Benjamin L. Cardin

Recognizing the 75th anniversary of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and its critical role in improving the dental, oral, and craniofacial health of the United States through research, training, and the dissemination of health information.

Authorizing expenditures by the Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship.

Promoting minority health awareness and supporting the goals and ideals of National Minority Health Month in April 2023, which include bringing attention to the health disparities faced by minority populations of the United States such as American Indians, Alaska Natives, Asian Americans, African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Hawaiians or other Pacific Islanders.

To 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.

To support Lebanon’s rule of law and democratic institutions through sanctions, grants, and scholarships, and for other purposes.

To amend title 23, United States Code, to establish a grant program to rebuild and improve transportation infrastructure at urban waterfronts, and for other purposes.

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 amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to address the disclosure of payments by resource extraction issuers, and for other purposes.

To develop a strategy for increasing access to independent information for Chinese citizens, to establish an interagency task force to carry out such strategy, and for other purposes.

To establish the Justice Thurgood Marshall National Historic Site in the State of Maryland and provide for its administration as an affiliated area of the National Park System, and for other purposes.

Expressing the sense of the Senate regarding the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution’s development of an international binding agreement, which is expected to be completed at its Fifth Session in Busan, Republic of Korea in December 2024.

To establish a verifiable international terrestrial ecosystem services conservation program and provide international technical assistance for the development of markets, and for other purposes.

To support Russia's democratic forces in exile and to codify sanctions imposed under certain Executive orders relating to the Russian Federation.

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

Recognizing the importance of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (the Quad) and welcoming the upcoming Quad Leaders Summit.

To counter efforts to recognize or normalize relations with any Government of Syria that is led by Bashar al-Assad, and for other purposes.

To require periodic updates to the comprehensive strategy to promote Internet freedom and access to information in Iran, to authorize grants to support and develop programs in Iran that promote or expand an open, interoperable, reliable, and secure Internet, and for other purposes.

Designating the week beginning September 8, 2024, as National Direct Support Professionals Recognition Week.

To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 340 South Loudon Avenue in Baltimore, Maryland, as the United States Representative Elijah E. Cummings Post Office Building.