Continue working to pass the bipartisan Clergy Act into law and urge Senate leadership to bring it up for a vote.

Mike Thompson · California · Democratic

policy impact 2.00 specificity 1.00 extraction confidence 97%

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Occurrences

Evidence

The official Mike Thompson member profile returned no matches for "Clery" or "clergy". The Thompson-sponsored bills visible on the page are still at introduced/referral status, with latest actions in late 2025.

No official congressional profile evidence shows Thompson advancing a Clery/Clergy bill in the 30-day lookback window; inference: the promise remains unresolved.

unresolved same_term

Mike Thompson | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.4-mini · confidence 31%

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GovInfo lists Public Law 118-173, the Stop Campus Hazing Act, with Date Approved December 23, 2024, Bill Number H.R. 5646, and legislative history showing House passage on September 24, 2024 and Senate passage on December 11, 2024.

The closest identifiable Clery-related bill became federal law in Thompson's same House term, satisfying the policy-result part of the promise but not proving Thompson was a principal driver.

partial same_term

Public Law 118 - 173 - Stop Campus Hazing Act - PLAW-118publ173 | Content Details | GovInfo
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 75%

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The enacted text states that the Act may be cited as the Stop Campus Hazing Act; it amends the Higher Education Act to require hazing incident statistics, creates a Campus Hazing Transparency Report, and renames the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.

The enacted law implements Clery Act changes and hazing disclosure requirements, supporting that the likely intended policy outcome was enacted.

partial same_term

Public Law 118-173, Stop Campus Hazing Act
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 78%

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Congress.gov actions show H.R. 5646 passed the House by voice vote on September 24, 2024, passed the Senate without amendment by unanimous consent on December 11, 2024, was signed by the President on December 23, 2024, and became Public Law No. 118-173.

The Senate did bring the measure up and pass it, and the bill became law; this confirms delivery of the legislative outcome, but not Thompson-specific leadership.

partial same_term

Actions - H.R.5646 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Stop Campus Hazing Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 76%

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Congress.gov identifies the sponsor as Rep. Lucy McBath, introduced September 21, 2023, and lists the latest action as December 23, 2024, when H.R. 5646 became Public Law No. 118-173. The CRS summary says the act requires higher education institutions to report hazing incidents and renames the Jeanne Clery statute as the Jeanne Clery Campus Safety Act.

Official bill metadata confirms the law and identifies another House sponsor, limiting attribution to Thompson absent stronger evidence of his role.

partial same_term

H.R.5646 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Stop Campus Hazing Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 72%

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Congress.gov lists Rep. Lucy McBath as sponsor and 58 current cosponsors for H.R. 5646. The compact cosponsor list includes dates through September 18, 2024; Mike Thompson does not appear in the actual cosponsor list.

The official cosponsor record does not show Thompson cosponsoring the bill, so the evidence supports only partial credit for the law passing rather than full candidate-delivery credit.

partial same_term

Cosponsors - H.R.5646 - 118th Congress (2023-2024): Stop Campus Hazing Act | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 69%

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Thompson's Congress.gov member page lists his activity totals and current district service, but page text searches for Hazing, Clery, and Clergy returned no matching entries on the visible member activity page.

A current official member activity page does not provide Thompson-specific evidence of advancing the Clery/Stop Campus Hazing legislation, keeping the candidate-credit assessment at partial rather than delivered.

partial same_term

Mike Thompson | Congress.gov | Library of Congress
secondary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 52%

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Assessments

partial same_term

The relevant Clery-related legislative outcome was enacted in the same House term: H.R. 5646 passed the House and Senate and became Public Law 118-173 on December 23, 2024. However, the record identifies Rep. Lucy McBath as sponsor, does not list Mike Thompson as a cosponsor, and provides no strong Thompson-specific evidence that he wrote, sponsored, urged Senate leadership on, or materially advanced the bill. Because the promised policy outcome occurred but candidate attribution is weak, partial credit is appropriate rather than full delivery.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 74%

partial same_term

The closest identifiable match to this ambiguous "Clergy/Clery" claim is the bipartisan Stop Campus Hazing Act, a Clery-related anti-hazing measure that was signed into law on December 29, 2024. That means the underlying policy outcome appears to have happened while Thompson was still serving in the same House term. But the available evidence does not show Thompson as the bill's sponsor or a principal driver; contemporaneous reporting identifies Rep. Lucy McBath as the House sponsor and Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine as Senate sponsors, and Thompson's official congressional profile does not clearly document Clery-related sponsorship or leadership. Using candidate-credit rules, that supports partial credit for the outcome occurring, but not full delivery by Thompson.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.4 · confidence 47%