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ChampionedGovernment reform / term limits

Enact term limits for Congress and government bureaucrats, pursued via a constitutional amendment.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 82%

Both cited PRIMARY sources are reachable and both quotes appear verbatim. The 2023 Senate office release directly documents Scott personally INTRODUCING his own proposed constitutional amendment to impose term limits on members of Congress as part of his "Make Washington Work" plan (S.J.Res.1, 118th Cong.) — genuine authorship/leadership, not merely a vote, satisfying the CHAMPIONED bar. The 2019 release shows Scott announcing sponsorship of a term-limits constitutional amendment; note that page states the bill was introduced by Sen. Ted Cruz, so in that instance Scott was a cosponsor rather than sole author — but the 2023 source independently establishes his own authorship, so the leadership claim holds. CHAMPIONED (not FULL) is correct because congressional term limits have not been ENACTED: a constitutional amendment requires two-thirds of both chambers plus ratification by three-quarters of the states, and none of his resolutions advanced beyond committee. Two honest caveats lower confidence: (1) the amendment vehicle covers congressional term limits but does NOT contain a term-limits provision for "government bureaucrats" — that secondary element of the promise was rhetorical, not pursued via the amendment (confirmed absent from both sources); and (2) the rationale's phrasing that he "introduced/sponsored these amendments in 2019" slightly overstates 2019 (he cosponsored Cruz's bill there), though 2023 independently proves authorship. On the promise's explicit, dominant thrust — pursuing congressional term limits via a constitutional amendment — Scott clearly led. Rating upheld.

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