“Pass the Equality Act to amend federal civil-rights law and explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.”
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Independently verified. Rep. Joe Neguse (D-CO02), elected 2018 and seated Jan 3, 2019, took sustained affirmative action on the Equality Act well beyond a single supporting vote. He is listed as a COSPONSOR of H.R. 5 in BOTH the 116th (2019) and 117th (2021) Congresses (GovTrack cosponsor records), and he voted to PASS it in the House both times: 'Aye' on roll call 116-h217 (May 17, 2019, passed 236-173) and 'Yea' on roll call 117-h39 (Feb 25, 2021, passed 224-206). Wikipedia confirms 'Neguse supported the Equality Act.' Because he sponsored (co-sponsored) the bill across two Congresses AND cast supporting passage votes each time, the effort clears the CHAMPIONED threshold ('actively led/sponsored/drove... beyond a single supporting vote') under a standard applied identically to any party. It falls short of FULL/PARTIAL because the promise to 'pass' the Act was not achieved: the House passed it both times but the Senate never took it up and it never became law. NOTE: the prior rating cited two neguse.house.gov press releases that returned HTTP 403 and could not be independently confirmed, and its claims of a floor speech and Equality Caucus membership were not separately verified; those sources are replaced here with primary roll-call and cosponsor records that directly substantiate the cosponsorship and both votes.
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