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
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.
s5236-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend titles XIX and XXI of the Social Security Act to enhance financial support for rural and safety net hospitals providing maternity, labor, and delivery services to vulnerable populations, and for other purposes.
s5116-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo support Russia's democratic forces in exile and to codify sanctions imposed under certain Executive orders relating to the Russian Federation.
s4334-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo enhance the security operations of the Transportation Security Administration and stability of the transportation security workforce by applying the personnel system under title 5, United States Code, to employees of the Transportation Security Administration, 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.
s3791-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo reauthorize the America's Conservation Enhancement Act, and for other purposes.
s3194-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend title 5, United States Code, to achieve parity between the cost-of-living adjustment with respect to an annuity under the Federal Employees Retirement System and an annuity under the Civil Service Retirement System, and for other purposes.
s2620-118
Cosponsor Passed SenateTo establish the Chesapeake National Recreation Area as a unit of the National Park System, and for other purposes.
s1-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo expand Americans’ access to the ballot box and reduce the influence of big money in politics, and for other purposes.
s5-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation, and for other purposes.
s1651-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo encourage increased trade and investment between the United States and the countries in the Western Balkans, and for other purposes.
s1409-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo protect the safety of children on the internet.
s1381-118
Primary Sponsor ReportedTo authorize the Secretary of the Interior, through the Coastal Program of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, to work with willing partners and provide support to efforts to assess, protect, restore, and enhance important coastal landscapes that provide fish and wildlife habitat on which certain Federal trust species depend, and for other purposes.
s1084-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
s667-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo provide for a Federal partnership to ensure educational equity and quality.
s567-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, and for other purposes.
s359-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend title 28, United States Code, to provide for a code of conduct for justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and for other purposes.
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