Chris Van Hollen

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

12.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Chris Van Hollen is Maryland's senior Democratic senator and former House Budget Committee ranking member, serving his second Senate term.

Christopher Van Hollen Jr. is the senior U.S. Senator from Maryland, a Democrat first elected in 2016 to succeed the retiring Barbara Mikulski and re-elected in 2022. The son of a U.S. diplomat, he was born in Karachi and spent parts of his childhood in South Asia before attending Swarthmore, Harvard's Kennedy School, and Georgetown Law. Van Hollen served in the Maryland General Assembly and was elected to the U.S. House in 2002, where he represented a Montgomery County based district for seven terms, chaired the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee during the 2008 and 2010 cycles, and served as the top Democrat on the House Budget Committee. In the Senate he sits on Appropriations, Banking, Foreign Relations, Budget, and the Joint Economic Committee. Van Hollen has focused on the federal workforce, housing, U.S. policy toward the Middle East and Central America, and constraining partisan gerrymandering. He became Maryland's senior senator in 2025 following Ben Cardin's retirement.