{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://sarajacobs.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-sara-jacobs-celebrates-2024-accomplishments", "Rep. Sara Jacobs Celebrates 2024 Accomplishments", "2024-12-23", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "CA", "Sara Jacobs", "J000305", "sarajacobs.house.gov", "sarajacobs", "https://sarajacobs.house.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "This year, Rep. Sara Jacobs (CA-51) delivered for San Diego by bringing home millions of taxpayer dollars and expanding access to child care and housing for military families.\n\nRep. Sara Jacobs said: \u201cThis has been a tough year for our community and our country. Our politics feel more divided than ever, but despite all of the chaos in Washington, I\u2019ve shown that we can still get things done. My team assisted over 1,400 San Diegans who needed help getting answers from federal agencies and returned over $23 million to my constituents. I brought home millions of federal dollars to address the most pressing issues facing San Diego from the Tijuana River Valley crisis to our immigration challenges. And I\u2019m so proud of my work to help live up to the promises that we\u2019ve made to our service members and military families by raising their pay, expanding access to child care and housing, and empowering them to decide for themselves if, when, and how to build their families. Heading into 2025, I will continue working with anyone to deliver for our community and challenging our traditional thinking about how things have always been done because the status quo isn\u2019t working for so many people.\u201d\n\nRep. Sara Jacobs\u2019 Accomplishments in 2024 Include:\n\nHer office helped 1,439 San Diegans who needed assistance with federal agencies\n\nHer office returned over $23 million to San Diegans who were entitled to backpay from the VA, tax refunds, Social Security reimbursements, and more\n\nShe brought home $406 million in federal funds to upgrade and repair the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant to address the Tijuana River Valley crisis \u2013 one of the community\u2019s most urgent public health and safety issues\n\nShe secured $82 million in federal funds for San Diego non-profits to prevent street releases and treat migrants and asylum seekers with dignity and respect\n\nShe secured a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted service members and a 4.5% pay raise for all other service members\n\nShe eliminated co-pays for birth control for service members and their dependents\n\nShe championed the effort to reimburse active duty service members for the cost of freezing their eggs and sperm\n\nShe helped expand military access to child care and reduce the military child care waitlist in San Diego that\u2019s recently been up to 4,000 spots long by redesigning and modernizing how the Department of Defense staffs and pays their child care workers, eliminating child care fee assistance wait lists by fully funding child care fee assistance programs, and covering 100% of the child care fees for the first child of a child care provider\n\nShe helped expand access to and improve the quality of military housing \u2013 especially for junior enlisted service members \u2013 by expanding Commanding Officers\u2019 authorization of the Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)\n\nShe passed the bipartisan Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act \u2013 legislation that she co-leads to prevent law enforcement and intelligence agencies from buying American\u2019s personal information without a warrant \u2013 through the House\n\nShe passed the bipartisan Return Home to Housing Act \u2013 legislation that she co-leads to provide more veterans with safe, transitional housing \u2013 through the House\n\nShe secured a direct flight to and from Washington, D.C.\u2019s Ronald Reagan National Airport (DCA) and San Diego, helping San Diego\u2019s military community travel efficiently to the Pentagon and strengthening San Diego\u2019s status as a binational tourist destination. Prior to this change, San Diego was the largest passenger market located outside the perimeter without non-stop service to DCA.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:07:19Z"]], "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://sarajacobs.house.gov/news/press-releases/rep-sara-jacobs-celebrates-2024-accomplishments"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.4991387724876404, "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"}