All five sources cited by the prior rating are REAL and were independently re-fetched and confirmed verbatim, so none are discarded. The promise text itself is verified word-for-word on fetterman.senate.gov/about/: 'Serving on the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, including as Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Border Management, Federal Workforce, and Regulatory Affairs, Senator Fetterman will prioritize keeping Americans safe, with a focus on border security, cybersecurity, and robust oversight of the Department of Homeland Security.' This is a BUNDLED three-prong commitment, and the record differs sharply by prong. PRONG 1 - BORDER SECURITY: strong, genuinely championed. Senate.gov roll call 119-1 #7 confirms S.5 (Laken Riley Act) passed 64-35 on Jan 20, 2025 with Fetterman Yea; he was a cosponsor and attended the White House signing (his Jan 29, 2025 release). Senate.gov roll call 118-2 #182 confirms he voted Yea on cloture for S.4361, the border security supplemental (rejected 43-50). NOTE a factual error in the prior rationale: that vote was May 23, 2024, not June 3, 2024 - the date on senate.gov matches his own May 23, 2024 statement. PRONG 2 - CYBERSECURITY: thin. The Enhanced Cybersecurity for SNAP Act is real (S.3949, introduced Feb 26, 2026) but the prior rating overstated his role: Wyden is the lead sponsor, with Fetterman and Cassidy as co-leads. It is unenacted, and it addresses USDA SNAP/EBT benefit-theft cybersecurity rather than DHS or homeland cybersecurity. One unenacted co-led bill is modest engagement, not leadership of the prong. PRONG 3 - ROBUST OVERSIGHT: this is where the prior rating was too lenient, and it is the prong the promise explicitly ties to committee membership. The prior rationale offered his Ranking Member TITLE as evidence of oversight; a title held while missing every hearing is not oversight. NBC News (May 9, 2025) reported: 'He missed all nine of the hearings and business meetings the Senate Homeland Security Committee has held this year' (also skipping all 11 Agriculture Committee meetings). Corroborating absenteeism: Philadelphia Magazine (Feb 26, 2025) reported he had missed 18 of 91 floor votes in 2025, more than any other senator, and was the fourth most-absent senator in 2024; a Philadelphia Inquirer editorial (via The National Desk) said he 'regularly skips committee hearings.' In fairness the negative evidence is not current: he re-engaged with the committee in 2026 - WESA/AP (Mar 18, 2026, verified directly) places him questioning at the HSGAC hearing on Markwayne Mullin's DHS nomination, and he has pressed DHS publicly (call for Sec. Noem's firing, Jan 27, 2026, verified on his own site; letter opposing PA ICE warehouses, Feb 7, 2026). OUTCOME: CHAMPIONED (+0.75) overstates a bundled promise in which one prong was demonstrably unfulfilled for a sustained period. Applying the same standard I would to any party - a senator who led a major enforcement law, co-sponsored one unenacted cyber bill, but missed 100 percent of the named committee's hearings for a year before partially recovering - the correct label is PARTIAL (+0.5): kept some but not all of it. Championing on border security is real and is why this stays clearly positive rather than dropping to ATTEMPTED. Caveat on evidence: the NBC News article returned HTTP 403 to direct fetch; its 'all nine' sentence was reproduced identically by two independent search indexes with matching headline, author framing and May 9, 2025 date, and is corroborated in substance by the Philadelphia Magazine and Inquirer reporting, so it is retained rather than discarded.