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ChampionedChild Nutrition / Education

Expand access to healthy school meals and breakfasts for students nationwide so no child comes to school hungry, by enacting his bipartisan Healthy Meals / Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act.

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ChampionedFact-checker reviewConfidence: 85%

Independently verified. GovTrack confirms the primary source record: the 'Healthy Breakfasts Help Kids Learn Act of 2017' (H.R. 3738, 115th Congress) was SPONSORED by Rep. James 'Jim' McGovern [D-MA2] and its status is 'Died in a previous Congress' (introduced Sept. 12, 2017; never became law). The School Nutrition Association independently confirms McGovern introduced it jointly with Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL), making it genuinely bipartisan, and describes the substance (an added ~6 cents in USDA Foods commodity support per school breakfast served to expand the School Breakfast Program). McGovern was the lead author/sponsor who drove the effort and reintroduced it across Congresses — far beyond a single supporting vote — which is textbook CHAMPIONED (+0.75). It is not FULL because the promise's goal of 'enacting' the bill was never met: every version stalled in committee without becoming law. The outcome is fair under a party-neutral standard — a lead sponsor of a bipartisan bill that stalled warrants CHAMPIONED regardless of party. Note: the prior rating also cited a mcgovern.house.gov press release and congress.gov page that could not be directly re-fetched (403 bot-blocking), but GovTrack corroborates the congress.gov bill's existence, sponsor, and dead status, and SNA corroborates the bipartisan co-sponsorship, so ≥2 real supporting sources are established.

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