{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=ED0A3DCA-54B5-4DD5-97FE-EDB36EFEA2EF", "Boozman Backs National Security Package", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "John Boozman", "B001236", "www.boozman.senate.gov", "boozman", "https://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases", "scraper", "WASHINGTON\u2014U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) supported Senate passage of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 that delivers quality of life enhancements for our servicemembers and their families while strengthening America\u2019s national security through new policies that bolster recruiting, readiness and lethal capabilities.\n\nThe measure also contains provisions Boozman led to advance the creation of an Academic Training Center at Ebbing Air National Guard Base and a framework for the state of Arkansas to request permanent ownership of the former Army-Navy Hospital in Hot Springs.\n\n\u201cProviding for our national defense is one of Congress\u2019 primary responsibilities, particularly at an incredibly volatile time around the globe,\u201d Boozman said. \u201cThat begins with supporting our military personnel and their families with better pay, housing, childcare and other opportunities as well as improving recruitment efforts, enhancing our capacity to deter threats from adversaries, investing in our defense industrial base and ensuring readiness and lethality are the Pentagon\u2019s main focus. This bill does just that, including through vital missions and defense industrial support in Arkansas, and I\u2019m pleased it is now headed to the president\u2019s desk to become law.\u201d\n\nBoozman-led provisions in the FY25 NDAA:\n\nAuthorize funding for an Academic Training Center at Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith in support of the F-35 foreign pilot training mission; and\n\nAllow the state of Arkansas to develop or sell the former Army-Navy Hospital in Hot Springs; require development of the property to complement the national park; and provide a way for land to revert to the federal government if the state does not do so within three years.\n\nOther provisions in the legislation would:\n\nThe measure now heads to the president\u2019s desk to be signed into law.", 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://www.boozman.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=ED0A3DCA-54B5-4DD5-97FE-EDB36EFEA2EF"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8528020698577166, "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"}