{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases/stansbury-secures-over-9-million-new-mexico-votes-raise-servicemember-pay", "Stansbury Secures Over $9 Million for New Mexico, Votes to Raise Servicemember Pay in Defense Bill", "2022-07-14", "2022", "2022-07", "Democrat", "House", "NM", "Melanie A. Stansbury", "S001218", "stansbury.house.gov", "stansbury", "https://stansbury.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "July 14, 2022\n\nRep. Stansbury secured two projects advancing Kirtland Air Force Base\u2019s strategic contributions at the forefront of national defense\n\nWASHINGTON\u2014Today, U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury (N.M.-01) secured $9.1 million to build two new mission headquarter facilities at Kirtland Air Force Base. The funding will sustain the New Mexico base\u2019s strong contributions to national security and benefit economic growth throughout the First Congressional District. Rep. Stansbury voted for the provisions and a 4.6% pay raise for servicemembers as part of the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act that passed the House this evening.\n\nRep. Stansbury secured $9.1 million to build new headquarters facilities for the Space Rapid Capabilities Office (SPRCO) and the Joint Navigation Warfare Center (JNWC) at Kirtland. The funds for the SPRCO facility will support the new office\u2019s mission to rapidly develop and field classified space capabilities at Kirtland AFB. The JNWC facility will support an increase of over 120 new personnel as the office carries out additional missions.\n\n\u201cFrom our servicemembers at Kirtland to scientists at Sandia Labs and AFRL, New Mexicans play a vital role in serving our country and national security,\u201d said Rep. Stansbury. \u201cThis year, I\u2019m proud to have secured investments in key facility investments so that Kirtland Air Force Base can continue to be a leader in national security. This National Defense Authorization Act provides a pay raise to our hardworking civilian Department of Defense employees, invests in the health and well-being of our servicemembers and their families, and raises the minimum wage for all employees and contractors.\u201d\n\nRep. Stansbury also voted to pass critical provisions in the Fiscal Year 2023 National Defense Authorization Act for New Mexico including:\n\nA 4.6% pay raise for service members and civilians, in addition to supporting inflation bonuses for many service members and civilians\n\nA $15 minimum wage for workers on federal service and construction contracts\n\nA 20% increase in basic research funding, strengthening the pipeline of future innovation\n\nAn extension of National Guard support for the Fireguard program until 2029.\n\nAdditional behavioral health providers\n\nThe FY2023 NDAA also:\n\nSupports Military Service Members and Families\n\nAdds $750 million for commissary to help reduce costs.\n\nBasic Allowance for Housing (BAH): Adds funds to decrease BAH reduction by 2% and requires a report on a more transparent, fair, and flexible way to calculate the basic allowance for housing.\n\nCreates a victims compensation fund to ensure survivors of interpersonal crimes have the financial resources they need for financial assistance, safe housing, and any property damage that may have occurred as a result of the crime.\n\nChild care: Requires the Secretary of Defense to complete a pay study and adjust the pay of child development center employees as compared to similarly trained and qualified public elementary school employees.\n\nSpouse change of station reimbursement: Authorizes financial reimbursement for moving expenses for spouses with home businesses.\n\nAccess to behavioral health: The bill includes several provisions that would:\n\nIncrease opportunities to grow the number of available behavioral health providers.\n\nRequire analysis of the number of providers needed to support care delivered at military treatment facilities and embedded in operational units.\n\nEstablish a program to better train civilian behavioral health providers to meet the unique challenges of service members and their families.\n\nExpand license portability for providers delivering non-medical counseling.\n\nRequire GAO to review whether TRICARE conforms with the requirements of certain mental health parity laws.\n\nSupports Addressing Issues Related to Wildfires\n\nExtends the National Guard support for the Fireguard program until 2029.\n\nRequires the DoD to reimburse states, post-enactment, for any firefighting costs related to wildfires started on lands controlled by the DoD.\n\nAllows the DoD to transfer aircraft to other departments for the purposes of aiding search and rescue operations or emergency operations related to wildfires.\n\nAdds the \u201cNational Interagency Fire Center\u201d to the list of agencies that the National Guard should consult with during wildfire training\n\nAccelerates Innovation Across the Science and Technology Ecosystem\n\nAuthorizes a 20 percent increase in basic research funding, strengthening the pipeline of future innovation.\n\nAuthorizes $500 million to create a new class of biomanufacturing capabilities and facilities, providing a crucial capability to transition products successfully proven in the lab to commercial scale.\n\nAuthorizes an additional $100 million to strengthen the domestic supply chain for critical elements of microelectronics production.\n\nContinues Efforts to Address PFAS and PFOA Contamination\n\nRequires the DoD to send a list of essential uses for PFAS. Also requires the DoD to report on its progress in minimizing the use of certain non-essential PFOS and PFOA containing items.\n\nRequires the DoD to implement Comptroller General recommendations to set goals for the timely clean-up of formerly used defense sites that fall under the military munitions response program.\n\nModifies a prize program created in the FY21 NDAA created to incentivize private sector development of AFFF alternatives to include research on PFAS-free personal protective firefighting equipment.\n\nRequires the DoD to adhere to the strictest relevant standard (state or federal) when conducting environmental remediation of PFAS contamination.\n\nExpands the list of non-essential items containing PFAS that DoD is prohibited from procuring for use within the DoD.\n\nSupports Europe and Ukraine\u2019s Capabilities to Counter Russia\n\nFully funds the European Deterrence Initiative (EDI) budget request and invests in additional capabilities that support deterrence in the European Command area of operations, totaling $4.6 billion for EDI purposes.\n\nIncludes $1 billion for the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative (USAI), which provides support and assistance to the Ukrainian Armed Forces \u2014 an increase of $700 million above the budget request. Harmonizes USAI statutory authorities with changes made in the Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, and the Additional Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2022, and allows for the replenishment of stocks of comparable ally and partner equipment provided to Ukraine.\n\nExpresses the Sense of Congress in strong support of U.S. commitments to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) alliance and European partners.\n\nSupports enhanced forward U.S. and allied posture to adapt to the new security environment created by Russia\u2019s unprovoked further invasion of Ukraine.\n\nCombating reliance on Russian energy: Requires all main operating bases in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility to adopt installation energy plans to increase energy resiliency and sustainability in order to reduce reliance on Russian energy and sets a DoD goal of eliminating their use of Russian energy entirely.\n\nSupports and Empowers HBCUs and Other Minority Serving Institutions\n\nTriples funding for HBCUs, to over $111 million.\n\nRequires the DoD to submit a report on actions that may be carried out to increase the participation of minority-serving institutions in the research, development, test, and evaluation activities of the DoD following the release of the National Academies study on defense research capacity at HBCUs and other minority serving institutions.\n\nEstablishes the Dellums Fellowship Program to provide scholarships and internships for eligible students, particularly women of color, with high potential talent in science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics.\n\nEstablishes a pilot program to increase research capacity at HBCUs and other minority serving institutions and implements a minority institution subcontracting requirement for UARCs.", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T02:49:02Z"]], "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/stansbury-secures-over-9-million-new-mexico-votes-raise-servicemember-pay"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.243747003376484, "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"}