{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-votes-yes-ndaa", "Hageman Votes Yes on NDAA", "2024-06-14", "2024", "2024-06", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Image\n\nJune 14, 2024\n\nIncludes pay raises and improved healthcare for servicemembers, bans travel for abortions\n\nWashington, DC \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Harriet Hageman voted in favor of the Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (NDAA). This legislation improves servicemembers\u2019 quality of life \u2013 highlighted by a 19.5% pay raise for junior enlisted members and expanded access to healthcare providers \u2013 while equipping our military with the resources to counter the rapidly growing threats from Communist China and restore American deterrence. It also provides much-needed oversight and crackdown on waste, fraud, and abuse, saving taxpayers tens of billions of dollars.\n\nRepresentative Hageman stated, \u201cThis year\u2019s NDAA strengthens our military by providing much needed pay raises and healthcare improvements for our servicemembers, countering Chinese aggression, cutting down on the waste and duplication within the DoD, and ending \u2018woke\u2019 policies that have nothing to do with defending our country. Under Joe Biden\u2019s failed leadership, the world has become a more dangerous place. It is critical that we support our military in such precarious times and ensure that it is focused on defeating our enemies and securing our borders.\u201d\n\nThe FY25 NDAA Improves Service Member Quality of Life:\n\nBoosting Compensation: Gives junior enlisted servicemembers a 19.5% pay raise, expands allowances for housing and food, and improves the cost-of-living calculation.\n\nImproving Housing: Boosts funding for housing maintenance accounts and strengthens oversight of military housing programs.\n\nEnsuring Access to Medical Care: Reduces healthcare wait times by expanding access to medical providers, especially mental health providers, and increases oversight of healthcare accessibility for servicemembers.\n\nEnhancing Support for Military Spouses: Makes it easier for spouses to transfer professional licenses across states and expands DoD programs that provide employment support.\n\nIncreasing Access to Childcare: Improves access to childcare by mitigating childcare staffing shortages at DoD facilities and fully funding childcare fee assistance programs.\n\nThe FY25 NDAA Restores American Deterrence:\n\nDeterring Communist China:\n\nPrevents Communist China\u2019s espionage in our military, supply chain, and research institutions.\n\nReforms DoD acquisitions to expedite the fielding of innovative technologies that we need to deter Communist China\u2019s aggression.\n\nBolsters Taiwan\u2019s defense, supports Indo-Pacific allies, and increases funding for U.S. defense initiatives in the Indo-Pacific.\n\nRestoring Lethality:\n\nBases promotions on merit, ends affirmative action at service academies, and abolishes DEI bureaucracy at DoD schools.\n\nRequires the DoD develop a strategy to recruit individuals previously discharged solely based on their refusal to take the COVID\u201319 vaccine\n\nRequires commissioned officers to be trained on the Constitution, including on the oath to it they take and on civil-military relations, separation of powers, and the domestic use of military force.\n\nProhibits the Secretary of Defense from paying for or reimbursing expenses relating to abortion services.\n\nProhibits TRICARE and the DoD from furnishing gender transition surgeries and gender hormone treatments for individuals that identify as transgender.\n\nSecuring America:\n\nFully funds the deployment of National Guard troops at the southwest border.\n\nExpands authorities and increases funding for DoD counternarcotic activities.\n\nBlocks DoD from using its aircraft to bring Palestinian refugees to the U.S.\n\nOversight & Accountability:\n\nSaves $30 billion by cutting inefficient programs, obsolete weapons, and Pentagon bureaucracy.\n\nCracks down on contractor waste by cutting $4.3 billion in programs that aren\u2019t meeting requirements.\n\nRequires the DoD to complete an audit or lose discretionary budget authority.\n\n###\n\nContact: Chris Berardi, Sr. Advisor/Communications Directo", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:11:47Z"]], "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://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-votes-yes-ndaa"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4287927187979221, "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"}