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ChampionedAbortion / reproductive rights

Work with colleagues to bring the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act (to enshrine Roe v. Wade protections) to the Senate floor as soon as possible.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Both cited PRIMARY sources are reachable and support the CHAMPIONED outcome for this specific promise (to "work with colleagues to bring the Reproductive Freedom for Women Act to the Senate floor as soon as possible"). Senate Roll Call Vote 211 (July 10, 2024) confirms the RFWA (S.4554) reached the floor as a cloture vote on the Motion to Proceed and was rejected 49-44 (60 needed) — i.e., blocked by filibuster, a failure within normal Senate process and outside Schumer's control. The quoted vote text ("On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed... Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected," "YEAs 49, NAYs 44, Not Voting 7") matches the source verbatim. The Senate Democratic Leadership page documents Schumer's floor remarks as Majority Leader "ahead of today's vote on advancing" the bill; both cited quotes ("I want to thank Senator Murray... for leading this bill" and "Today's vote will not be the end of the struggle to secure reproductive freedoms, but it is an important step forward") appear verbatim. On the leadership test: the promised action — bringing the bill to the floor — is a power only the Majority Leader wields, and Schumer both scheduled the floor vote and delivered floor remarks to advance it, which is leadership of the exact promised action rather than a lone vote among 49. Honest caveats: the bill's sponsor/author is Sen. Murray (Schumer credits her, not himself), and a few finer procedural claims in the original rationale (calendar placement, who specifically filed cloture, "repeated" speeches, a "series" of votes) are not literally quoted in these two sources; but the core basis for CHAMPIONED — a Majority Leader driving the floor action he promised — is directly documented. CHAMPIONED upheld.

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