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The legislation authorizes a pay raise for every service member and now advances to the Senate.\n\n\"Our troops deserve a raise and our adversaries deserve a reason to think twice. This bill delivers on both,\" said Congresswoman Cammack. \"I fought to make sure it delivers accountability too. We cannot just throw money at the Pentagon. My amendments force answers to hard questions about who is in our supply chains, whether we're ready for tomorrow's threats, and where American taxpayer dollars are going.\"\n\nTogether, Rep. Cammack's ten adopted amendments strengthen military readiness, reduce dependence on foreign adversaries, improve care for military families, accelerate the adoption of emerging technologies, and strengthen America's disaster response capabilities.\n\nCongresswoman Cammack's Ten Adopted Amendments\n\nCountering fentanyl and precursor chemicals. Requires the Department of War to expand coordination with the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Justice to target fentanyl and precursor chemicals. Requires a report to Congress identifying gaps in detection, monitoring, and interdiction efforts.\n\nCombating foreign malign influence. Requires the Department of War to develop a strategy for identifying, assessing, and countering foreign malign influence activities in the cognitive warfare domain, including disinformation, propaganda, psychological operations, and other influence activities conducted by foreign adversaries.\n\nReducing reliance on Chinese-sourced defense materials. Requires the Comptroller General to assess the Department of War's reliance on Chinese-sourced materials used in munitions, microelectronics, and energy storage systems and recommend alternative sourcing strategies.\n\nStrengthening partnerships with research universities. Requires the Department of War to prioritize partnerships with institutions of higher education conducting research in hypersonics, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence while expanding reporting to Congress on those partnerships.\n\nSecuring military medical supply chains. Requires the Secretary of War to assess vulnerabilities in military medical supply chains, including reliance on Chinese sources for active pharmaceutical ingredients and medical devices, and report the findings to Congress within 180 days.\n\nAssessing threats from foreign-controlled digital platforms. Requires the Secretary of War to assess the risks posed by foreign adversary-controlled digital platforms to operational security, force protection, military personnel, and military installations, including threats related to data collection, cognitive warfare, foreign influence operations, and propaganda.\n\nAccelerating artificial intelligence adoption. Requires the Department of War, in coordination with the Department of Commerce, to develop a strategy for adopting, fielding, integrating, and scaling artificial intelligence across the military and the defense industrial base.\n\nProtecting military mothers during PCS moves. Requires the Department of War to establish procedures ensuring continuity of care for pregnant and postpartum service members and military spouses during permanent change of station moves, including timely transfers of medical records and assignment of receiving providers.\n\nAuditing Chinese Communist Party exposure in defense contracting. Requires the Comptroller General to audit the participation of entities owned, controlled by, affiliated with, or influenced by the Chinese Communist Party in Department of War contracts and supply chains, identifying risks to military readiness and national security.\n\nStrengthening National Guard disaster readiness. Requires the Department of War, in consultation with FEMA, to submit an annual report identify","url":"https://cammack.house.gov/media/press-releases/congresswoman-kat-cammack-secures-ten-amendments-house-passed-national-defense","published_at":"2026-07-23","ai_topics":["national_security","research","innovation"],"ai_stance":"mixed","ai_summary":"Cammack touts NDAA amendments accelerating military AI adoption and prioritizing university AI research partnerships while requiring reporting to Congress.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["98aac415e61b418b","c3a830c9118e3ee4"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"98aac415e61b418b","method":"number"},{"bill_id":"c3a830c9118e3ee4","method":"title"}],"classifier":null},{"id":"20d379a829e69180","politician_id":"R000614","type":"press_release","content":"Washington, D.C. – Today, Congressman Chip Roy (TX-21) issued the following statement after voting against the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2027 (H.R. 8800).\n\n\"While this year's National Defense Authorization Act takes some important steps toward restoring the Pentagon's focus on its core mission of defending the United States, there is still significant work to be done. I cannot support authorizing approximately $1.15 trillion in discretionary national defense spending—a staggering $251.1 billion, or 28%, increase over the previous year's authorization—without stronger accountability for how those taxpayer dollars will be spent.\n\nI was pleased that the House included several important conservative reforms in the final bill, including prohibiting taxpayer funding for transgender surgeries, making it easier for qualified servicemembers and Department of War personnel to carry firearms on military installations, and adopting my amendment to eliminate an unproven AI voice-analysis pilot that determines which servicemembers should face drug testing and potential discipline based on government behavioral surveillance. These are meaningful improvements that will better protect our servicemembers and refocus the military on its core mission.\n\nUnfortunately, those important reforms are outweighed by the bill's continued excessive spending and misplaced priorities, as the legislation continues to prioritize costly green energy initiatives by allowing the Department of War to purchase more expensive sustainable aviation fuel at taxpayer expense instead of focusing resources on military readiness and combat capability. The bill also falls short in promoting meaningful congressional accountability for ongoing military engagements by relying on a report on the costs of operations involving Iran rather than ensuring Congress fully debates the objectives, scope, and long-term fiscal implications of those operations.","url":"https://roy.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-roy-votes-against-bloated-115-trillion-ndaa","published_at":"2026-07-22","ai_topics":["privacy","safety","national_security"],"ai_stance":"support","ai_summary":"Touts his adopted amendment eliminating an unproven AI voice-analysis pilot that subjects servicemembers to government behavioral surveillance for drug-testing decisions.","ai_processed":true,"bill_ids":["98aac415e61b418b"],"ai_relevance_score":null,"bill_refs":[{"bill_id":"98aac415e61b418b","method":"number"}],"classifier":null}],"provenance":{"commit":"38624a3af16ec6b3fff9b27c7d1d9f2cb7fe9152","generated_at":"2026-09-11T15:06:57.105Z","schema_version":2,"manifest":"https://whovotedwhy.com/data/index.json"}}