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.
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.
s5454-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo update the United States policy towards Hong Kong, 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.
s5095-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo counter efforts to recognize or normalize relations with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar al-Assad, and for other purposes.
s4647-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo require the transfer of regulatory control of certain munitions exports from the Department of Commerce to the Department of State, and for other purposes.
s3987-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo protect stateless persons in the United States, and for other purposes.
s3854-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo combat transnational repression abroad, to strengthen tools to combat authoritarianism, corruption, and kleptocracy, to invest in democracy research and development, and for other purposes.
s3705-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo protect individuals who face reprisals for defending human rights and democracy by enhancing the capacity of the United States Government to prevent, mitigate, and respond in such cases, and for other purposes.
s2964-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend title 36, United States Code, to grant a Federal charter to the Veterans Association of Real Estate Professionals, and for other purposes.
s2266-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide greater access to higher education for America’s students, to eliminate educational barriers for participation in a public service career, and for other purposes.
s1677-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo secure the Federal voting rights of persons when released from incarceration.
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.
s657-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to establish a tax credit for neighborhood revitalization, and for other purposes.
s570-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo amend title XIX of the Social Security Act to improve coverage of dental and oral health services for adults under Medicaid, and for other purposes.
s53-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo identify and combat corruption in countries, to establish a tiered list of countries with respect to levels of corruption by their governments and their efforts to combat such corruption, and to evaluate whether foreign persons engaged in significant corruption should be specially designated nationals under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act.
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