Chris Van Hollen

U.S. Senator (Class 3), MD

Democratic Maryland since Jan 3, 2023

Office record: unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

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Issue areas

Derived from issue-tagged bills they sponsored and stated positions — each links to the underlying record. AI-derived tags

Government Operations & Budget 3 Banking & Finance 1 Environment & Energy 1 Foreign Policy & Trade 1 Labor & Employment 1 Transportation & Infrastructure 1

Offices & terms

Office	Party	From	To	Source
U.S. Senator (Class 3), MD current Maryland	Democratic	Jan 3, 2023	Jan 3, 2029	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US Senate District Maryland United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2023	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Senator (Class 3), MD Maryland	Democratic	Jan 3, 2017	Jan 3, 2023	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2017	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 6, 2015	Jan 3, 2017	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2015	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 3, 2013	Jan 3, 2015	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 5, 2011	Jan 3, 2013	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 5, 2011	Jan 3, 2013	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2011	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 6, 2009	Jan 3, 2011	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 4, 2007	Jan 3, 2009	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 4, 2007	Jan 3, 2009	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 4, 2005	Jan 3, 2007	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 4, 2005	Jan 3, 2007	openstates/people CC0-1.0
US House District MD-8 United States	Democratic	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2005	openstates/people CC0-1.0
U.S. Representative, MD-8 Maryland	Democratic	Jan 7, 2003	Jan 3, 2005	unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Committee assignments

Senate Committee on Appropriations — Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — State Department and USAID Management, International Operations, and Bilateral International Development — Ranking Member unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Homeland Security unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Department of Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Financial Services and General Government unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Appropriations — Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Digital Assets unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — Housing, Transportation, and Community Development unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs — National Security and International Trade and Finance unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — Africa and Global Health Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on Foreign Relations — East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity Policy unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0
Senate Committee on the Budget unitedstates/congress-legislators CC0-1.0

Ideology — academic context, not a GovTally claim

DW-NOMINATE coordinates (Congress 119): economic dim. -0.399, social dim. -0.228. Voteview DW-NOMINATE Voteview-academic

Roll-call votes (840 recorded)

Vote	Position	Date	Result	Source
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.	Yea	Sep 11, 2025	Decision of Chair Not Sustained	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.	Nay	Sep 11, 2025	Motion to Reconsider Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.	Nay	Sep 11, 2025	Cloture Motion Rejected	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Table Schumer Amdt. No. 3849	Nay	Sep 10, 2025	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
SRES 377 — An executive resolution authorizing the en bloc consideration in Executive Session of certain nominations on the Executive Calendar.	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Motion to Table Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Kyle Christopher Dudek, of Florida, to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Kyle Christopher Dudek to be U.S. District Judge for the Middle District of Florida	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Robert Law, of the District of Columbia, to be Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Department of Homeland…	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Robert Law to be Under Secretary for Strategy, Policy, and Plans, Department of Homeland Security	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Maria A. Lanahan, of Missouri, to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri	Not voting	Sep 9, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Edward L. Artau of Florida, to be United States District Judge for the Southern District of Florida	Not voting	Sep 8, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2296 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Nay	Sep 4, 2025	Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Edward L. Artau to be U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of Florida	Nay	Sep 4, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Maria A. Lanahan to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of Missouri	Nay	Sep 4, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
S 2296 — National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026	Nay	Sep 2, 2025	Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Marcus Molinaro, of New York, to be Federal Transit Administrator	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Adam Telle, of Mississippi, to be an Assistant Secretary of the Army	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Sean Cairncross, of Minnesota, to be National Cyber Director	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: John Arrigo, of Florida, to be Ambassador of the United States of America to the Portuguese Republic	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Catherine Hanson, of South Carolina, to be Chief Financial Officer, Environmental Protection Agency	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Luke Lindberg, of South Dakota, to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Luke Lindberg to be Under Secretary of Agriculture for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Confirmation: Jeanine Pirro, of New York, to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Nomination Confirmed	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD
Motion to Invoke Cloture: Jeanine Pirro to be United States Attorney for the District of Columbia	Nay	Aug 2, 2025	Cloture Motion Agreed to	U.S. Senate LIS roll-call votes US-GOV-PD

Campaign funding

1,000 recorded contributions totalling $429,563. Amounts and dates come straight from FEC filings; funding-type labels are software-classified from those filings classified — 426 of 1000 classified so far.

Funding type	Contributions	Total	Share
Big donor	37	$114,800	27%
Corporate PAC	2	$46,232	11%
Small-dollar	387	$17,992	4%
Unclassified	574	$250,538	58%

Largest contributions

Amount	Donor	To committee	Type	Date	Source
$41,232	SCREEN STRATEGIES MEDIA	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Apr 13, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$12,104	SCREEN STRATEGIES MEDIA	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Jun 12, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	FINANCIAL SERVICES INSTITUTE PAC	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Corporate PAC	Sep 15, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally LLM enrichment (local oMLX)
$5,000	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Sep 23, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Sep 23, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$5,000	BROE, PATRICK	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Big donor	Sep 17, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$5,000	BROE, PAULA	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Big donor	Sep 17, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$3,300	JSTREETPAC	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Apr 25, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$3,300	GLAUN, BRAEME	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Big donor	Sep 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$3,300	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Apr 8, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$3,300	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Sep 30, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$3,300	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	Sep 3, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$3,300	SANDBERG, SHERYL	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Big donor	Sep 30, 2023	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules
$3,300	ACTBLUE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	unclassified	May 20, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD
$3,300	MICHAELS, LAURIE	VAN HOLLEN FOR SENATE	Big donor	Aug 27, 2024	FEC openFEC API US-GOV-PD GovTally funding-type rules

Largest by amount; not the full set. FEC contributor data may not be used for commercial solicitation.