Benjamin L. Cardin
AnalysisD MD · Senate
Healthcare
+66Government Operations
-29Education
-78Environment
+36Finance
+16Foreign Policy
-40Defense
-6Labor
+47Elections
-9Regulated Industries
-49Criminal Justice
+28Energy
+26Technology
-18Transportation
-6Judiciary
-63Foreign Affairs
+5Civil Rights
+1Trade
-22Housing
-9Healthcare Consumers
-32Industry Impact Profile
2760 industry impacts
How this is computed
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
CosponsorSupporting the goals and ideals of Career and Technical Education Month.
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.
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.
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.
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.
s5191-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo award grants to States to support efforts at institutions of higher education to increase degree attainment, and for other purposes.
sres833-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeCountering 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.
s5033-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the Child Care Access Means Parents In School Program under the Higher Education Act of 1965.
s4902-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.
s4773-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo improve the health of minority individuals, and for other purposes.
s4595-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo improve the structure of the Federal Pell Grant program, and for other purposes.
s4469-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo improve the understanding of, and promote access to treatment for, chronic kidney disease, and for other purposes.
s4211-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo 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.
s4127-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo 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.
s4109-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo 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.
s4117-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo require the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to establish a Climate Change Education Program, and for other purposes.
s3987-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo protect stateless persons in the United States, and for other purposes.
s4-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo 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.
s3748-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the Help America Vote Act of 2002 to increase voting accessibility for individuals with disabilities and older individuals, and for other purposes.
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