Senator, Vermont
Bernard Sanders
Independent. In Congress since 1991. Age 85. Term ends January 2031.
Not on the 2026 ballot. The seat is next up in 2030.
Raised: campaign receipts in the 2019-2024 term, from FEC filings. Stock trades: every trade disclosed on a periodic report, ranked against the Senate. Floor votes: the roll calls Curia has recorded for Sanders on the bills it reads in plain language, including rolls they missed. Bills written: measures Sanders sponsored in the 119th Congress. The median is the middle sitting member of the Senate. The Senate has no median for money raised: each senator's campaign covers a different window.
Campaign money
Receipts in the 2019-2024 term
- Small donors
- 63%$22.7M
- Large donors
- 29%$10.4M
- Bundled
- <1%$1K
- PACs
- <1%$0.1M
- Other
- 8%$3.1M
- The median senatorShare raised from small donors
- 19%
- PAC and bundled moneyFrom every organization on file
- $91K
Stock trades
No stock trades disclosed
On Senate periodic transaction reports since 2014
Periodic transaction reports, which the STOCK Act asks for within 45 days of most trades in individual stocks and bonds. Trades in qualifying funds are reported only once a year, on the annual disclosure, and are not counted here. Some reports filed on paper are not read here yet, so the Senate’s own index is the complete record.
- Assets disclosedOn the 2025 annual filing
- $662K to $1.8M
Votes
Floor votes on the bills Curia reads, newest first
Bills written
As sponsor in the 119th Congress, latest step first
Issues
Cosponsored or voted for
- 5 of 10
- 1 of 6
- 1 of 5
- 5 of 9
- 0 of 5
- 0 of 7
The polled measures are the key bills behind the issues Americans care about most, where a poll shows what each party’s voters want. A row counts Sanders’s floor vote where one exists and cosponsorship otherwise, on the measures the Senate can act on. No recorded action is not opposition. Each issue opens in the Issues lens with every bill and how both parties split.
Sanders among the Senate
Sanders votes further left than 98% of the Senate.
Source: DW-NOMINATE, Voteview at UCLA, 119th Congress
Each mark is one of the 100 senators sitting today, placed by how often they vote with each other rather than by anything we think of them. DW-NOMINATE, the standard academic measure, computed by Voteview at UCLA over the 119th Congress and read here as of August 2026. It is built only from recorded votes: 822 of them for Sanders. It says who votes together, not who is right.
Committees
In the 119th Congress
- Budget
- Environment and Public Works
- Finance
- Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsRanking Member
- Veterans’ Affairs
Voting in Vermont
General election
November 3, 2026
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Reach Sanders’s office
- Office phone202-224-5141
- Email the officeEmail Sanders
- Washington office332 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
A staffed line and the official contact form; members do not publish direct numbers.
Cosponsored or voted for 6 of the 10 measures their own party’s voters want.
How the grade works, and where everyone stands →ACosponsored or voted for 6 of the 10 measures their own party’s voters want.
How the grade works, and where everyone stands →Curia grade
3 of 6
Reforms Sanders cosponsored, of the 6 with a current bill
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Campaign money
Raised, 2019-2024 term
$36.3M
- Cash on handAt the end of the 2019-2024 term
- $10.7M
63% of the money Sanders raised came from small donors.
- Small donors
- 63%
- $22.7M
- Large donors
- 29%
- $10.4M
- Bundled
- <1%
- $1K
- PACs
- <1%
- $0.1M
- Other
- 8%
- $3.1M
Everything that is not small-donor, large-donor, or PAC money. Mostly money transferred in from committees the candidate authorized, such as joint fundraising committees, which report their own donors to the FEC.
Total Other
$3.1M8% of receipts
- Transfers from joint fundraising and other authorized committees
- 6%$2.0M
- Self-funding
- 0%$0
- Party committee money
- 0%$0
- Refunds, offsets, miscellaneous
- 3%$1.1M
FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2019-2024 term. “Small” means contributions from donors who gave $200 or less in total, which the FEC does not require to be itemized.
This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.
Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans and other money in its base, and reads lower than figures that divide only by individual money.
FEC filings read November 1, 2026.
Against the Senate median
- Small-donor share
- 63%vs 19% Senate median
- PAC share
- <1%vs 13% Senate median
PACs and bundled gifts
2019-2024 term, largest first.
An organization reaches a member two ways. Its own PAC writes a direct check. And it bundles: it gathers individual donations from its supporters and routes them through its conduit. Both count here as one “organized” total. The bundled part is already inside the individual giving shown in the funding mix above. Here it is regrouped by the organization that gathered it, so you can see who did the organizing.
Money an organization gave through its PAC or bundled from its people to Sanders’s campaign, the 2019-2024 term, largest first. Showing the top 15 of 20 organizations with a stake. Source: FEC filings, as of November 2026.
