{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=670C3F53-8178-468B-ABCC-F70260BAAFFA", "STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON MEETING WITH BALTIC DELEGATION", "2016-12-08", "2016", "2016-12", "Republican", "House", "AZ", "John McCain", "M000303", "www.mccain.senate.gov", null, null, "legacy", "Washington, D.C. \u00ad\u2013 U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement on meeting with a delegation of parliamentarians and ambassadors from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania today:\r\n\u201cToday my colleagues and I on the Senate Armed Services Committee had a productive and substantive meeting with a delegation of parliamentarians and ambassadors from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. We conveyed our abiding bipartisan commitment to the NATO alliance, to our obligations under the North Atlantic Treaty, and to the defense of our Baltic allies against Russian aggression. I am pleased that today the Senate will vote on final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes $3.4 billion for the European Deterrence Initiative, representing a four-fold increase from last fiscal year. This effort reinforces America's dedication to a strong transatlantic relationship and complements NATO's Enhanced Forward Presence initiative to move multinational battalions into each of the Baltic states and Poland. I look forward to visiting the Baltic states later this month to emphasize the commitment of Congress as a coequal branch of government to upholding our alliance commitments and strengthening security cooperation.\u201d\r\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z", "2026-03-30T12:14:52Z"]], "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.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=670C3F53-8178-468B-ABCC-F70260BAAFFA"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.5646647661924362, "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"}