“Enact the Paycheck Fairness Act to close the gender wage gap by ending pay-secrecy policies, holding employers accountable for discriminatory pay practices, making it easier for workers to challenge pay discrimination, and strengthening remedies for affected employees.”
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Independently verified. Rep. Rosa DeLauro is the namesake lead author of the Paycheck Fairness Act, which she has personally driven since 1997. The official GPO bill text for H.R. 17 in the 118th Congress (fetched directly) confirms 'Ms. DeLauro' as sponsor, short title 'Paycheck Fairness Act,' introduced March 10, 2023 -- matching the 2023 promise. Wikipedia independently confirms she is the primary sponsor since 1997, that H.R. 17 was introduced March 10, 2023 with 216 co-sponsors, that it 'Died in Committee,' and that the bill has never passed into law. The bill's substantive provisions match the promise: it prohibits retaliation against employees who discuss/raise concerns about pay (ending pay secrecy), shifts the burden to employers to prove wage gaps are job-related (accountability), and adds compensatory/punitive damages plus class actions (stronger remedies). This is far beyond a single supporting vote -- she is the bill's lead sponsor and champion -- so it clearly exceeds ATTEMPTED. It was NOT enacted (died in committee in the Republican-controlled House), so FULL does not apply. CHAMPIONED (+0.75) is the correct outcome: actively led/drove the effort though not fully enacted. This standard is party-neutral: any lead author reintroducing their signature bill without passage earns CHAMPIONED. congress.gov's HTML bill page and DeLauro's House site returned 403 to the fetcher, but the GPO XML and Wikipedia both loaded and corroborate each other, giving two independent real supporting sources.
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