“Committed to keep fighting in Congress until the federal government ensures equal voting rights, equal pay, and protection against discrimination regardless of race, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or age.”
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Independent re-check: all four cited sources are real, live, and support the rating; no invented or misquoted citations were found. (1) Senate Roll Call 117-1-227 (June 8, 2021) is cloture on the motion to proceed to H.R. 7, the Paycheck Fairness Act; rejected 49-50; Kaine voted Yea - verified on senate.gov. (2) Senate Roll Call 117-1-459 (Nov. 3, 2021) is cloture on S.4, the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act; rejected 50-49 (60 needed); Kaine voted Yea - verified. (3) Senate Roll Call 117-2-9 (Jan. 19, 2022) is cloture on the motion to concur in the House amendment to H.R. 5746 - the NASA Enhanced Use Leasing Extension Act shell used as the vehicle for the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act; rejected 49-51; Kaine voted Yea - verified (the prior rating's quote matches the page's measure title, so it is not a misquote). (4) Additionally verified Senate Roll Call 117-2-10 (Jan. 19, 2022), 'Shall the Decision of the Chair stand as the Judgment of the Senate' - the Chair was sustained 52-48 and Kaine voted Nay, i.e. he voted to overturn the Chair and create the talking-filibuster carve-out that would have let the voting-rights bill pass. That is action well beyond a single supporting vote. (5) Kaine's official Senate civil-rights page is the verbatim source of the promise text ('he'll keep fighting in Congress until the federal government ensures equal voting rights, equal pay, and protection against discrimination no matter one's race, sex, nation of origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, or age') and states the Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act is 'legislation he introduced' and that he 'cosponsored the Paycheck Fairness Act.' Neutrality check: introducing/cosponsoring the governing bills, repeated affirmative cloture votes, and an affirmative vote to change Senate rules to enable passage would earn CHAMPIONED for a member of either party under the same standard. Not FULL or PARTIAL because none of the three measures became law and the federal protections were not enacted; not merely ATTEMPTED because he led rather than only voted. CHAMPIONED stands.
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