{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-presses-pentagon-on-transgender-housing-incident-at-missouri-military-barracks-military-readiness-is-suffering-because-of-your-progressive-social-agenda/", "Hawley Presses Pentagon on Transgender Housing Incident at Missouri Military Barracks: \u2018Military readiness is suffering because of your progressive social agenda\u2019", "2024-12-11", "2024", "2024-12", "Republican", "Senate", "MO", "Josh Hawley", "H001089", "www.hawley.senate.gov", "hawley", "https://www.hawley.senate.gov/press-releases/page/", "scraper", "Today Senator Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) sent a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin following a whistleblower report that a man is living in the women\u2019s barracks at Fort Leonard Wood. According to the allegations, a unit at the Fort processed the paperwork of a biological male, reregistered him as a female, and placed him in the female barracks.\n\n\u201cErasing the distinction between men and women hurts military readiness and places progressive gender experimentation ahead of warfighting,\u201d the Senator wrote.\n\nSenator Hawley called on Secretary Austin to immediately ensure that biological men and women are housed separately in the appropriate barracks.\n\n\u201cMilitary readiness is suffering because of your progressive social agenda,\u201d he concluded.\n\nRead the full letter here or below.\n\nHonorable Lloyd J. Austin III\n\nSecretary of Defense\n\nU.S. Department of Defense\n\n1000 Defense Pentagon\n\nWashington, D.C. 20301-1000\n\nSecretary Austin,\n\nMy office has received a whistleblower report claiming that a biological male has been living in the women\u2019s barracks at Fort Leonard Wood in my state of Missouri. Department of Defense rules promulgated during your tenure permit men to reside in women\u2019s barracks. This is totally unacceptable.", 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.hawley.senate.gov/hawley-presses-pentagon-on-transgender-housing-incident-at-missouri-military-barracks-military-readiness-is-suffering-because-of-your-progressive-social-agenda/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.9184801019728184, "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"}