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PartialGovernment Reform

Shake up Washington by enacting congressional term limits, making it easier to fire underperforming federal bureaucrats, moving key agencies such as the Department of Energy outside Washington, and banning members of Congress from insider trading, lobbying, or steering funding to family members.

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PartialFact-checker reviewConfidence: 80%

This is a four-part "Shake up Washington" promise. In his first Senate term (took office Jan 2025), McCormick took concrete—often leading—legislative action on most, but not all, components, and none has been enacted. (1) Congressional term limits: he is the PRIMARY SPONSOR of a joint resolution (introduced April 10, 2025) proposing a constitutional amendment capping service at two 6-year Senate / six 2-year House terms. (2) Moving key agencies out of Washington: he co-introduced S.2044, the Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management Relocation Act of 2025 (with Sen. Fetterman, June 2025), to relocate the DOE office's ~750-person staff to Pittsburgh—directly matching the promise's Department of Energy example. (3) Banning members of Congress from insider trading: he is lead co-sponsor with Sen. Gillibrand of the Prediction Market Act, which bars members of Congress and senior executive-branch officials from trading on prediction markets / insider information. However, two elements lack any sponsored legislation in his record: making it easier to fire underperforming federal bureaucrats (civil-service reform) exists only as a stated position, and the lobbying-ban and "steering funding to family members" pieces have no bill he authored or cosponsored that could be found. So he genuinely delivered and led on part of the promise while the whole remains incomplete and all measures are still pending—hence PARTIAL rather than FULL, CHAMPIONED (he did not lead the entire bundle), or ATTEMPTED (he did more than merely try on several parts).

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