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Cardin Announces He will not Run
for Re-election in 2024

May 1, 2023

U.S. Senator Ben Cardin, Maryland’s senior senator and Chair of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, announced that he would not seek re-election at the end of his current term. He released the following statement and video with his wife, Myrna Cardin.

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Letters From Ben

Thanksgiving

Dear Fellow Marylanders, On this Thanksgiving weekend, we celebrate a quintessential American holiday. Traditions may vary from table to table, but the core construct of family and friends coming together to give thanks for the blessings in our lives. President George Washington set the first “Day of Publick Thanksgivin” in November 1789, which included rendering “our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.” President Abraham Lincoln is credited with issuing the first proclamation declaring Thanksgiving a national holiday, writing in October 1863: “I do,...

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