“Committed to pass bipartisan legislation with Senator Lisa Murkowski to reduce hunger among military families by improving access to nutrition assistance.”
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Independently verified. Duckworth is the formal lead SPONSOR of the Military Family Nutrition Access Act of 2023 (S.497, 118th Congress), which she reintroduced with the named bipartisan partner Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) on Feb 16, 2023 — matching the promise exactly. Her office's press release states she and Murkowski 'led more than a dozen of their Senate colleagues today in reintroducing bipartisan legislation' to exclude Basic Allowance for Housing from income when determining SNAP eligibility for food-insecure military families. Congress.gov/GovTrack confirm S.497's status: 'Read twice and referred to the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry'; it never received a vote and died at the end of the 118th Congress, and the BAH/SNAP exclusion was not enacted via the Farm Bill or any other vehicle. She actively LED and drove the effort but did not deliver enactment, so CHAMPIONED (not FULL/PARTIAL, which would require some enactment; and above ATTEMPTED, which is a mere supporting vote). Nonpartisan check: a member of either party with this record — lead sponsor of a bipartisan bill that dies in committee without a vote — would receive CHAMPIONED. All three cited sources are real and live (Congress.gov returns 403 to automated fetch tools but the page and its content are confirmed via search and GovTrack).
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