{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-in-the-daily-caller-the-dangerous-biden-harris-plan-to-leave-our-veterans-behind/", "ICYMI: Tuberville in the Daily Caller: The Dangerous Biden-Harris Plan to Leave Our Veterans Behind", "2024-10-29", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AL", "Tommy Tuberville", "T000278", "www.tuberville.senate.gov", "tuberville", "https://www.tuberville.senate.gov/press-releases/", "scraper", "\u201cAs one VA provider pointed out, this delay in critical healthcare could put us on the path to a \u2018mass casualty event.\u2019\u201d\n\nWASHINGTON \u2013 Today, U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) penned an op-ed in the Daily Caller about how the Biden-Harris administration is limiting community care access for veterans. Community care is essential to veterans across the country, specifically those in rural areas. In the piece, Senator Tuberville calls for slashing the bureaucratic red tape keeping veterans from receiving the pivotal care they deserve and emphasizes the need to change course before it is too late.\n\nRead excerpts from the piece below or here.\n\n\u201cOver the last four years, the Biden-Harris administration has made it clear its priorities lie anywhere but with America\u2019s military service members.\n\nIt was apparent in the disastrous Afghanistan withdrawal that left 13 service members dead. It was obvious when the Department of Defense forced extreme DEI requirements on our troops and discharged service members who had legitimate concerns about taking the COVID-19 vaccine.\n\nWe hear it time and again with the White House\u2019s rhetoric that now has us teetering on the brink of another World War \u2014 an event which would drag our sons and daughters into more foreign wars on behalf of interests that are not our own.\n\nWhich is why it comes as no surprise that the Biden-Harris administration is severely limiting veterans\u2019 access to timely care. Access to community care is an essential health care option that can meet the various needs and circumstances for our veterans \u2014 especially those living in rural areas.\n\nThe Community Care Network allows veterans to seek care from a provider who may be closer to the veteran in proximity than the nearest Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) facility, or who may have a shorter wait time than a comparable provider in the VA. It\u2019s something that the brave men and women who have served our country need more access to, not less.\u201d\n\nSenator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans\u2019 Affairs, and HELP Committees.\n\n###", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"]], "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.tuberville.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/icymi-tuberville-in-the-daily-caller-the-dangerous-biden-harris-plan-to-leave-our-veterans-behind/"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7883640937507153, "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"}