Benjamin L. Cardin

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 codify in statute certain sanctions with respect to the Russian Federation.

To prevent discrimination, including harassment, in employment.

To require the Secretary of Labor to maintain a publicly available list of all employers that relocate a call center or contract call center work overseas, to make such companies ineligible for Federal grants or guaranteed loans, and to require disclosure of the physical location of business agents engaging in customer service communications, and for other purposes.

To direct the Federal Communications Commission to take certain actions to increase diversity of ownership in the broadcasting industry, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to postpone tax deadlines and reimburse paid late fees for United States nationals who are unlawfully or wrongfully detained or held hostage abroad, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to enhance the Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit and make the credit fully refundable for certain taxpayers.

To promote United States-Mongolia trade by authorizing duty-free treatment for certain imports from Mongolia, and for other purposes.

To provide back pay to Federal contractors, and for other purposes.

Calling for the immediate release of Evan Gershkovich, a United States citizen and journalist, who was wrongfully detained by the Government of the Russian Federation in March 2023.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and the Small Business Act to expand the availability of employee stock ownership plans in S corporations, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act to authorize the Community Advantage Loan Program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.

To expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act to improve the Women’s Business Center Program, and for other purposes.

To amend the Small Business Act to require an annual report on entrepreneurial development programs, and for other purposes.

To amend the Truth in Lending Act to apply that Act to small business financing, and for other purposes.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to expand the earned income and child tax credits, and for other purposes.

To establish judicial ethics.