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ChampionedAgriculture / Farm Safety Net

Bolster Title I statutory reference prices and maintain and improve crop insurance as his top farm bill priorities (advanced via the FARMER Act, which raises crop-insurance premium support levels).

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 87%

All four cited sources are reachable and support the CHAMPIONED outcome. Source 1 (boozman.senate.gov) confirms Chairman Boozman co-introduced the FARMER Act on May 13, 2025 to strengthen the farm safety net and increase crop-insurance premium support — the cited quote appears verbatim, documenting leadership on the exact bill named in the promise. Source 2 (agriculture.senate.gov) confirms verbatim that "Chairman John Boozman (R-AR) today released legislative text for the budget reconciliation package," establishing his authorship/leadership of the agriculture-title reconciliation text (though its visible content emphasizes SNAP and risk-management tools rather than reference prices specifically). Source 3 (fb.org) verbatim confirms the enacted OBBBA "raises statutory reference prices (price guarantees) for major covered commodities by 10-21%" and increases crop-insurance premium support 3-5 points — the delivered substance of both promise halves. Source 4 (aei.org) confirms in substance the SCO subsidy rising 65%→80%, coverage 86%→90%, and the July 4, 2025 signing, though the rating's quote is a compressed paraphrase (with ellipsis) rather than verbatim; the underlying facts are accurate and not fabricated. Taken together the sources show genuine leadership (sponsored the named FARMER Act; authored the reconciliation text that became law) beyond a single vote, and the promised substance was enacted — meeting the CHAMPIONED bar. Confidence trimmed slightly because the AEI quote is a paraphrase and Source 2 does not itself detail the reference-price/crop-insurance provisions.

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