All three cited facts are verified. The two primary Senate press releases fetched cleanly: the Cruz office release (dated 05.28.2025) confirms Cruz reintroduced/led the Protect LNG Act and contains verbatim "Ensures that a federal court cannot vacate previously authorized permits for Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) facilities"; the Scott office release contains verbatim "Senator Tim Scott (R-S.C.) joined Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) in reintroducing the Protect LNG Act" plus the same core-provision quote. The congress.gov S.1901 page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetching (bot-blocking, not a dead/nonexistent page), but is corroborated by congress.gov's own search snippet, which confirms the title "Protect LNG Act of 2025," that the bill "was introduced by Mr. Cruz (for himself and Mr. Cornyn)" on May 22, 2025, and that it was "read twice and referred to the Committee" (Energy and Natural Resources). That establishes Cruz as the SPONSOR OF RECORD of his own bill — real authorship/leadership beyond a mere vote or co-sponsorship — which satisfies the leadership bar for CHAMPIONED. The rating does not overstate: CHAMPIONED denotes active leadership of the effort short of the promised end-state, and the release/caveat correctly acknowledge the bill has NOT been enacted (still in committee). Confidence held at 0.7 because the promised outcome (enactment into law) remains pending in an ongoing Congress; the rating reflects leadership of the bill, not a completed enactment.