Honorable Benjamin Cardin
United States Senator, Maryland, Republican
Senator Cardin was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006. He served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1966 to 1986 (where he was Speaker from 1979 to 1986) and in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1986 to 2006. He sits on the following committees: Finance; Budget; Environment and Public Works, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Water and Wildlife; Foreign Relations; and Small Business and Entrepreneurship. The following is from the June 15, 2011, Senate floor debate on amendments to S. 782, the Economic Development Revitalization Act, relating to ethanol subsidies. I rise in support of the…
