{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-crow-secures-key-wins-for-colorado-s-servicemembers-buckley-space-force-base-in-annual-defense-legislation", "Congressman Crow Secures Key Wins for Colorado\u2019s Servicemembers, Buckley Space Force Base in Annual Defense Legislation", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "CO", "Jason Crow", "C001121", "crow.house.gov", "crow", "https://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "December 11, 2024\n\nCrow: \u201cThis bill will help to make critical infrastructure upgrades at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado and provide the largest pay raise for junior servicemembers\u2026\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2014 Today Congressman Jason Crow (CO-06), a former Army Ranger who serves as Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee\u2019s Subcommittee on Oversight and Accountability, voted to pass this year\u2019s National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA), which included key priorities he championed to bolster military readiness, improve the lives of US servicemembers and their families in Colorado, and build a stronger national defense at home and abroad.\n\n\u201cI will never forget what it\u2019s like to serve in the boots of an Army private. I know first-hand the impact our annual defense bill has on servicemembers\u2019 lives, military readiness, and our national security,\u201d said Congressman Crow. \u201cThis bill will help make critical infrastructure upgrades at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado and provide the largest pay raise for junior servicemembers to help support military readiness and retention.\u201d\n\nThis year\u2019s NDAA, includes the following Congressman Crow-led priorities:\n\nStrengthening the Future of Buckley Space Force Base:\n\nSupporting the Power Independence Project: Provision authorizing $68M for the Power Independence Project to ensure Buckley is able to field new Missile Warning capabilities and not face any power capacity limits.\n\nEnhancing Transparency and Oversight Policies:\n\nImproving Transparency on DOD Contracts: Provision that requires the Secretary of Defense to publicize formal guidance on the oversight of Department of Defense contracts that support or enable sensitive activities\n\nExtending Reporting Requirements: Provision requiring a report on the number of strikes undertaken by the United States against terrorist targets outside areas of active hostilities and the number of combatant and non-combatant deaths resulting from those strikes\n\nExamining the Impact of Civilian Harm: Provision examining the extent to which civilian harm that occurs during counterterrorism operations informs intelligence community analyses on mission success of campaigns to defeat foreign terrorist organizations\n\nEnsuring a More Cost-Effective Use of Taxpayer Dollars:\n\nWinding Down Duplicative Oversight Office: Provision to responsibly wind down the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), the office tasked with overseeing U.S. reconstruction assistance to Afghanistan, and transferring its role to permanent inspector general offices following the U.S. withdrawal in 2021\n\nBuilding a stronger national defense at home and abroad:\n\nUplifting Crisis Management Officials: Provision that designates a senior official within the State Department to coordinate the Department\u2019s overall response to international crises\n\nImproving Crisis Response Posture: Provision that requires regular tabletop crisis simulations and exercises to strengthen personnel training and improve overall response posture at the Department of State\n\nStrengthening Lessons Learned: Provision that establishes a clearinghouse of resources that lessons learned at the Department of State to improve crisis response and contingency planning\n\nBolstering Diplomatic Training: Provision that highlights the importance of crisis management in the training of foreign service officials\n\nThe final conference report also includes:\n\nIncreasing servicemember pay: A 14.5% pay increase for junior enlisted servicemembers, and a 4.5% pay increase for the remainder of the force.\n\nMaking life better for our servicemembers: Improvements for servicemember housing, health care, child care, and spousal support\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://crow.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-crow-secures-key-wins-for-colorado-s-servicemembers-buckley-space-force-base-in-annual-defense-legislation"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.310347044840455, "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"}