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Benjamin L. Cardin

Former Senator from Maryland, 2007–2025 · Democrat

Record from the 118th Congress · From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 7, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 118th Congress

How it’s measured
0.75· expected 1.14

Meets expectations

Rank 48 of 102 who served in the Senate that Congress · expected = average of 53 majority-party members

How far Cardin’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 67
  2. Action in committee 11
  3. Action beyond committee 7
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

67 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 64 substantive, 2 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Cardin’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 118th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Cardin. Medians and ranks are among everyone who served in the 118th Congress’s Senate.

Cardin in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

97/ 100

Chamber median 97 · 18 missed of 691

Voted on 673 of 691 roll calls; missed 18. Higher than 58% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate D median 99 · Rank 16 of 53

Sided with the Democratic majority on 524 votes that split the parties. Higher than 85% of senators.

40%100%
17/ 100

Chamber median 18 · −1

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 55% of senators.

0%70%
−0.32

Democratic middle 80%: -0.48 to -0.21

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 118th Congress

Sponsored 92 (median 52) · cosponsored 376 (median 327). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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