Sen. Benjamin Cardin
- State:
- Maryland
- Party:
- Democrat
Elected Positions
| Dates | Title | Representing |
|---|---|---|
| Senator | Maryland | |
| Representative | Maryland's 3rd District |
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Sponsorship Analysis
Cardin is a moderate Democratic leader according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.
Use this chart to compare Cardin to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.
This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Benjamin Cardin sits on the following committees:
- Chairman, Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe
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Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife
- Member, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
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Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- Chairman, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on African Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Near Eastern and South and Central Asian Affairs
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Senate Committee on Finance
- Member, Subcommittee on Health Care
- Member, Subcommittee on Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy
- Member, Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship
Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship
Some of Cardin’s most recently sponsored bills include...
- S. 1077: Chesapeake Bay Gateways and Watertrails Network Reauthorization Act
- S. 1038: A bill to eliminate racial profiling by law enforcement, and for other purposes.
- S. 999: A bill to amend the Older Americans Act of 1965 to provide social ...
- S. 970: Water Resources Research Amendments Act of 2013
- S. 969: A bill to amend the Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act to reauthorize the ...
- S.Res. 145: A resolution promoting minority health awareness and supporting the goals and ideals of ...
- S. 966: Medical FSA Improvement Act of 2013
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Voting Record
From Jan 2007 to May 2013, Cardin missed 7 of 1,978 roll call votes, which is 0.4%. This is better than the median of 1.8% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
- THOMAS, for sponsored bills