{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center?ID=8660AC43-8AB0-439E-850A-CF32C618D9EB", "Rep. Scott DesJarlais Secures Over $175 Million in NDAA Funding for Tennessee", "2021-12-08", "2021", "2021-12", "Republican", "House", "TN", "Scott DesJarlais", "D000616", "desjarlais.house.gov", "desjarlais", "https://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center", "scraper", "(WASHINGTON, DC)\u2013 Last night, Congressman Scott DesJarlais (R-TN-04) voted in support of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2022.\n\n\u201cI am glad to see that the House and Senate could come together in a bipartisan fashion to put forth a budget that adequately funds our military and will help advance our capabilities to properly protect our citizens against our adversaries.\u201d\n\nDesJarlais secured over $175 million for Tennessee based projects during the House Armed Services Committee NDAA markup in September 2021.\n\n\u201cI am incredibly proud to announce that over $175 million of the fiscal year 2022 NDAA will go towards funding critical military operations carried out by Tennesseans.\n\nFunding for projects include:\n\n$120.6 MILLION for Arnold Air Force Base construction projects.\n\n$25 MILLION for partnership programs the UT Space Institute participates in.\n\n$10 MILLION for UT Space Institute, Fort Campbell and Vanderbilt partnership program to create new military technology.\n\n$20 MILLION for IAMCI machine and advanced manufacturing projects at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.\n\n\u201cWe have attracted the best and the brightest in our state and it is necessary that we continue to expand on the advances AEDC, UTSI, Vanderbilt, Fort Campbell, ORNL and other entities in our great state have made,\u201d said Rep. DesJarlais.\n\nThrough countless negotiations, DesJarlais worked behind the scenes with his fellow Republican colleagues to remove a Red Flag Law provision in the bill that limited the Second Amendment rights of many gun-owning veterans.\n\n\u201cThe far-left liberals have been trying to add their anti-2nd Amendment agenda to this important legislation for several years, and I am pleased to work behind the scenes with reasonable-minded colleagues to remove these provisions in the past two years.\u201d\n\nSome other highlights of the Fiscal Year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act include:\n\nAuthorization of a 2.7% pay increase for service members.\n\nFocuses investment on new and emerging weapon systems capable of penetrating denied operating environments such as China.\n\nRequires DoD to report to Congress on the costs and time wasted on training on topics like diversity, inclusion, and equity.\n\nGets China out of DoD supply chains.\n\nSeeks answers on the origins of COVID-19.\n\nCongressman DesJarlais voted, yes, on the final version of the bill, S. 1605 - [National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022] on the House floor last night.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:37:48Z"]], "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://desjarlais.house.gov/media-center?ID=8660AC43-8AB0-439E-850A-CF32C618D9EB"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5291369636543095, "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"}