{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://susielee.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-lees-defense-bill-provisions-nevada-pass-house", "Congresswoman Lee\u2019s Defense Bill Provisions for Nevada Pass House", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "House", "NV", "Susie Lee", "L000590", "susielee.house.gov", "susielee", "https://susielee.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON \u2013 Today, Congresswoman Susie Lee (NV-03) voted to pass the bipartisan National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025. The legislation includes a number of wins for military families, national security, and Nevada-specific projects.\n\n\u201cThis year's bipartisan defense bill makes critical investments in our national security and the military families who make sacrifices every day to keep us safe. Notably, it includes a 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers and a 4.5% raise for all other troops. I was proud to also secure several provisions to improve health care for southern Nevada\u2019s servicemembers and boost our military readiness,\u201d said Congresswoman Susie Lee.\n\nLee\u2019s amendments and legislation passed as part of the defense bill include:\n\nImproved trauma care for civilians at military treatment facilities, such as through the program run by Nellis AFB\u2019s Mike O\u2019Callaghan Military Medical Center, strengthening emergency care services for the entire southern Nevada community.\n\nLanguage paving the way for Lee\u2019s Military and Educational Data Integration Act to help states provide better information to students about military service as a possible career path, as well as language protecting and expanding the Junior Reserve Officers\u2019 Training Corps (JROTC).\n\nRequirements from the Blast Overpressure Safety Act, which Lee co-leads, to better protect servicemembers from blast overpressure and traumatic brain injuries sustained in the line of duty.\n\nAdditionally, the bipartisan defense bill makes significant improvements to quality of life for military servicemembers and their families, including:\n\nA 14.5% pay raise for junior enlisted servicemembers and 4.5% pay raise for all other servicemembers.\n\nExpanding childcare benefits through Department of Defense Child Development Programs, fully funds childcare fee assistance programs, and ensures that pay for childcare staff at Department of Defense childcare centers is competitive with private industry.\n\nImproving servicemember housing with $177 million in military construction design funds to accelerate replacement of poor and failing unaccompanied housing and barracks.\n\nCombatting servicemember food insecurity through a re-evaluation of the Basic Allowance for Subsistence.\n\nEliminating copays for contraceptives and establishes a demonstration program for cryopreservation storage, effectively lowering the cost of and expanding protections for servicemembers\u2019 reproductive care.\n\nSupporting opportunities for military spouses to find gainful employment and take care of their families.\n\nThe defense bill also includes key priorities for Nevada national security installations and servicemembers:\n\n$136.3 million for construction projects at the Nevada National Security Site and military installations across Nevada.\n\nNo funding for defense nuclear waste storage at Yucca Mountain.\n\n$220 million for the procurement of two additional C-130Js, which will bring the Nevada Air National Guard one step closer to securing the aircraft they need to continue their wildland fire fighting and national defense missions.\n\nThe FY25 NDAA also includes critical investments to our ally Israel for programs such as the Iron Dome, David\u2019s Sling Weapons System, and the Arrow 3 Upper Tier Interceptor Program.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T22:13:55Z"]], "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://susielee.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-lees-defense-bill-provisions-nevada-pass-house"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6879071481525898, "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"}