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Stop accepting campaign contributions from corporate political action committees (PACs).

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Fully KeptFact-checker reviewConfidence: 90%

The promise is a personal campaign-conduct commitment: stop accepting corporate PAC contributions. All three cited sources were fetched and verified. The Corvallis Advocate opens "Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley has stopped taking campaign contributions from corporate political action committees" and carries the exact Merkley quote about symbolically taking this step to restore democracy, plus the ~$1.2M business-PAC figure from his 2014 cycle. OPB's headline "Oregon Sen. Jeff Merkley Has Stopped Taking Corporate PAC Cash" is confirmed verbatim (the cited text is the headline). Roll Call (2021) independently documents durable adherence: Merkley is named among eight lawmakers who "reported taking no contributions from political committees of any kind" that year — the exact quoted sentence appears verbatim. This confirms he actually carried out (and exceeded) the pledge across later cycles rather than merely promising it. FULL rather than CHAMPIONED because the promise is scoped to his own fundraising conduct — carrying it out IS the complete accomplishment, not a collective or legislative effort he had to lead others to enact. All quotes are genuine, all sources reachable, and each documents the exact outcome for this promise.

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