Industries
Organized money, by the industry of the group that gave it
$91Korganized, every industry below
- Labor66%$61K
- Leadership & Ideological19%$17K
- Health & Pharma11%$10K
- Pro-Israel4%$4K
Each organization is grouped by industry from its FEC name, which is approximate. This is the same organized money as the list above, regrouped by industry.
PAC figures are contributions to Sanders’s campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee’s name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.
Outside spending
No outside group has filed spending for or against Sanders this term.
Trips paid by others
Since 2021
- Aug 1, 2026, staffLondon, United Kingdom | Oxford, United Kingdom
Paid by Employee Ownership Foundation
- Aug 3, 2025, staffLondon, United Kingdom | Oxford, United Kingdom
Paid by Employee Ownership Foundation
- May 22, 2025, SandersDublin
Paid by Robert Tressell Festival
- May 22, 2025, staffDublin, Ireland | the Committee. | to the traveler’s official or representational duties. | political engagement between Irish, | common heritage, challenges, and how cooperation can benefit | President, labor historians, and trade unionists to explore how the
Paid by Robert Tressell Festival
- Dec 9, 2024, staff
Paid by institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School
Travel a private sponsor paid for, filed by Sanders’s office with the House or Senate ethics office, by Sanders or by staff. Newest first.
Dark money disclosure
84%
Support for the question asked
Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.
Voters asked: A law that requires all organizations that spend money on federal campaigns to disclose their major donors and requires online political ads to say who paid for them
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Stock trades
No stock trades disclosed
On Senate periodic transaction reports since 2014
Periodic transaction reports, which the STOCK Act asks for within 45 days of most trades in individual stocks and bonds. Trades in qualifying funds are reported only once a year, on the annual disclosure, and are not counted here. Some reports filed on paper are not read here yet, so the Senate’s own index is the complete record.
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Income beyond salary
Each figure is at least what the forms allow.
Average a year
$235,728
13 of 35 years counted
Latest year, 2025
$212,813
Median member, a year
$43,061
of 485 members
By year
The least each year’s forms allow, 1991 to 2025
Each column is one counted year, drawn at its floor: the smallest amount the form allows, so the true figure is this much or more. The mint column is the latest counted year. A dashed outline is a year in office that is not counted, never a zero.
Income by kind
Each kind’s share of the least the forms allow, 2013 to 2025.
- Books and royalties97%$2,980,766
- Pensions2%$70,899
- Investment income1%$12,810
Outside pay is read line by line from the form and grouped by the filer’s own type word, to the dollar. Investment income is reported in ranges, so its row counts the smallest amount each range allows: the true figure is this much or more. Only counted years enter. A kind with nothing reported has no row. Social Security is its own kind and is drawn in Other.
Who paid
The exact amounts printed on the forms, added across the years each payer appears.
- Macmillan$2,124,500
3 years, 2016 to 2018, books
- Penguin Random House$837,500
5 years, 2020 to 2025, books
- City of Burlington Vermont$70,899
13 years, 2013 to 2025, pension
- Verso$15,270
5 years, 2016 to 2020, books
- Todd R. Lockwood Works$3,497
5 years, 2016 to 2020, books
Amounts are the exact figures printed on counted forms, added across the years each payer appears. Spelling variants of one payer are merged into a single name. Investment income is reported in ranges with no payer, so it does not appear here. A spouse’s or dependent’s pay is never counted, even where the form prints an amount.
Net worth
Disclosed assets and liabilities, each as the range Sanders’s 2025 annual filing allows, never netted.
Disclosed assets
$662K to $1.8M
as ranges on 29 line items, plus 4 without a dollar value
Disclosed liabilities
$200K to $500K
as ranges on 2 line items
The average adds each counted year’s smallest possible amount beyond salary and divides by the years counted. A year not counted is left out, never counted as zero. Outside pay is exact; investment income is reported in ranges and counts at least its lowest end. The typical member is the median of the 485 members’ own yearly averages. Joint, spouse and dependent holdings stay combined as filed. Tax-deferred accounts alone give no income amount.
The annual rate set by law for the latest year in office: $174,000. A first year is paid by days, so it is smaller. Salary is separate from every figure beyond it.
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
Annual financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the House and the Secretary of the Senate; salary from the Congressional Research Service (97-1011).
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The votes Sanders cast on the bills this site reads and writes up, not every roll call the chamber took. A position is the member’s own recorded vote on that bill’s passage. Broke with party marks a vote cast against the majority of Sanders’s own party; it is never set for a vote of present, a missed vote, an independent, or a party evenly split. Each party’s bar fills with the share of its members who voted yea, beside its yea and nay count. A not voting mark means Sanders was not recorded on that roll call. Members miss votes for many reasons, from travel to illness to leadership duties.
