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Benjamin L. Cardin

Benjamin L. Cardin

D MD · Senate

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Healthcare

+66
Helped 150 Hurt 84 Unclear 593

Government Operations

-29
Helped 27 Hurt 56 Unclear 651

Education

-78
Helped 83 Hurt 161 Unclear 225

Environment

+36
Helped 108 Hurt 72 Unclear 175

Finance

+16
Helped 98 Hurt 82 Unclear 99

Foreign Policy

-40
Helped 68 Hurt 108 Unclear 45

Defense

-6
Helped 32 Hurt 38 Unclear 142

Labor

+47
Helped 67 Hurt 20 Unclear 71

Elections

-9
Helped 64 Hurt 73 Unclear 12

Regulated Industries

-49
Helped 21 Hurt 70 Unclear 46

Criminal Justice

+28
Helped 78 Hurt 50 Unclear 8

Energy

+26
Helped 46 Hurt 20 Unclear 54

Technology

-18
Helped 37 Hurt 55 Unclear 27

Transportation

-6
Helped 8 Hurt 14 Unclear 92

Judiciary

-63
Helped 7 Hurt 70 Unclear 21

Foreign Affairs

+5
Helped 40 Hurt 35 Unclear 14

Civil Rights

+1
Helped 29 Hurt 28 Unclear 20

Trade

-22
Helped 19 Hurt 41 Unclear 2

Housing

-9
Helped 25 Hurt 34

Healthcare Consumers

-32
Helped 2 Hurt 34 Unclear 22
20 policy domains
Helped Hurt Mixed Unclear

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P Primary sponsor · C Co-sponsor · Y Yea vote · N Nay vote

Weighted score (w:) uses strongest role per bill. Weights: Primary 1.0, Co-sponsor 0.3, Yea 0.1, Nay -0.1.

Bills where the legislator voted nay (without sponsorship) contribute -0.1 per bill. Equal yea and nay roll calls on the same bill contribute 0.

Vote date filters affect vote attribution; sponsorship is always included.

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Showing positive and negative-direction effects only. Mixed and uncertain effects are not included in these counts.

Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills

sres67-118

Cosponsor

Supporting the goals and ideals of Career and Technical Education Month.

1 clause
Homeowners Education Foreign Businesses Environmental Groups

s5581-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To 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.

52 clauses Dec 18, 2024
Small Business General Public Federal Government Nonprofit Organizations

s5586-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide for a percentage of student loan forgiveness for public service employment, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Dec 18, 2024
Federal Administration Education

s5574-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To support Lebanon’s rule of law and democratic institutions through sanctions, grants, and scholarships, and for other purposes.

11 clauses Dec 17, 2024
Health Care Providers Environmental Services Federal Administration Defense Contractors

s5491-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To 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.

113 clauses Dec 11, 2024
Health Care Providers Defense Contractors Federal Administration Financial Services

s5381-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To 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.

5 clauses Nov 21, 2024
Education Environmental Services Federal Administration Defense Contractors

s5191-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To award grants to States to support efforts at institutions of higher education to increase degree attainment, and for other purposes.

5 clauses Sep 25, 2024
Federal Administration Education

sres833-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Countering disinformation, propaganda, and misinformation in Latin America and the Caribbean, and calling for multi-stakeholder efforts to address the significant detrimental effects that the rise in disinformation, propaganda, and misinformation in regional information environments has on democratic governance, human rights, and United States national interests.

1 clause Sep 19, 2024
Education

s5033-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Child Care Access Means Parents In School Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965.

2 clauses Sep 12, 2024
Health Care Providers

s4902-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.

37 clauses Jul 31, 2024
Labor Health Care Providers Environmental Services Federal Administration

s4773-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.

392 clauses Jul 25, 2024
Federal Administration Health Care Providers

s4595-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To improve the structure of the Federal Pell Grant program, and for other purposes.

7 clauses Jun 20, 2024
Federal Administration Education

s4469-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To improve the understanding of, and promote access to treatment for, chronic kidney disease, and for other purposes.

7 clauses Jun 5, 2024
Federal Administration Health Care Providers

s4211-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 to require States to designate public high schools as voter registration agencies, to direct such schools to conduct voter registration drives for students attending such schools, to direct the Secretary of Education to make grants to reimburse such schools for the costs of conducting such voter registration drives, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Apr 30, 2024
Federal Administration Education

s4127-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To provide for the consideration of a definition of antisemitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of Federal antidiscrimination laws concerning education programs or activities, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Apr 16, 2024
Federal Administration Education

s4109-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend title 10, United States Code, to clarify roles and responsibilities within the Department of Defense relating to subconcussive and concussive brain injuries and to improve brain health initiatives of the Department of Defense, and for other purposes.

13 clauses Apr 11, 2024
Hospitals Federal Government Child Day Care Services Aerospace Product and Parts Manufacturing

s4117-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Climate Change Education Program, and for other purposes.

6 clauses Apr 11, 2024
Health Care Providers Education

s3987-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To protect stateless persons in the United States, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Mar 20, 2024
Federal Administration Education

s4-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to revise the criteria for determining which States and political subdivisions are subject to section 4 of the Act, and for other purposes.

20 clauses Feb 29, 2024
Native American Tribes State & Local Government Political Campaigns General Public

s3748-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to increase voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities and older individuals, and for other purposes.

23 clauses Feb 7, 2024
Labor Health Care Providers Information Technology Education
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