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
s1202-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo require full funding of part A of title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
s1176-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo direct the Secretary of Labor to issue an occupational safety and health standard that requires covered employers within the health care and social service industries to develop and implement a comprehensive workplace violence prevention plan, and for other purposes.
sres161-118
CosponsorDesignating the week of April 22 through April 30, 2023, as National Park Week.
s1171-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo amend chapter 131 of title 5, United States Code, to prevent Members of Congress and their spouses and dependent children from trading stocks and owning stocks, and for other purposes.
sres158-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeCondemning the deportation of children from Ukraine to the Russian Federation and the forcible transfer of children within territories of Ukraine that are temporarily occupied by Russian forces.
sres155-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeExpressing the sense of the Senate that the United States should negotiate strong, inclusive, and forward-looking rules on digital trade and the digital economy with like-minded countries as part of its broader trade and economic strategy in order to ensure that the United States values of democracy, rule of law, freedom of speech, human and worker rights, privacy, and a free and open internet are at the very core of digital governance.
s1098-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo prohibit the application of certain restrictive eligibility requirements to foreign nongovernmental organizations with respect to the provision of assistance under part I of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
sres142-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeExpressing concern about environmental crimes and attacks on the human rights of environmental and land defenders in Latin America and the Caribbean.
s1116-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo prohibit firearms dealers from selling a firearm prior to the completion of a background check.
s1143-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo direct the Secretary of Defense to carry out a grant program to increase cooperation on post-traumatic stress disorder research between the United States and Israel.
s1111-118
Cosponsor ReportedTo enhance United States civil nuclear leadership, support the licensing of advanced nuclear technologies, strengthen the domestic nuclear energy fuel cycle and supply chain, and improve the regulation of nuclear energy, and for other purposes.
s1084-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo eliminate racial, religious, and other discriminatory profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
sres157-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeCommemorating the 25th anniversary of the signing of the Good Friday Agreement, and for other purposes.
sres138-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeHighlighting the risks that environmental defenders face around the world and commending their role in defending human rights, combating climate chaos, and supporting a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment.
s1031-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo ensure affordable abortion coverage and care for every person, and for other purposes.
s1061-118
Primary Sponsor IntroducedTo prospectively repeal the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force.
s1007-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo establish in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor of the Department of State a Special Envoy for the Human Rights of LGBTQI+ Peoples, and for other purposes.
sres129-118
CosponsorDesignating March 2023 as National Women’s History Month.
s977-118
Cosponsor IntroducedTo provide grants for fire station construction through the Administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and for other purposes.
sres120-118
Cosponsor In CommitteeDesignating March 23, 2023, as National Women in Agriculture Day.
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