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John P. Sarbanes

John P. Sarbanes

D MD-3 · House

2023–2025 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2021–2023 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2019–2021 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2017–2019 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2015–2017 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2013–2015 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2011–2013 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2009–2011 House Of Representatives (District 3)
2007–2009 House Of Representatives (District 3)

Policy Effects

Estimated effects on people, organizations, and industries in bills this legislator sponsored, cosponsored, or voted on. Includes bills they voted against.

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Only direct effects with high or medium confidence in the policy-area assignment are included. Bills are connected through sponsorship, cosponsorship, or Yea/Nay votes; a vote against a bill does not reverse its assessed effects. Vote dates filter recorded votes and vote-linked bills; sponsorship remains included.

Sponsored & Cosponsored Bills

hr7787-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To establish the Federal Labor-Management Partnership Council, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Mar 21, 2024

hres1074-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Reaffirming the House of Representatives support of a two-state solution.

0 clauses Mar 12, 2024

hr7634-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to promulgate certain limitations with respect to pre-production plastic pellet pollution, and for other purposes.

1 clause Mar 12, 2024

hr7522-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the America’s Conservation Enhancement Act to reauthorize the Chesapeake WILD program.

0 clauses Mar 5, 2024

hr7558-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Program, and for other purposes.

0 clauses Mar 5, 2024

hr7529-118

Primary Sponsor Introduced

To amend the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998 to reauthorize the Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network.

0 clauses Mar 5, 2024

hr7474-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To direct the Secretary of the Interior to remove the Robert E. Lee Monument at Antietam National Battlefield, and for other purposes.

1 clause Feb 28, 2024

hr7359-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To provide a framework for the Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection and the Department of Education to coordinate in providing assistance to and serving borrowers seeking to resolve complaints related to their private education or Federal student loans, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Feb 14, 2024

hr7127-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To increase the rates of pay under the statutory pay systems and for prevailing rate employees by 7.4 percent, and for other purposes.

2 clauses Jan 30, 2024

hr6930-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to require political committees to file separate reports for contributions of $1,000 or more which are received fewer than 20 days before the date of any election in which the committee makes a contribution to, or an expenditure or electioneering communication on behalf of or in opposition to, a candidate or political party in the election, and for other purposes.

1 clause Jan 10, 2024

hr6826-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To designate the visitor and education center at Fort McHenry National Monument and Historic Shrine as the Paul S. Sarbanes Visitor and Education Center.

0 clauses Dec 14, 2023

hr6805-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to designate per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances as hazardous substances under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980.

16 clauses Dec 14, 2023

hr6747-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To speed up the deployment of electricity transmission and clean energy, with proper input from affected communities, and for other purposes.

62 clauses Dec 13, 2023

hr6654-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To prohibit the sale and distribution of expanded polystyrene food service ware, expanded polystyrene loose fill, and expanded polystyrene coolers, and for other purposes.

3 clauses Dec 7, 2023

hr6348-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To direct the Secretary of Energy to establish a grant program to facilitate tree planting that reduces residential energy consumption, and for other purposes.

1 clause Nov 9, 2023

hr6312-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to prohibit certain donations to Inaugural Committees, to establish limitations on donations to Inaugural Committees, to require certain reporting by Inaugural Committees, and for other purposes.

4 clauses Nov 8, 2023

hres820-118

Cosponsor In Committee

Expressing support for the designation of October 28 as Oxi Day to commemorate the anniversary of Greek Prime Minister Ioannis Metaxas’ answer of Oxi! or No! to surrender to the Axis forces, inflicting a fatal wound that helped save democracy for the world.

1 clause Oct 26, 2023

hr6053-118

Cosponsor Introduced

To amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to reduce the production and use of certain single-use plastic products and packaging, to improve the responsibility of producers in the design, collection, reuse, recycling, and disposal of consumer products and packaging, to prevent pollution from consumer products and packaging from entering into animal and human food chains and waterways, and for other purposes.

41 clauses Oct 25, 2023

hr5983-118

Cosponsor In Committee

To amend the Federal Water Pollution Control Act to restore a national minimum standard of protection for the water resources of the United States while providing certainty to regulated entities.

3 clauses Oct 18, 2023

hres793-118

Cosponsor Passed House

Calling on Hamas to immediately release hostages taken during October 2023 attack on Israel.

0 clauses Oct 17, 2023

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