“Called for passage of his Junk Fee Prevention Act to eliminate hidden and excessive consumer fees and require full up-front pricing across ticketing, hotels, airlines and other services.”
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All three cited PRIMARY sources (official Blumenthal Senate office releases) load, support the outcome, and contain the quoted text verbatim. (1) The 11.26.2024 PSI majority staff report identifies Blumenthal as CHAIR of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations leading the airline junk-fee probe; the quote appears exactly. (2) The 12.04.2024 opening statement shows Blumenthal presiding over/chairing the hearing with five airline CEOs ("This Hearing of the Subcommittee on Investigations will come to order... I will turn it to Senator Marshall"); the quote appears verbatim. (3) The 12.04.2025 release shows Blumenthal introducing/sponsoring the bicameral Junk Fee Prevention Act (his bill) requiring full up-front pricing across ticketing, hotels, airlines and other services and empowering the FTC/FCC; the quoted fragments appear verbatim (the rating's ellipsis legitimately elides one middle sentence present in the source). This is genuine LEADERSHIP evidence — authoring/introducing the bill, opening an investigation, releasing a report, and chairing a hearing — well beyond a single vote or statement of support, satisfying the CHAMPIONED bar. The bill is not enacted, but the promise was to advocate for/push his bill, which he demonstrably led; CHAMPIONED is not an overstatement. All sources post-date the 2023-06-15 promise and document THIS promise's outcome.
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