“Get tough on crime by ensuring law enforcement have the tools, funding, and legal protections they need to do their jobs and protect their communities.”
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All three cited sources are reachable, support the outcome, and contain the quoted text verbatim. (1) The mccormick.senate.gov funding release confirms verbatim "This funding delivers real results for Pennsylvanians" and documents McCormick securing $270M+ in congressionally directed spending for Pennsylvania, including his own directed police allocations — Bethlehem PD ($700K), Scranton PD ($500K), Shippensburg PD ($298K), University of Pittsburgh PD ($300K), York County Law Enforcement ($400K), and the Allegheny County Police and Fire Training Academy ($1M). These are McCormick's own directed-spending requests, i.e., affirmative leadership on the TOOLS and FUNDING prongs. (2) The cornyn.senate.gov release confirms verbatim the Back the Blue Act cosponsor list and the "creates a new federal crime for killing... a federal judge, federal law enforcement officer, or federally funded public safety officer" language — but McCormick is a COSPONSOR only (Cornyn is lead sponsor), and the bill is still pending, so the LEGAL PROTECTIONS prong is not leadership. (3) The mccormick.senate.gov nitazene release confirms verbatim "We need to take immediate action to close loopholes, crack down on traffickers" and shows McCormick as a LEAD sponsor/introducer of the Nitazene Control Act — genuine leadership on the tough-on-crime prong. Because McCormick authored/led on two prongs (self-secured police funding and lead-sponsored anti-trafficking legislation) beyond mere votes, CHAMPIONED holds. Confidence held at 0.7: the legal-protections piece is cosponsorship-only and pending, the tough-on-crime lead is drug-policy-focused rather than squarely "law enforcement tools/funding/protections," and his tenure is short (since Jan 2025). Some rationale items (HALT Fentanyl Act, Laken Riley Act) are uncited context, not load-bearing to the determination.
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