nEnhances congressional oversight of DoD programs.\n\nImproves military readiness, strengthens our industrial base, and supports the deployment of innovative and new technologies to ensure our warfighters are prepared for whatever lies ahead.\n\nBlocks the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s plan to reduce the number of U.S. Special Forces and request to divest certain aircraft.\n\nIncreases funding to develop and procure counter drone systems.\n\nSupports investments in shipyard infrastructure and industrial base.\n\nProvides unprecedented levels of support for, our ally, Israel, and the resources necessary to counter our adversaries.\n\nDeclares that it is the policy of the United States to ensure Israel has adequate stocks of air defense interceptors to defend itself against Iran and its proxies, including Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.\n\nAuthorizes full funding for joint U.S.-Israel cooperative missile defense programs (Iron Dome, Arrow, David\u2019s Sling).\n\nReverses the Biden-Harris Administration\u2019s decision to cease production of the Standard Missile 3 Block IB interceptor for the Navy\u2019s Aegis missile defense system, which has played a key role in defending Israel from Iranian ballistic missile attacks.\n\nExtends the prohibition on closing Guantanamo Bay and moving terrorists to prisons in the U.S.\n\nStrengthens our nuclear posture, improves missile defense, and accelerates delivery of space capabilities to deter the rapidly expanding Chinese and Russian nuclear arsenals and space capabilities.\n\nFully funds modernization of the nuclear triad and invests in nuclear sea-launched cruise missiles.\n\nContinues support for investments in innovative commercial space solutions that would increase our capacity and resilience in space.\n\nContinues DoD support of law enforcement operations along our southwest and maritime borders.\n\nFully supports deployment of National Guard troops to augment Border Patrol activities at the southwest border.\n\nAuthorizes $90 million for construction of a new Joint Inter-Agency Task Force South (JIATF-S) Command and Control Facility to detect and interdict illegal migrants and narcotics.\n\nIncreases funding by $10 million for DoD counternarcotics activities.\n\nExpands DoD\u2019s authority to assist law enforcement in the interdiction of narcotics traffickers.\n\n###", 1, 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