Ben Cardin | Wikipedia audio article
Channel: Subhajit Sahu
Date: 2018-12-07

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Ben Cardin


00:01:09 1 Early life and career
00:02:34 2 Political career
00:02:43 2.1 Maryland House of Delegates
00:03:25 2.2 U.S. House of Representatives
00:06:20 2.2.1 Committee assignments
00:07:09 2.3 U.S. Senate
00:07:14 2.3.1 2006 election
00:08:19 2.3.2 2012 election
00:09:08 2.3.3 2018 election
00:09:22 2.3.4 Committee assignments
00:11:00 2.4 Caucus membership
00:11:16 3 International experience
00:12:07 4 Honors
00:13:19 5 Political positions
00:13:49 5.1 Death Penalty
00:14:02 5.2 Education
00:14:33 5.3 Environmentalism
00:15:05 5.4 Elections
00:15:45 5.5 Gun control
00:16:56 5.6 Health
00:17:12 5.7 International policy
00:18:43 5.8 Online privacy
00:19:17 5.9 Taxes
00:19:58 5.10 Whistleblowers
00:20:21 6 Personal life
00:21:34 7 Volunteer service
00:22:00 8 Election history
00:22:09 9 Footnotes
00:22:18 10 Further reading
00:22:42 11 See also
00:22:55 12 External links



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Benjamin Louis Cardin (born October 5, 1943) is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Maryland, first elected to that seat in 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1979 to 1987, the youngest person to hold the position in history. In his half-century career as an elected official, he has never lost an election.
Cardin was elected to succeed Paul Sarbanes in 2006, defeating Republican Michael Steele, the Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, by a margin of 54% to 44%. He was reelected in 2012 taking 56% of the vote. He became a senior U.S. Senator on January 3, 2017 upon Barbara Mikulski's retirement. Cardin won reelection to a third term in 2018, taking 64% of the vote.