{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/12/17/2025/cotton-statement-on-senate-passage-of-ndaa", "Cotton Statement on Senate Passage of NDAA", "2025-12-17", "2025", "2025-12", "Republican", "Senate", "AR", "Tom Cotton", "C001095", "www.cotton.senate.gov", "cotton", "https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE\n\nContact: Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nDecember 17, 2025\n\nCotton Statement on Senate Passage of NDAA\n\nWashington, D.C. \u2014 Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the Senate voted to pass the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):\n\n\u201cI commend the Trump administration for working with Congress to ensure in this year\u2019s NDAA that our warfighters have the tools they need to deter, and if necessary, defend our nation from any threat that we may face. This year\u2019s defense bill finally provides our troops the tools to defend our nation\u2014and Arkansas will play a key role. Munitions production at Pine Bluff Arsenal will not only continue, but will expand, while the C-130 training mission at Little Rock Air Force Base will continue uninterrupted. These investments are good for our state and support President Trump\u2019s goal of building more munitions faster. This year\u2019s bill also includes my legislation to counter the risks that unidentified drones pose to everything from our military bases to Razorback Stadium. Finally, this bill also includes much-needed efforts to protect our nation\u2019s critical infrastructure, which is threatened by Communist China and other foreign adversaries. I am proud to support this bill that rebuilds and modernizes our military, and I look forward to this bill being signed into law by President Trump.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T20:09:11Z"]], "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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/12/17/2025/cotton-statement-on-senate-passage-of-ndaa"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.8766530081629753, "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"}