{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-support-armed-forces-with-ndaa-passage", "Crapo, Risch Support Armed Forces with NDAA Passage", "2022-12-15", "2022", "2022-12", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.-- U.S. Senators Mike Crapo and Jim Risch (both R-Idaho) voted in support of the Fiscal Year (FY) 2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), fulfilling Congress\u2019 constitutional duty to \u201cprovide for the common defense.\u201d\n\nThe FY 2023 NDAA provides U.S. troops with a needed pay raise and increases authorized defense funding. Republican lawmakers successfully prevented progressive lawmakers from using the military funding bill to advance far-left priorities, such as DC statehood, and created a briefing requirement for all military support deployed to the southern border.\n\n\u201cThe provisions included in the FY2023 NDAA are critical for boosting America\u2019s national security at home and abroad,\u201d said Crapo. \u201cThis year\u2019s NDAA supports Idaho\u2019s military personnel and industries by advocating for the Idaho Air National Guard, funding military technologies developed in Idaho and protecting our servicemembers from draconian COVID vaccine mandates. Supporting our Armed Forces also means providing for them as they exit active military service. By permanently authorizing the DOD SkillBridge program, servicemembers in their initial stages of separation gain experience in a field of their interest and support the transition of these selfless men and women back to civilian life.\u201d\n\n\u201cThe FY 2023 NDAA ensures our military is equipped with the necessary resources to defend our country,\u201d said Risch. \u201cThis legislation includes wins for Idaho like ensuring Idaho\u2019s Air National Guard can continue its A-10 mission, repealing the vaccine mandate for active military, and preventing a Democrat-led effort to include women in the draft. While more remains to be done to protect service members who were discharged from their military service because of their refusal to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, this bill will ultimately help strengthen our military and America\u2019s defenses.\u201d\n\nSenators Crapo and Risch secured a number of provisions important to the state of Idaho in final passage of the NDAA, including:\n\nEnsuring the Idaho Air National Guard maintains its flying mission while allowing the Air Force to divest a certain number of A-10s;\n\nAiding the development of digital night vision technology, in which Idaho industry plays a key role;\n\nRepealing the DOD vaccine mandate on active military personnel; and\n\nFunding for the Range Craft Berthing Facility at the Navy\u2019s Acoustic Research Detachment in Bayview and $379 million for the Idaho National Laboratory.\n\nSenator Crapo\u2019s priorities in the NDAA include:\n\nRequiring financial regulators to develop common data standards that improve transparency and accountability of financial data collected from regulated institutions through inclusion of the Financial Data Transparency Act; and\n\nPermanently authorizing the DOD SkillBridge program, which offers servicemembers in their initial stages of separation from the military to gain experience in a field of their interest. Senator Crapo has long advocated for an expansion of Transition Assistance Program (TAP) counseling to include servicemembers participating in the SkillBridge program.\n\nSenator Risch\u2019s priorities were incorporated into the NDAA as a result of his efforts. Those priorities included:\n\nPrecluding the requirement for women to register for the Selective Service;\n\nReauthorizing the Feed the Future Initiative, a public-private partnership with the University of Idaho;\n\nEnding international wildlife poaching and trafficking; and\n\nFacilitating better international cooperation against synthetic drug trafficking through the FENTANYL Results Act.\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-08T03:32:05Z"]], "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.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/crapo-risch-support-armed-forces-with-ndaa-passage"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.069854013621807, "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"}