Benjamin L. Cardin

Authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

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

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.

To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a grant program to rebuild and improve transportation infrastructure at urban waterfronts, and for other purposes.

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

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.

To update the United States policy towards Hong Kong, and for other purposes.

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.

To 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.

To amend the National Energy Conservation Policy Act to authorize certain long-term contracts for Federal purchases of energy, and for other purposes.

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution’s development of an international binding agreement, which is expected to be completed at its Fifth Session in Busan, Republic of Korea in December 2024.

To establish a verifiable international terrestrial ecosystem services conservation program and provide international technical assistance for the development of markets, and for other purposes.

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.

Recognizing the importance of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) and welcoming the upcoming Quad Leaders Summit.

To counter efforts to recognize or normalize relations with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar al-Assad, and for other purposes.

To require periodic updates to the comprehensive strategy to promote Internet freedom and access to information in Iran, to authorize grants to support and develop programs in Iran that promote or expand an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet, and for other purposes.

To reassert the constitutional authority of Congress to determine the general applicability of the criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes.

To transfer and limit Executive Branch authority to suspend or restrict the entry of a class of aliens.

To prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.

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