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Bernard Sanders

12th term · 35.7 years in office: 11 full terms completed, 1 in progress.

Senator · VT · Independent · since Jan 1991

Bernard Sanders

Bills authored 15Missed votes 9 of 214Party unity 31% derived, how we compute this

Counted from 214 roll calls and 184 sponsorship records on file.

Stray indexpending review

Who they are

We don't publish a biography until a person has checked every sentence against its source. There isn't a reviewed one for this member yet. That is a gap in our review queue, and it says nothing about them.

The record card · sourced from Bioguide, the Clerk and the FEC

35.7YRS

In office · 12th term · since Jan 1991

We hold certified results for U.S. House seats only.

95.79%

Attendance

senate median 98.13% (100 members)

Not a candidate in any election we track.

Figures cover all roll calls we have ingested.

Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions ranking memberSenate Committee on Environment and Public WorksSenate Committee on FinanceSenate Committee on the BudgetSenate Committee on Veterans' AffairsSenate Committee on Finance · Social Security, Pensions, and Family Policy subcommittee ranking memberSenate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Education and the American Family subcommittee ex officioSenate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Employment and Workplace Safety subcommittee ex officioSenate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions · Primary Health and Retirement Security subcommittee ex officioSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight subcommitteeSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety subcommitteeSenate Committee on Environment and Public Works · Fisheries, Wildlife, and Water subcommitteeSenate Committee on Finance · Health Care subcommitteeSenate Committee on Finance · Taxation and IRS Oversight subcommittee15 bills authored · 0 enacted

Says vs. does · 72 issues in 6 clusters

Stated position vs. voting record.

The dashed shape is what they campaigned on. The solid shape is how they voted. Where the shapes separate, the record differs from the platform. The distance is measured. What it means is up to you.

SaysDoes
  • Economy & taxes: not yet stated; voted 49 of 100 toward FISCAL RESTRAINT.
  • Safety & enforcement: not yet stated; voted 49 of 100 toward STRICTER ENFORCEMENT.
  • Immigration: not yet stated; voted 24 of 100 toward TIGHTER LIMITS.
  • Rights & liberty: not yet stated; voted 45 of 100 toward INDIVIDUAL LIBERTY.
  • Environment & energy: not yet stated; voted 61 of 100 toward CONSERVE & PROTECT.
  • Governance & oversight: not yet stated; voted 69 of 100 toward DISCLOSURE & AUDIT.
Rim = strongest position on each cluster’s named pole · Same scale for every member · How we score ▸

pending review

The stats, cluster by cluster

6 clusters · 72 issues · sorted by gap size

Each rail runs between two positions real bills take. ○ marks what they campaigned on; ▪ marks how they voted. Select a cluster to open its issues.

GapSorted by gap size · How we score ▸

Receipts · recent votes on passage

How they voted.

Money & ties

Who's behind them.

How complete is this money picture?

12%of the money categories we track are publicly disclosed for this member, counting those that lawfully lag.

  • Campaign financeNot yet derived · 34%
  • Corporate-PAC shareNot yet derived · 22%
  • Disclosed tradesLagged · 12%
  • Lobbyist meetingsNot disclosed · 32%

Disclosed federally when a campaign committee registers; we do not yet hold FEC totals for this candidate.

Disclosed by the FEC; we have not built the honest derivation — same for every member.

Members must disclose trades within 45 days; this picture is always at least that far behind.

A gap in the disclosure system, not a statement about this member — lobbyist meetings are not federally disclosed for any member of Congress.

Weights are fixed product-wide and disclosed, so this percentage is comparable across members.

Who funds them

Disclosed federally when a campaign committee registers; we do not yet hold FEC totals for this candidate.

Disclosed trades

We hold no disclosed-trade filings for this member. That is a gap in what we have loaded; it does not mean none were filed.

FEC OpenFEC · disclosed trades: House Clerk / Senate filings.

Ideology placement

Economic (dim 1)-0.546
Social (dim 2)-0.429

Voteview DW-NOMINATE · retrieved Sep 7, 2026 — an external attributed reference, shown as context.

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