Immigration: the Laken Riley Act cosponsorship
What they say
Her campaign says she voted for and cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which was signed into law.
“She has also proudly voted in favor of bipartisan legislation and cosponsored the Laken Riley Act, which aims to strengthen interior enforcement and was signed into law.”
What the record shows ·
She is not on the cosponsor roster of either bill of that name: H.R. 7511 of the 118th Congress, which has 78 cosponsors, or H.R. 29 of the 119th, which has 54, and no measure among her 700 cosponsorships carries the title. She did vote for it twice: Yea on H.R. 29 on January 7, 2025 (Roll Call 6, passed 264 to 159) and Yea on the Senate's S. 5 on January 22, 2025 (Roll Call 23, passed 263 to 156). S. 5, not the House bill, became Public Law 119-1 on January 29, 2025. That is what settles the cosponsorship: a member of the House cannot cosponsor a Senate bill, so the Act that was signed into law is one she had no way to cosponsor, and a cosponsorship could only have been of one of the two House companions, neither of which carries her name. No cosponsorship was withdrawn either: on both House bills the roster count and the count including withdrawn cosponsors are the same number, 78 of 78 and 54 of 54, so she was not on either roster and later taken off it.
Limit: Two of the three things the sentence says hold: she voted for the act, twice, and it was signed into law. The cosponsorship does not: she is on neither bill's roster. The check read both full rosters and the official titles of all 700 measures she has cosponsored, and no withdrawn cosponsorship is hiding behind either roster: Congress.gov reports the count including withdrawn cosponsors as equal to the count on both bills, 78 of 78 and 54 of 54. Voting for a bill is not cosponsoring it.