“Biden strongly supports Senator Patty Murray and Congresswoman DeLauro's Paycheck Fairness Act, which codifies and expands critical Obama-Biden protections for workers' paychecks.”
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Outcome CHAMPIONED confirmed on independent re-check; two source/detail errors in the prior rating corrected. As President, Biden actively led this effort well beyond an endorsement: (1) his administration issued a formal Statement of Administration Policy dated April 13, 2021 that 'strongly supports House passage of H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act' (verbatim, source live); the House then passed H.R. 7 (217-210, April 2021). (2) He repeatedly called for its passage as a stated priority - e.g., the March 13, 2023 White House Equal Pay readout states 'he continues to call for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act...' - and advanced the same substance through executive action (OPM final rule and federal-contractor rules barring use of salary history, per the Jan 29, 2024 White House pay-equity fact sheet). The Act did not become law because Senate Republicans blocked cloture 49-50 on June 8, 2021 (short of 60), a failure outside the President's direct control, so it is not FULL; but he clearly drove the effort rather than merely supporting it, so CHAMPIONED (+0.75) is correct. Applying the same standard to either party (executive issues formal support, chamber passes, other chamber filibusters, executive keeps pushing and acts administratively) yields the same label. CORRECTIONS to prior rating: (a) the 'continues to call for passage' quote was misattributed to the Jan 29, 2024 Lilly Ledbetter fact sheet - it actually appears in the March 13, 2023 Equal Pay readout (verified); (b) the cloture failure was June 8, 2021, not June 10.
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