{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-opposing-national-defense-authorization-act/", "Senator Murray Statement on Opposing National Defense Authorization Act", "2025-10-09", "2025", "2025-10", "Democrat", "Senate", "WA", "Patty Murray", "M001111", "www.murray.senate.gov", "murray", "https://www.murray.senate.gov/category/press-releases/", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, voted against final passage of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026 (NDAA), and issued the following statement:\n\n\u201cI strongly support our troops\u2014I have for my entire career. As the daughter of a WWII veteran, I take the mission of our military very seriously, and I will always do everything I can to keep our troops safe.\n\n\u201cHowever, in a moment when this President suggests that Democratic led cities should be used as \u2018training grounds\u2019 for the military and that there\u2019s a \u2018war from within,\u2019 I simply don\u2019t see how I can vote for this bill. Portland and Chicago are not \u2018war zones\u2019 that require military intervention. The President is lying about chaos on our streets to deploy the military against our own citizens.\n\n\u201cAt the same time, the least qualified Secretary of Defense in our history is wrongly firing senior women military leaders and denigrating the countless women servicemembers who put their lives on the line for our country, demonstrating nothing short of outright hostility toward women soldiers\u2014it\u2019s a disgrace.\n\n\u201cThe way this President is trying to weaponize and politicize our military should outrage every American. America is not a country where the military takes aim at the very people our soldiers swear an oath to protect\u2014and it never should be. It\u2019s on every one of us to stand up for this democracy\u2014I cannot and will not support the passage of this defense bill right now. Moreover, it is absurd for Republican Leadership to press ahead with floor votes on this year\u2019s defense policy bill while they continue to refuse to meet with Democrats to hammer out a deal to actually pay our troops, reopen government, and protect health care.\u201d\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T19:32:54Z"]], "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.murray.senate.gov/senator-murray-statement-on-opposing-national-defense-authorization-act/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.227824181318283, "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"}