“Pass the U.S. Citizenship Act to create a pathway to citizenship for 11 million undocumented immigrants.”
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Both cited sources were reached and verified, and both support the ATTEMPTED outcome for THIS promise (pass the U.S. Citizenship Act creating a pathway to citizenship for ~11M undocumented immigrants). PRIMARY (Congress.gov H.R. 1177 introduced text) confirms Schiff was an ORIGINAL COSPONSOR: the page-1 introducing/cosponsor list reads "...Mr. MCNERNEY, Mr. SCHIFF, Ms. MCCOLLUM..." (PDF text-extraction shows small-caps spacing and a line-break hyphen but the placement of Schiff between McNerney and McCollum is unambiguous), and the bill was introduced by "Ms. SANCHEZ (for herself...)" with the stated purpose "To provide an earned path to citizenship." This confirms genuine effort AND that Schiff was one of ~140 cosponsors, NOT the author/leader — so CHAMPIONED is correctly rejected (lead sponsor Sanchez in the House, Menendez in the Senate). REPUTABLE_SECONDARY (Wikipedia) confirms the bill failed: quote "It died with the ending of the 117th Congress." is present, no floor vote occurred in either chamber, and it would have created a pathway for ~11 million. Nothing was enacted, so FULL/PARTIAL are correctly rejected. Cosponsoring and advocating for a bill that then died in committee is a genuine-but-failed effort = ATTEMPTED. The outcome does not overstate the evidence.
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