{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-hails-key-veterans-health-care-bill-becoming-law", "Rep. Stansbury Hails Key Veterans\u2019 Health Care Bill Becoming Law", "2022-08-10", "2022", "2022-08", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "\u201cToday, we tooka critical step to honor ournation\u2019s heroes with more than just words.The bipartisan Honoring Our PACT Act of 2022 will improve health carefor 3.5 million veterans, the single biggest increase inservices for veterans who have been exposed to dangerous substances in over 30 years.\n\n\u201cWe owe it to our soldiers to provide them the healthcare they need to recover from conditionsthey were exposed to while serving our country.After breathing toxic fumes from burn pits, too many veteranshave had tolive withcreeping andunexplainedillnesses while being denied care by the nation they served so honorably. I\u2019m proud that the PACT Act will strengthen health care and benefits for our veterans,and I will continue the work to honor our sacred pact to our nation\u2019s veterans in Congress.\u201d\n\nRep. Stansbury has fought for our nation\u2019s veterans throughout her service in Congress, voting to passthe Honoring our Pact Act of 2022in March.Rep. Stansbury has also joined members of New Mexico\u2019scongressionaldelegationto fight against the closure of rural VA outpatient clinics that provide critical healthcare toNew Mexico\u2019sveterans.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:59:24Z"]], "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://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-stansbury-hails-key-veterans-health-care-bill-becoming-law"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.522917930036783, "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"}