Fight for Title X.

Lori Trahan · Massachusetts · Democratic

policy impact 2.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 90%

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Evidence

Fight for Title X: More than four million Americans rely on Title X's affordable family planning services for contraception education and birth control. Title X also provides for healthcare services including breast and pelvic exams, cervical and breast cancer screenings, and STI/HIV screening and treatment services.

Trahan's campaign explicitly promised to fight for Title X and described the program as providing family planning and preventive health services.

unresolved unknown

Representative Lori Trahan Congresswoman Lori Trahan was born and raised in a working-class family in Lowell, Massachusetts. She is the mom of two young girls and proudly represents Massachusetts' 3rd Congressional District.
campaign · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 97%

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For carrying out the program under title X of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects, $286,479,000.

The fiscal 2020 appropriations law preserved federal Title X family planning funding at $286.479 million.

partial same_term

Public Law 116-94, Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020
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Roll Call 689 | Bill Number: H. R. 1865; Status: Passed; Trahan Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.

Trahan voted yes on the appropriations package that became Public Law 116-94 and funded Title X for fiscal 2020.

partial same_term A for effort

House Roll Call 689, H.R. 1865, December 17, 2019
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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The effect of this 2021 final rule is to revoke the requirements of the 2019 regulations, including removing restrictions on nondirective options counseling and referrals for abortion services and eliminating requirements for strict physical and financial separation between abortion-related activities and Title X project activities.

HHS reversed the 2019 Title X restrictions, restoring referral and counseling rules central to Title X access debates. This was an executive-branch delivery during Trahan's later House term, not legislation she personally enacted.

partial later_term

Federal Register: Ensuring Access to Equitable, Affordable, Client-Centered, Quality Family Planning Services
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 91%

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For carrying out the program under title X of the PHS Act to provide for voluntary family planning projects, $286,479,000.

The fiscal 2022 appropriations law again provided $286.479 million for Title X family planning projects after the Biden administration had revoked the 2019 Title X rule.

partial later_term

Public Law 117-103, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 94%

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Roll Call 66 | Bill Number: H. R. 2471; Status: Passed; Trahan Democratic Massachusetts MA Yea.

Trahan voted yes on the House amendment to H.R. 2471, the appropriations measure that became Public Law 117-103 and funded Title X for fiscal 2022.

partial later_term A for effort

Roll Call 66, Bill Number: H.R. 2471
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 96%

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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

Trahan promised generally to fight for Title X, not to enact a specific statutory change. During her first House term, Congress preserved Title X funding in the fiscal 2020 appropriations law, and Trahan voted for the package. That is direct supportive action in federal office and satisfies meaningful effort, but the evidence does not show she personally sponsored or materially advanced a distinct Title X expansion or protection beyond voting for omnibus appropriations. Later restoration of Title X rules was chiefly an executive-branch action, so it supports only partial candidate credit.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%