Verification upholds the CHAMPIONED rating. The Graham official press release (PRIMARY) is reachable and its cited headline appears verbatim; the page confirms Graham introduced the exact named bill banning abortion nationwide after 15 weeks with exceptions for rape, incest, and the life/physical health of the mother. CBS News (REPUTABLE_SECONDARY) is reachable and all three cited quote fragments appear verbatim, confirming both the introduction/exceptions and that the bill was unlikely to get a vote under Democratic control. The congress.gov S.4840 record returned HTTP 403 to the automated fetcher (congress.gov's standard anti-bot block, not a dead or fabricated page); its existence, exact title, Graham sponsorship, and referral-to-committee-without-a-vote status were independently corroborated via web search, and the cited quote matches the actual page title. The outcome does not overstate the evidence: the introduce half is fully documented (lead sponsor, national press conference unveiling the bill), which is active leadership rather than a passive vote (CHAMPIONED); the advance half demonstrably did not occur (referred to Judiciary, no markup, no floor vote), consistent with the rating being CHAMPIONED rather than FULL and confidence held below 0.8 to reflect a defensible PARTIAL reading of the unfulfilled advancement.