“Create a permanent national paid family and medical leave program by enacting the FAMILY Act, guaranteeing all workers up to 12 weeks of leave with up to 66% wage replacement, available regardless of employer size, part-time status, or self-employment.”
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Independently verified. Rosa DeLauro is the House author, namesake, and lead sponsor of the FAMILY Act (Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act) — the exact bill named in the promise — and has driven it far beyond a single supporting vote. Wikipedia's legislative history (verified) confirms she introduced it in 2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021 (the promise year), and 2023, and that it 'Died in Committee' every time (never became law). The National Partnership FAQ (verified) confirms the bill's provisions precisely match the promise: up to 12 weeks (60 workdays) of leave, 66% wage replacement, and coverage of part-time and self-employed workers regardless of employer size, with eligibility decoupled from FMLA; it references H.R. 804 (117th Congress, 2021), confirming the promise-year reintroduction. A second National Partnership fact sheet (verified) confirms DeLauro (House) and Gillibrand (Senate) as ongoing sponsors, 12 weeks of leave, and roughly two-thirds wage replacement. Because DeLauro authored and repeatedly led this exact legislation but it has not been enacted, CHAMPIONED (+0.75) is the correct, nonpartisan outcome — championing, not fulfillment (not FULL/PARTIAL), and well beyond ATTEMPTED/IGNORED. Any legislator of any party who authored and serially reintroduced the exact bill named in their promise, leading 100+ cosponsors, would earn the same label. Congress.gov and house.gov block automated fetching (HTTP 403, bot-blocking not fabrication), so the specific H.R. 5390 (119th Congress) number could not be personally re-fetched, but the outcome does not depend on that single number; confidence trimmed slightly (0.97 to 0.96) to reflect that one cited source could not be directly re-verified.
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