{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/issas-jax-act-gains-unanimous-vote-house-veterans-committee", "Issa's Jax Act Gains Unanimous Vote in House Veterans Committee", "2023-12-05", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "CA", "Darrell Issa", "I000056", "issa.house.gov", "issa", "https://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington \u2013 Today, The Jax Act, sponsored by Congressman Darrell Issa (CA-48), passed unanimously through the House Veterans' Affairs Committee.\n\nThe bill is named for Army combat veteran Jaclyn Scott \u2013 call sign \u201cJax\u201d \u2013 one of the 310 Cultural Support Team members (CSTs) who were deployed alongside Special Operations Forces soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.\n\nThe Jax Act will simply and accurately amend the military records of these female veterans and allow them the opportunity to have their medical claims reassessed at the VA. Currently, these women are being denied this designation, leading to the denial of rank, benefits, and critical health care services.\n\n\u201cThese 310 women served in combat and in the same capacity as their male counterparts. But to this day, they\u2019ve not received proper combat distinction. It\u2019s time for the truth to be told,\u201d said Rep. Issa. \u201cTheJax Act is not a new entitlement. It is the overdue correction of an error that has denied hundreds of female combat veterans the recognition they are owed for their brave service to our country. We have an opportunity to make this right. I thank Chairman Bost and the Veterans' Affairs Committee, and I look forward to passage by the full House of Representatives.\u201d", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T01:14:16Z"]], "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://issa.house.gov/media/press-releases/issas-jax-act-gains-unanimous-vote-house-veterans-committee"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8199010044336319, "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"}