Chris Van Hollen

Issue areas

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Offices & terms

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)

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.

Largest contributions

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Sponsored legislation (4 as lead sponsor)

• S 4837 US · Jun 18, 2026
  A bill to amend the District of Columbia Home Rule Act to provide for the automatic appointment of judges to the District of Columbia courts without the advice…
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• S 4757 US · Jun 11, 2026
  A bill to establish a Federal standard in order to improve the Nation's resilience to current and future flood risk.
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• S 4642 US · May 21, 2026
  Foreign Service Workforce Retention Act
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• SJRES 130 US · May 13, 2026
  A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Bureau of Consumer…
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Social media

Recent posts

• Bluesky · Jun 20, 2026 · 10:56 PM
  In October, the RSF massacred over 6,000 people in 3 days in El Fasher, Sudan. Now, in the RSF’s assault on al-Obeid, 500,000 civilians risk falling victim to that same brutality. We are not powerless to stop this. [1/2]
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• Bluesky · Jun 20, 2026 · 7:06 PM
  In the 2 weeks since Republicans voted down my amendments to ban this slush fund, Trump & Blanche have refused to say it’s dead — including, now, where it matters most: in court. Until it’s shut down, we must keep fighting to stop this $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund.
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• Bluesky · Jun 20, 2026 · 5:49 PM
  In 2022, workers at the Apple Store in Towson made history as the first to unionize their store. Now, Apple is closing the store & the workers of IAM Local 4538 have gone to the NLRB over unfair labor practices. Apple is worth $4.3+ TRILLION. They can afford to do better, they…
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• Bluesky · Jun 19, 2026 · 5:33 PM
  Democrats should make 2 key points. 1) The illegal war in Iran has been a blunder & we are worse off than before it started. 2) There’s no good way out of a bad war. We should reject the talking points of those who cheered it on & want to drag us back into it. When you're in a…
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• Bluesky · Jun 19, 2026 · 3:26 PM
  Very revealing. Republican senators who were AWOL regarding their constitutional duties around STARTING the war against Iran all of a sudden demand that Congress play a role in STOPPING the war. A whole lot of warmongering going on.
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• Bluesky · Jun 19, 2026 · 1:28 PM
  This year, Juneteenth falls 7 weeks after SCOTUS gutted the VRA, unwinding decades of progress & undoing a key pillar of the fight for equality. While Republicans are doing all they can to turn back the clock, Juneteenth reminds us that we must never rest in the pursuit of…
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• Bluesky · Jun 18, 2026 · 10:05 PM
  Trump's lawless ICE operation spent $700 MILLION of your tax dollars on 7 warehouses they’re now trying to get rid of. Not only is this ICE operation draconian & inhumane, it's an abuse of taxpayer dollars, paid for by their cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. It's twisted.
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• YouTube · Jun 18, 2026 · 12:29 PM
  But one thing worse than this deal is not ending this stupid war.
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• Bluesky · Jun 18, 2026 · 12:26 PM
  The deal between the United States & Iran underscores what we already knew: The Iran war was a huge blunder from the start & we are worse off as a result. But one thing worse than this deal is not ending this stupid war.
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• Bluesky · Jun 17, 2026 · 10:19 PM
  When Republicans passed their One Big Beautiful Bill they said it wouldn’t impact our most vulnerable. Now they’re eating their words. At a time when prices are out of control, 770,000 children have lost food assistance, all so billionaires & corporations can pay less in taxes.
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• YouTube · Jun 17, 2026 · 7:28 PM
  $12 million spent to rehire the same federal workers the Trump Admin. previously fired.
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• Bluesky · Jun 17, 2026 · 7:28 PM
  $12 million. That's how much taxpayer money the Trump Administration spent to rehire the same federal workers they'd previously fired. Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse – this Administration commits all three on a daily basis.
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