{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://strong.house.gov/media/press-releases/ndaa-halts-space-command-construction-colorado", "NDAA Halts Space Command Construction in Colorado", "2023-12-13", "2023", "2023-12", "Republican", "House", "AL", "Dale W. Strong", "S001220", "strong.house.gov", "strong", "https://strong.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 The Fiscal Year 2024 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes a provision championed by Representative Dale Strong (AL-05) which prohibits funding from being used to expand U.S. Space Command (SPACECOM) headquarters in Colorado Springs, CO.\n\nSpecifically, Sec. 2889 in the NDAA will stop the combatant command from renting, planning, designing, or constructing new facilities.\n\n\u201cI promised to fight for Space Command from day one as your congressman, and refused to sit idly by as political influence was used to reverse a merit-based decision,\u201d said Representative Dale W. Strong.\n\nThe funding freeze will remain until at least June 30, 2024, and is contingent on completed investigations by both the Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) and the Comptroller General of the United States.\n\n\u201cI am confident that these new investigations will uncover executive interference from the Biden administration in the basing process,\u201d said Strong.\n\nThis will be the second DoD Inspector General investigation looking into the SPACECOM basing decision. The first, completed in May 2022, found that the U.S. Air Force\u2019s original decision for SPACECOM headquarters \u201cwas reasonable in identifying Huntsville as the preferred permanent location.\u201d\n\n\u201cDoing what\u2019s right for our armed forces and nation\u2019s security is my driving force. I\u2019m proud to be able to call attention to this bogus Biden decision and ensure that our taxpayer dollars are used in the best interest of national defense,\u201d said Strong.", 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://strong.house.gov/media/press-releases/ndaa-halts-space-command-construction-colorado"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0447450913488865, "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"}