{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-votes-no-on-bloated-military-budget-bill", "Wyden Votes No on Bloated Military Budget Bill", "2024-12-18", "2024", "2024-12", "Democrat", "Senate", "OR", "Ron Wyden", "W000779", "www.wyden.senate.gov", "wyden", "https://www.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2014 U.S. Senator Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued the following statement after voting against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA):\n\n\u201cThis bill gives our military servicemembers a needed raise. And I support efforts to bolster our democratic allies and partners in Israel, Taiwan, and Ukraine.\n\n\u201cBut I cannot greenlight wasteful defense spending that will do more harm than good.\n\n\u201cWhile the Pentagon continues failing audits, this bill makes no effort at all to hold the Department of Defense fiscally accountable. Our government shouldn\u2019t reward the Pentagon with more taxpayer dollars when the department can\u2019t prove it is managing that money responsibly.\n\n\u201cThis bill also unwisely shuts down important efforts to protect our servicemembers from violent extremism.\n\n\u201cAnd while this bill includes the Intelligence Authorization Act, it lacks key reforms that were in the version of the Intelligence Authorization Act passed by the Senate Intelligence Committee, including protections against political purging of intelligence agencies, protections for whistleblowers, and guardrails against abusive surveillance.\n\n\u201cFor these reasons, among many other flaws in this bill, I voted \u2018no.\u2019\n\n\u201cThis bill does include an important provision I authored with Senator Schmitt to study cybersecurity threats to the air traffic control system. I am glad that provision passed, and I will look forward to seeing the results of this important analysis.\u201d\n\n###", 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.wyden.senate.gov/news/press-releases/wyden-votes-no-on-bloated-military-budget-bill"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.7286541406065226, "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"}