Benjamin L. Cardin
AnalysisD MD · Senate
Policy Effects
Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.
These are assessments of legislative text, not measurements of realized outcomes or the legislator’s intent.
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119 identified effects across 97 analyzed clauses in 22 bills.
Numbers count identified effects. One clause can affect several groups or contain several effects.
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What the effects and counts mean
Potential benefits are effects assessed as favorable to the named group. Potential burdens impose costs, restrictions, risks, or lost opportunities on that group.
Mixed effects contain countervailing effects on the same group. Unclear effects have an undetermined direction. A group can have separate benefits and burdens; these are counted separately.
Counts describe the number of identified effects, not their size or public value. Bill and clause counts are distinct within each view. Shared evidence may appear under several groups or policy areas, so their counts should not be added together.
Historical bill versions are included. Clauses analyzed in different versions count separately. A bill’s current status does not establish that every analyzed provision was enacted.
Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.
Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills
sres412-118
CosponsorSupporting the nearly 150,000 United Auto Workers currently negotiating collective bargaining agreements with the “Big Three” automakers.
sres67-118
CosponsorSupporting the goals and ideals of Career and Technical Education Month.
sres605-118
Primary SponsorRecognizing the 75th anniversary of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and its critical role in improving the dental, oral, and craniofacial health of the United States through research, training, and the dissemination of health information.
sres221-118
Primary SponsorPromoting minority health awareness and supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Month in April 2023, which include bringing attention to the health disparities faced by minority populations of the United States such as American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders.
sres37-118
Primary SponsorAuthorizing expenditures by the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.
sres645-118
CosponsorDesignating the week of April 20 through April 28, 2024, as National Park Week.
s5586-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for a percentage of student loan forgiveness for public service employment, and for other purposes.
s5581-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo strengthen and expand efforts to identify, include, and advance untapped potential in the United States’ international affairs workforce to strengthen national security, and for other purposes.
s5570-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a grant program to rebuild and improve transportation infrastructure at urban waterfronts, and for other purposes.
s5574-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo support Lebanon’s rule of law and democratic institutions through sanctions, grants, and scholarships, and for other purposes.
s5491-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo mobilize United States strategic, economic, and diplomatic tools to confront the challenges posed by the People’s Republic of China and to set a positive agenda for United States economic and diplomatic efforts abroad, and for other purposes.
sres925-118
CosponsorRelating to the death of the Honorable Fred R. Harris, former Senator for the State of Oklahoma.
s5454-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo update the United States policy towards Hong Kong, and for other purposes.
s5416-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to address the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers, and for other purposes.
s5377-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo develop a strategy for increasing access to independent information for Chinese citizens, to establish an interagency task force to carry out such strategy, and for other purposes.
s5381-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the State of Maryland and provide for its administration as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
sres908-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeExpressing support for the goals of Stomach Cancer Awareness Month.
sres915-118
CosponsorDesignating September 2024 as National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month.
sres902-118
CosponsorRelating to the death of Timothy Peter Johnson, former Senator for the State of South Dakota.
s5320-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to authorize certain long-term contracts for Federal purchases of energy, and for other purposes.
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