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Benjamin L. Cardin is a Democratic member of the United States Senate representing the state of Maryland. Cardin was elected in 2006 to the seat previously held by Paul S. Sarbanes, defeating his Republican challenger, Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, 54 percent to 44 percent. His political experience includes 10 terms in Congress and two decades in the Maryland House of Delegates. During his tenure from 1987 to 2006 in the House of Representatives, Cardin was involved with fiscal issues, pension reform and health care. His legislation to increase the amount people can store in their 401(k) plans and IRAs was passed in 2001. His bill to expand Medicare was also enacted. He also authored...
Benjamin L. Cardin is a Democratic member of the United States Senate representing the state of Maryland. Cardin was elected in 2006 to the seat previously held by Paul S. Sarbanes, defeating his Republican challenger, Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele, 54 percent to 44 percent. His political experience includes 10 terms in Congress and two decades in the Maryland House of Delegates. During his tenure from 1987 to 2006 in the House of Representatives, Cardin was involved with fiscal issues, pension reform and health care. His legislation to increase the amount people can store in their 401(k) plans and IRAs was passed in 2001. His bill to expand Medicare was also enacted. He also authored legislation to provide a Medicare prescription drug benefit for chronic illnesses; fund graduate medical education; and guarantee coverage for emergency services. Cardin served on the following House committees: the Ways and Means Committee; ranking member of the Trade Subcommittee; Member of the Human Resources Subcommittee; ranking member of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. Cardin joined the Maryland House of Delegates in 1967 and was chairman of the Ways & Means Committee from 1974 to 1979, and after that Speaker. As Speaker, he was involved with reform efforts involving Maryland's property tax system, the school financing formula and ethical standards for elected officials. Continuing the family's political legacy is Cardin's nephew, Jon S. Cardin, who is currently serving his second term in the Maryland House of Delegates, representing District 11 in Baltimore County.
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Kratovil announces opposition to health care legislation
Baltimore Sun reporterDemocratic leaders scrambled Friday to secure enough votes to push major health care legislation through the House this weekend, but opposition from a growing number of Democrats, including Rep. Frank Kratovil of Maryland, raised new questions about the...Tags: Government Health Care, Laws, John P. Sarbanes, Medical Services, Roscoe G Bartlett
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Mikulski asks attorney general to help dead fire cadet's family
Baltimore Sun reportersSen. Barbara A. Mikulski asked Attorney General Eric Holder on Thursday to assist the family of a Baltimore fire cadet killed in a training exercise whose death benefit claim was rejected by the Department of Justice. Writing to Holder a day after The...Tags: Family, Eric Holder, Fires, Advanced Training
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Officials' spouses pitch in to fight hunger
Myrna Cardin, wife of Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, donned a T-shirt printed with "Elect to end hunger" and went to work Tuesday on an assembly line at the Maryland Food Bank in Halethorpe. Nearly 100 volunteers, including the spouses of many federal and state...Tags: Family, Halethorpe, Michelle Obama, Election Day, Barack Obama
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$50 million allotted for Chesapeake by Senate
Capital News ServiceThe Chesapeake Bay is slated to get $50 million in funding, thanks to an appropriations bill that passed the Senate last week and awaits President Barack Obama's signature. In Maryland, the funds will include $1 million for the Chesapeake Bay Gateways...Tags: Wildlife, Chesapeake Bay, Zoology, Natural Resources, Gardens and Parks
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Documentary 'By the People' transports viewers back to election night
Baltimore Sun TV criticThere are three things you should know about the HBO documentary "By the People: The Election of Barack Obama." First, this two-hour film is the document in all likelihood by which the landmark presidential campaign of 2008 will be known to future...Tags: The White House, Government, Barack Obama, Referenda, Polk County (Iowa)
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A smarter grid
Members of the Maryland congressional delegation and the U.S. secretary of housing and urban development joined Friday to congratulate Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. for receiving $200 million in federal stimulus grants to support efforts to modernize the...Tags: John P. Sarbanes, Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., Elijah E. Cummings, Consumers, National Government
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Hybrid maker to buy GM site
Baltimore Sun reportersA hybrid-car maker plans to reopen the shuttered General Motors plant in Wilmington, Del., that employed several hundred Marylanders, igniting hope of new job opportunities for the laid-off workers. The fledgling Fisker Automotive of California announced...Tags: Financially Distressed Companies, David Myers, Employees, Vehicles, Bankruptcy
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New push planned in Congress to clean up bay
Baltimore Sun reporterMaryland politicians and others gathered on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis Monday to announce a new push in Congress to restore the troubled estuary by giving state and federal governments more power and funding to clean up pollution...Tags: Chesapeake Bay, Elijah E. Cummings, Democratic Party, Environmental Politics, Water Pollution
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Congress extends hate crime protections to gays
Physical attacks on people based on their sexual orientation will join the list of federal hate crimes in a major expansion of the civil rights-era law Congress approved today and sent to President Barack Obama. A priority of the late Sen. Edward M....Tags: Human Rights Campaign, Tony Perkins, U.S. Department of Justice, Eric Holder, Government
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O'Malley missed Cardin's party, and that was lucky for him
Del. Jon S. Cardin not only planned an August night to remember for his girlfriend that featured a mock police raid and marriage proposal. He also invited Gov. Martin O'Malley to make a surprise appearance afterward to congratulate the couple.
As it...Tags: Regional Authority, Air and Space Accidents, Executive Branch, Martin O'Malley, Government
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Data pointing to rising home sales
Homebuyers - many staring down a deadline to get the $8,000 tax credit for first-time purchasers - signed about 30 percent more contracts in the Baltimore metro area last month than they did a year ago. That's by far the biggest increase all year,...Tags: Real Estate Agents, Rockville (Montgomery, Maryland), Contracts, Sales, Credit and Debt
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Senate easily confirms Perez
Maryland Labor Secretary Thomas E. Perez easily won Senate confirmation Tuesday as the new head of the civil rights division at the Justice Department. The bipartisan tally was 72-22, with both of Maryland's Democratic senators voting in favor. All of...Tags: Labor Legislation, Hospitals and Clinics, Government, Barack Obama, Dominican Republic
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