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ChampionedAgriculture / Farm Bill

Fetterman committed to fighting for a Farm Bill that supports small farmers and rural communities and helps Pennsylvania's agricultural sector.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 83%

Both cited PRIMARY sources (Fetterman's own Senate office) are reachable and support the outcome. The May 7, 2024 Farm Bill wins page carries the quoted line verbatim and documents leadership beyond voting: Fetterman authored the Supporting Urban and Innovative Farming Act, led the Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act, and secured six PA-relevant provisions in the Senate Agriculture Committee Farm Bill framework (SNAP, specialty-crop/mushroom insurance, rural broadband, urban/young-farmer grants, Chesapeake Bay conservation, foreign-farmland reporting). The June 5, 2023 mushroom-farmers page confirms he co-introduced the Protecting Mushroom Farmers Act with Casey and a bipartisan House group; its quote is substantively present with only a trivial It is/It's contraction difference, not a fabrication. This is authored/introduced/led legislative activity, which clears the CHAMPIONED bar. Confidence is held below high because no comprehensive Farm Bill was enacted (provisions remained in a framework; the mushroom bill was reintroduced in 2025), but the promise was to fight for it, and non-passage is a collective outcome outside his control.

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