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Cramer committed to passing the PEACE Act to prohibit federal education funding from being used to promote Critical Race Theory and 'divisive concepts.'

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

Verified as ATTEMPTED. The Cramer Senate press release (PRIMARY) fetched successfully and confirms the promise's substance verbatim: dated July 26, 2023, describing the PEACE Act (Protect Equality and Civics Education Act) to bar federal funds from promoting divisive concepts / Critical Race Theory under the Education Department's American History and Civics Education program, with the cited Cramer quote present word-for-word. Cramer co-introduced/cosponsored the 2023 bill (S.2468, 118th Congress; Rubio lead sponsor), independently corroborated by the Rubio primary press release. That bill died without ever receiving a committee or floor vote — GovTrack's page text (surfaced via web search since GovTrack 403-blocks automated fetches) states it was "introduced on July 25, 2023 ... but it did not receive a vote." The reintroduced PEACE Act of 2025 (S.227, 119th Congress) was read twice and referred to the Senate HELP committee on Jan 23, 2025 — GovTrack's "first stage of the legislative process" — and has not passed. This fits ATTEMPTED: Cramer took the available legislative action (co-sponsorship of a bill he committed to passing) but the bill never passed and never even got a vote, so no part of the "passing" goal was achieved (not PARTIAL/FULL). He was a cosponsor, not the lead author, so not CHAMPIONED — the rating correctly declined leadership. Not UNRATABLE: the outcome is definitively determined (bill died without a vote) and the reintroduced version remains stalled in committee. One caveat: the rationale's claim that Cramer also cosponsored S.227 is unconfirmed by available sources (the 2025 version's sponsor is Risch, cosponsors Crapo/Sheehy/Lummis, with no confirmation Cramer joined), but this detail is not load-bearing — the ATTEMPTED outcome rests on the definitively-failed 118th Congress bill Cramer demonstrably co-introduced.

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