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Ben Cardin's Voting Records on Issue: Business and Consumers

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Vote Smart provides easy access to congressional and state voting records and maintains a collection of key votes grouped by issue. Vote Smart uses the following criteria to select key votes:

  1. The vote should be helpful in portraying how a member stands on a particular issue
  2. The vote should be clear for any person to understand
  3. The vote has received media attention
  4. The vote was passed or defeated by a very close margin
  5. Occasionally, if a specific bill is consistently inquired about on the Voter's Research Hotline, the vote will be added

Vote Smart provides a summary of the version of the bill text associated with each selected key vote. Our summaries are written by Vote Smart's staff and interns, who adhere to our strict policies and procedures in order to guarantee absolute impartiality and accuracy. They do not necessarily reflect the content of the final version of the bill, but rather the version voted on in that stage. While many procedural votes take place before a full chamber vote, our voting stages reflect the final reading of each chamber vote. Each key vote selection is reviewed by the project's community of advisors, who are political scientists and journalists from all fifty states.

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National Key Votes
Bill No. S J Res 32
Outcome Override of Veto - Veto Override Failed - Senate (54 - 45)
Date 01/10/2024
Bill No. S J Res 32
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (53 - 44)
Date 10/18/2023
Bill No. H J Res 30
Outcome Passage - Joint Resolution Passed - Senate (50 - 46)
Date 03/01/2023
Bill No. S 4008
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (52 - 43)
Date 05/19/2022
Bill No. S 4008
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/05/2022
Bill No. HR 3684
Outcome Passage With Amendment - Bill Passed - Senate (69 - 30)
Date 08/10/2021
Bill No. HR 1865
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (97 - 2)
Date 03/21/2018
Bill No. S 2155
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (67 - 31)
Date 03/14/2018
Bill No. S 764
Outcome Concurrence Vote With Amendment - Concurrence Vote Passed - Senate (63 - 30)
Date 07/07/2016
Bill No. S Amdt 3483
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (42 - 54)
Date 04/07/2016
Bill No. S J Res 23
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (52 - 46)
Date 11/17/2015
Bill No. S Amdt 2564
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (32 - 65)
Date 10/22/2015
Bill No. S Amdt 798
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Adopted - Senate (61 - 39)
Date 03/26/2015
Bill No. S 2569
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (54 - 42)
Date 07/30/2014
Bill No. S 2569
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 07/08/2014
Bill No. S 815
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (64 - 32)
Date 11/07/2013
Bill No. S Amdt 2013
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (43 - 55)
Date 11/07/2013
Bill No. S 815
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (61 - 30)
Date 11/04/2013
Bill No. S 743
Outcome Passage - Bill Passed - Senate (69 - 27)
Date 05/06/2013
Bill No. S 743
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Invoked - Senate (63 - 30)
Date 04/25/2013
Bill No. S 815
Outcome Introduced - Senate
Date 04/25/2013
Bill No. S 3364
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (56 - 42)
Date 07/19/2012
Bill No. S 2237
Outcome Cloture Vote - Cloture Not Invoked - Senate (53 - 44)
Date 07/12/2012
Bill No. S J Res 6
Outcome Motion Vote - Motion Rejected - Senate (46 - 52)
Date 11/10/2011
Bill No. S Amdt 740
Outcome Amendment Vote - Amendment Rejected - Senate (44 - 55)
Date 10/18/2011
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