“Pledged not to become a long-term Washington fixture, promising to finish the job and return home rather than make a career of the Senate.”
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Adversarial re-check: every cited source is real, live, and accurately quoted, and the outcome survives. Verified independently: (1) U.S. Term Limits' own July 3, 2023 press release confirms candidate Sheehy signed the term-limits pledge (three House terms / two Senate terms) -- the pledge's text commits the signer to cosponsor and vote for the amendment; (2) Congress.gov's cosponsor list for S.J.Res.1 (Sen. Ted Cruz's constitutional amendment capping senators at two terms and House members at three, introduced 01/07/2025) lists 'Sen. Sheehy, Tim [R-MT] - 01/08/2025', i.e. he cosponsored days after being sworn in, and the resolution text at govinfo/congress.gov confirms the two-term Senate cap; (3) U.S. Term Limits' 119th Congress signer list, last updated 7/10/26, still carries 'MT Sen. Tim Sheehy*' with the legend '*cosponsor', so the cosponsorship stands as of this review. The amendment has gone nowhere (referred to Senate Judiciary, no floor action), and the personal core of the promise -- serving a limited stint and returning to Montana -- cannot be tested until his first term ends in January 2031. That is a genuine, verifiable action in the promise's direction that did not land: ATTEMPTED, not FULL/PARTIAL. He was one of 19 cosponsors and did not sponsor, lead, or drive the effort, so CHAMPIONED is not supported. IGNORED is wrong (he engaged within 48 hours of taking office); ABSTAINED is wrong (no vote occurred to duck); MISALIGNED/HOSTILE is too harsh -- the July 18, 2026 Fox News interview in which he argued 'We have term limits, and we have age limits and that is the voter' is rhetoric that cuts against the pledge, but he has taken no measure against it and has not withdrawn his cosponsorship. Same-standard test: a Democrat with this identical record -- signed the pledge, cosponsored on day two, later argued voters are the real term limit, term not yet expired -- would draw the same ATTEMPTED label. REVISE rather than CONFIRM because the prior rationale attributed a direct quote to Sheehy ('one of my first actions as a candidate was to sign the Term Limits Pledge because we need more accountability and less career politicians') that I could NOT substantiate: the July 2023 U.S. Term Limits release announcing his signature contains no quotes from Sheehy at all, only from USTL president Philip Blumel. That unverified quotation is removed and replaced with the verified pledge-signature record; the outcome and confidence are unchanged. Confidence stays moderate at 0.6 because the promise's testable core is still five years out and the 2026 rhetoric points the other way.
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