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ChampionedLGBTQ+ rights / foster care and adoption

Fight to pass the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act, to bar discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth and same-sex couples in the foster care and adoption systems.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 93%

Verified via WebFetch of both primary sources plus corroborating web search. Source 1 (gillibrand.senate.gov "Gillibrand Leads...") is confirmed: the exact quote "I am proud to be the Senate sponsor of the John Lewis Every Child Deserves a Family Act" appears verbatim, and the page describes her as "the Senate sponsor" who is "leading the bipartisan and bicameral" bill that "would prohibit discrimination against prospective foster or adoptive parents, and children and youth in the foster care system on the basis of religion, marital status, gender identity, or sexual orientation." Source 2 (gillibrand.senate.gov "Gillibrand, House Colleagues Introduce Legislation...") is confirmed: she "introduced legislation to ban discrimination against LGBTQ+ couples looking to adopt and protect LGBTQ+ children in the foster care system." These PRIMARY sources establish real, sustained LEADERSHIP — Gillibrand is the lead Senate sponsor/author who personally introduced and leads the measure, not merely a supporter or voter — which meets the CHAMPIONED bar. The bill's substance directly matches the promise (barring discrimination against LGBTQ+ youth and same-sex couples in foster care/adoption). The bill has not been enacted (S.4629, 118th Congress, referred to Judiciary, no vote), which the rating correctly acknowledges; CHAMPIONED here rates the demonstrated leadership/effort to "fight to pass," not final enactment. The GovTrack source (Source 3) returned HTTP 403 and could not be fetched to confirm its verbatim quote, but every factual claim in it (sponsor = Gillibrand, introduced June 20, 2024, 43 cosponsors, referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, not enacted) is independently corroborated by an authoritative Congress.gov-sourced web search. Confidence is 0.93 rather than higher only because one of the three cited sources was unreachable for verbatim quote confirmation, though its substance is fully corroborated.

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