“Alsobrooks will be a vocal advocate to pass a permanent Child Tax Credit.”
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Adversarial re-check. (1) Source integrity: both prior sources are REAL and live. I independently re-fetched the GPO/govinfo BILLSTATUS bulk-data XML for S.1393 (119th Congress, American Family Act) and it confirms Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) as sponsor, introduction 2025-04-09, Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) as an ORIGINAL cosponsor with sponsorship date 2025-04-09, and latest action still 'Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance' (April 9, 2025) - i.e. no further action in the ~15 months since. I also re-fetched Bennet's Senate press release, which lists Alsobrooks first in the cosponsor roster and describes the bill as permanently expanding the Child Tax Credit. Neither source is invented or misquoted. (2) Promise origin verified: her campaign site (angelaalsobrooks.com/priority/the-economy) contains the promise nearly verbatim - she 'would be a vocal advocate to pass a permanent Child Tax Credit, which lifted millions of children out of poverty' - so the promise text is authentic and not a paraphrase drift. (3) Adversarial test on the outcome: I checked her own Senate newsroom three ways (site search for 'child tax credit', site search for 'American Family Act', and the press-release index through July 2026) and found ZERO press releases, statements, or floor remarks on the Child Tax Credit in roughly 18 months in office. That is genuinely unfavorable to the 'vocal advocate' element and rules out CHAMPIONED: she did not lead, sponsor, or drive the effort - Bennet did, and she is one of ~44 Democratic cosponsors who joined on introduction day. But it does not support IGNORED either: original cosponsorship of the permanent-CTC vehicle on the day it was introduced is a real, affirmative, documented act, not silence. (4) Same-standard check: a Republican senator who promised to be a 'vocal advocate' for a policy, then signed on as an original cosponsor of the leading bill on that policy which died in committee, with no speeches of their own, would get ATTEMPTED under this rubric - not CHAMPIONED (no leadership) and not IGNORED (real action taken). The prior rating applied that standard correctly; no partisan leniency or harshness detected. (5) Confidence held at 0.7, not raised: congress.gov and GovTrack return 403 to direct fetches and general web search was unavailable this session, so an exhaustive sweep of Congressional Record floor statements and committee remarks could not be completed. The absence of vocal advocacy is evidenced by her own newsroom but is not exhaustively proven. Rating stands.
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