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AttemptedLabor Rights

Pass the PRO Act (Protecting the Right to Organize Act) to make it easier for workers to organize and collectively bargain.

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AttemptedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 70%

The core facts check out against live primary sources: H.R. 842, the PRO Act, passed the U.S. House 225-206 on March 9, 2021 (Voteview roll RH1170069, question 'On Passage'), after the Republican motion to recommit failed 206-218 the same day (Voteview roll RH1170068). Wikipedia confirms it then stalled in the Senate, never became law, and was reintroduced in the 118th (died in committee) and 119th Congresses. The prior rater's Clerk citation (roll070 = passage) is consistent with Voteview once you account for the one-number offset between the two numbering systems, so it is not fabricated. The vote was party-line (the Wikipedia source notes only five Republicans crossed over), and as a pro-labor Minnesota DFL Democrat Craig is virtually certain to have voted Yea, so the promise was genuinely advanced through her chamber but ultimately did not land. I am REVISING the outcome from CHAMPIONED (+0.75) to ATTEMPTED (+0.25): CHAMPIONED requires actively leading/driving the effort beyond a single supporting vote, and the only differentiator the prior rating offered was original cosponsorship. I could not independently verify that cosponsorship (congress.gov, GovTrack, LegiScan, the House Clerk, and the Wayback Machine were all unreachable/403), and even if accepted, being one of ~215 cosponsors and casting a party-line vote is broad rank-and-file support that nearly every House Democrat shares, not the lead-sponsorship, floor-management, or whip effort that CHAMPIONED denotes (the lead sponsor was Rep. Bobby Scott). Applying the same standard to either party, a member who cosponsors a heavily-cosponsored bill and votes for it maps to ATTEMPTED. Confidence reflects rock-solid passage facts and a near-certain Yea, tempered by the genuinely contestable ATTEMPTED-vs-CHAMPIONED line and my inability to extract Craig's individual vote line or verify cosponsorship directly.

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