{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases/icymi-dpaa-director-kelly-mckeague-expresses-support-for-the-bring-our-heroes-home-act", "ICYMI: DPAA Director Kelly McKeague expresses support for the Bring Our Heroes Home Act", "2026-08-21", "2026", "2026-08", "Republican", "Senate", "ID", "Mike Crapo", "C000880", "www.crapo.senate.gov", "crapo", "https://www.crapo.senate.gov/media/newsreleases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C.--Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Director Kelly McKeague publicly expressed strong support for U.S. Senators Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and Jeanne Shaheen\u2019s (D-New Hampshire) bipartisan legislation, the Bring Our Heroes Home Act, during the 2026 Vietnam Annual Government Briefings.\n\nDirector McKeague highlighted the systemic delays caused by government bureaucracy and the unnecessary over-classification of decades-old records, emphasizing the critical need for the Senators\u2019 bill to streamline the declassification process:\n\nClick the photo above or here to watch Director McKeague\u2019s remarks.\n\nDirector McKeague urged families to continue pushing Congress to pass the measure, noting that the DPAA has \"no objections\" to the legislation.\n\n\"For decades, government bureaucracy and red tape have stood in the way of providing long-overdue answers to thousands of families who have sacrificed so much,\u201d said Crapo. \u201cDirector McKeague\u2019s comments reaffirm why the Bring Our Heroes Home Act is urgently needed, and I will continue working alongside Senator Shaheen to get this bipartisan bill signed into law.\"\n\n\u201cMilitary families often wait years, sometimes even decades, to access information about their lost loved ones who made the ultimate sacrifice for our country,\u201d said Senator Shaheen. \u201cI\u2019m pleased to hear Director McKeague\u2019s support for our bipartisan legislation to ensure the records of service members are properly collected and shared, removing unnecessary bureaucracy and enabling our lost soldiers\u2019 loved ones to get the closure they need to heal.\u201d\n\nBackground:\n\nIntroduced by Senator Crapo and Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-New Hampshire), S. 3226, the Bring Our Heroes Home Act, recently advanced out of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee with unanimous, bipartisan support.\n\nAccording to the DPAA, more than 80,000 Americans--including 358 Idahoans--remain unaccounted for from World War II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War and other conflicts.\n\nSpecifically, S. 3226 would:\n\nEstablish the Missing Armed Forces and Civilian Personnel Records Collection at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to consolidate all government records related to missing personnel;\n\nDirect all federal agencies to transfer relevant records to NARA; and\n\nCreate an independent Missing Armed Forces and Civilian Personnel Records Review Board to facilitate public disclosure and review agency decisions to withhold or postpone declassification.\n\n###", 1, "2026-08-22T05:24:59Z", "2026-08-22T05:26:16Z"]], "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/icymi-dpaa-director-kelly-mckeague-expresses-support-for-the-bring-our-heroes-home-act"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7661730051040649, "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"}