“Committed to work to ensure veterans and their families receive the benefits they were promised.”
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This is an effort/commitment promise ("committed to work to ensure veterans and their families receive the benefits they were promised"), and the primary record shows consistent, concrete work with enacted results. Verified: (1) Hyde-Smith voted Yea on final passage of the Honoring our PACT Act (Senate Roll Call 280, 86-11-3, Motion Agreed to), the major expansion of VA benefits for toxin-exposed veterans that became law; (2) she is an original cosponsor of the Major Richard Star Act to give combat-injured retirees full DoD retirement plus VA disability — precisely "benefits they were promised" — confirmed verbatim on her Senate site; (3) she cosponsored the Military Widow's Tax Elimination Act (widow's-tax repeal, enacted via NDAA FY2020), corroborated on her veterans page. Rated FULL rather than CHAMPIONED because on the flagship measures she acted as cosponsor/voter rather than the singular author or driving leader, so leadership evidence is insufficient for CHAMPIONED; but she plainly did the committed work with tangible, on-point enacted outcomes.
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