Benjamin L. Cardin

It???s been more than 30 years since the Environmental Protection Agency allowed a fuel mixture of 10% ethanol and 90% gasoline in America???s vehicle fleet. Today, the federal agency took steps to increase the ethanol mix even further. The EPA......

by David Nitkin The trickle of superdelegates siding with Barack Obama on the final primary day includes names familiar in political circles, and those not so well known. In the former category goes Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, the......

by Matthew Hay Brown It was 20 years ago today that The United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment took effect. The world body is marking the anniversary with an International Day in......

By Josh Mitchell and wire reports The Pentagon and the Environmental Protection Agency are mired in a dispute over the pace of environmental cleanups at Maryland's Fort Meade and Fort Detrick, where contamination from fuels and munitions for years seeped....

by Matthew Hay Brown Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin, in Pakistan Monday to meet with president Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, says the divided government in Islamabad seems to have come together on the need to crack down......

U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin of Maryland, a first-term Democratic who has been critical of the Bush administration???s policies in Iraq, will campaign on behalf of Barack Obama in South Florida next week, according to Obama aides. Cardin is a superdelegate......

U.S. Sen. Barack Obama???s presidential campaign on Monday dispatched to South Florida U.S. Sen. Ben Cardin, a first-term Democratic senator from Maryland and former U.S. House member, to tell Jewish voters and Sen. Hillary Clinton fans here to ignore...

Sonia Sotomayor continues her testimony Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee (Win McNamee/Getty Images) by James Oliphant We're back at Hart 216 for the third day of the Sotomayor Supreme Court hearings. Stay here for real time analysis during....

by Jim Tankersley With Americans so worried about the struggling economy and Congress prepping for a host of major legislative battles this year, President Barack Obama should scale back his health-care reform push and settle for a smaller, bipartisan...

by Mark Silva ACORN news here. The question is what people are making of it. In the controversy surrounding a federally financed community organization whose members have been accused of vote-tampering, and a few of its employees caught in surreptitious.....

Hello there! Kagan outside Sen. Ben Cardin's office while visiting Capitol Hill last week. (AP/Alex Brandon) by Christi Parsons and James Oliphant In college Elena Kagan wrote an essay lamenting Republican gains in the 1980 election and referring to......

by David Nitkin Former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele entered the race for U.S. Senate two years ago with a major push from President Bush and his allies. National Republican leaders were looking to build their party's brand identity......