Honorable Benjamin L. Cardin
United States Senator, Maryland, Democrat
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 Foreign Relations Committee; the Judiciary Committee, where he chairs the Subcommittee on Terrorism and Homeland Security; the Environment and Public Works Committee, where he chairs the Water and Wildlife Subcommittee; the Budget Committee; and the Small Business Committee. The following is from the July 27, 2010, Senate floor debate on S. 3628, the Democracy Is…
