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.
sres671-118
CosponsorExpressing support for the designation of the week of April 28, 2024, through May 4, 2024, as National Small Business Week to celebrate the contributions of small businesses and entrepreneurs in every community in the United States.
sres435-118
CosponsorRecognizing the week of October 30 through November 4, 2023, as National Veterans Small Business Week.
sres431-118
CosponsorRecognizing the month of October 2023 as National Women's Small Business Month.
s2515-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo 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.
s2482-118
Primary Sponsor ReportedTo amend the Small Business Act to authorize the Community Advantage Loan Program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
s2212-118
Primary Sponsor ReportedTo require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to establish an SBIC Advisory Committee, and for other purposes.
s2184-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Small Business Act to improve the Women’s Business Center Program, and for other purposes.
s2185-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Small Business Act to require an annual report on entrepreneurial development programs, and for other purposes.
s2209-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo establish a veteran Federal procurement entrepreneurship training program.
s2021-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the Truth in Lending Act to apply that Act to small business financing, and for other purposes.
s1744-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo amend the Small Business Act to reauthorize the SCORE program, and for other purposes.
s1664-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
s1370-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo reauthorize and limit the pre-disaster mitigation program of the Small Business Administration, and for other purposes.
s936-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo amend the Small Business Act to include requirements relating to graduates of career and technical education programs or programs of study for small business development centers and women’s business centers, and for other purposes.
s728-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide more effective remedies to victims of discrimination in the payment of wages on the basis of sex, and for other purposes.
sres200-118
Primary SponsorExpressing support for the designation of the week of April 30, 2023, through May 6, 2023, as National Small Business Week to celebrate the contributions of small businesses and entrepreneurs in every community in the United States.
s609-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo establish a pilot program awarding competitive grants to organizations administering entrepreneurial development programming to formerly incarcerated individuals, and other purposes.
s45-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to simplify reporting requirements, promote tax compliance, and reduce tip reporting compliance burdens in the beauty service industry.
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