{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-senate-passage-of-ndaa", "Cotton Statement on Senate Passage of NDAA", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "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: Caroline Tabler or Patrick McCann (202) 224-2353\n\nDecember 18, 2024\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\u201cOur troops pledge their lives to the defense of our nation, and this bill gives them more support to perform that vital mission. I\u2019m pleased that this year\u2019s NDAA also ensures Arkansas remains a leader in our national defense by continued improvements to the Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, upgrading the Red River Army Depot, and emphasizing the importance of Pine Bluff Arsenal. This year\u2019s bill also included my provision that the Department of Defense cannot give contracts to tutoring services connected to Communist China and ensured that our nation\u2019s heroes are buried at Arlington National Cemetery with the military honors that they have earned and deserve. While I\u2019m disappointed it does not provide an increase in funding needed to field badly needed additional weapons, I\u2019m pleased the bill excludes the Democrats' idea to force women into the draft and protects children from irreversible medical treatments pushed by radical gender-theory ideologues.\u201d\n\n###", 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.cotton.senate.gov/news/press-releases/cotton-statement-on-senate-passage-of-ndaa"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.0449578985571861, "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"}