House Clerk and Senate roll call records, joined to the bills this site decodes. Every row opens to a plain summary of the bill, a link to where every member stood, and the bill on Congress.gov.
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Measures Sanders sponsored
Introduced in the 119th Congress, February 2025 to September 2026, latest stage date first.
Referred unless marked
- S. 5493
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
Sep 23, 2026 - S. 5384
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Sep 14, 2026 - S. 5280
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
Aug 6, 2026 - S. 5284
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
Aug 6, 2026
The sponsor is the member who introduced the measure, a different act from cosponsoring somebody else’s. A resolution that its chamber, or both chambers, agreed to has finished its process and is filed under Adopted.
Where the stage and place are the same for the rows shown, a row gives the number of members listed as cosponsors of the measure in the same bulk data instead.
The stage on each measure is the furthest point the record states it reached, and the date is when it reached it. A measure that stops at a stage has not necessarily ended: text is regularly folded into another vehicle that moves on under a different number, and the record against this number simply stops being written. Nothing here counts, names or ranks what did not happen.
Committee stages come from dated committee activities. Passage, presentation and veto stages come from the measure’s own actions; law records identify enactment. The date beside the bill number belongs to the stage shown below.
Source: govinfo BILLSTATUS bulk data for the 119th Congress, as of 2026-10-31, with the sponsor of record from the same bulk data and committee names from the House and Senate committee rosters. Download this list as JSON, the sponsorship and stage record, free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with attribution.
Lobbying on Sanders’s bills
51 of 56 bills named
Lobbying reports (LD-2) whose issue text names one of Sanders’s bills by number, counted as a floor: a report may describe a bill without its number. Most named first. Source: the Senate lobbying disclosure database.
Sponsored and cosponsored
533 measures in the 119th Congress: 56 sponsored, 477 cosponsored.
Cosponsoring puts a member’s name on a text. It is a public position, not a vote, and not a promise of one.
Most cosponsorships are signed when the measure is introduced; a row says so only when the name was added later, or withdrawn.
A policy area that does not appear here is one Sanders has not put a name on in this Congress. That is silence, not opposition, and it is left blank rather than counted.
The Library of Congress files each measure under one policy area; the shares cover the 533 of 533 measures on this record that carry one. It adds finer legislative subjects to only part of the corpus: the subjects cover 95 of 533, and show the 10 most common of 245.
Source: govinfo BILLSTATUS bulk data for the 119th Congress, rows from January 7, 2025 to September 30, 2026. Archives downloaded October 31, 2026. Newest source record by type: HCONRES 2026-10-30; HJRES 2026-10-31; HR 2026-10-31; HRES 2026-10-31; S 2026-10-31; SCONRES 2026-10-29; SJRES 2026-10-29; SRES 2026-10-31.
The 10 most common of 245 subjects, on the 95 of 533 measures the Library labels in detail.
- Congressional tributes20
- Congressional oversight19
- Commemorative events and holidays15
- Administrative law and regulatory procedures13
- Members of Congress12
- Elementary and secondary education11
- Senate11
- Racial and ethnic relations9
- Government information and archives8
- Government studies and investigations8
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One reform at a time
Where Sanders stands on the six reforms with a current bill. Prior matching cosponsorships are included.
Each card pairs a single reform with what Sanders's own party's voters say about it. A filled dot means Sanders cosponsored a bill. An open dot means no public position, which is not a vote against.
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Sanders on the issues
Cosponsored or voted for
Not on record unless marked
Extend ACA Subsidies Three Years
Extends the enhanced Affordable Care Act premium tax credits through 2028. Monthly premiums stay lower for people who buy their own coverage on the marketplace.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 2%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.Fund HSAs Instead of Subsidies
The Senate Republicans' alternative. Instead of subsidizing insurers, the government puts cash into people's Health Savings Accounts, plus cost-sharing help, for those on bronze, catastrophic, and silver plans.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 0%, Republicans 4%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.Make ACA Subsidies Permanent
Makes the enhanced ACA premium tax credits permanent. More people qualify for marketplace subsidies, and the subsidies stay larger, for good.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 98%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.Rein In Drug Middlemen
Reins in the pharmacy benefit managers who sit between drugmakers and pharmacies. It curbs tactics like “spread pricing,” requires PBMs to pass manufacturer rebates through to health plans, and unlinks their pay from a drug's list price.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 27%, Republicans 30%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.- Lead sponsor
Benchmark Drug Prices to Other Countries
Compares brand-name drug prices against what five peer countries pay. If a U.S. price is judged “excessive,” the government strips the drug's market exclusivity and licenses generic competitors to force the price down.
Cosponsored it, share of today’s members
Democrats 16%, Republicans 0%. Cosponsored it, share of today’s members.
1 to 5 of 102 more measures exist only in the House, so they are not shown here.
How Sanders has acted on the key bills behind the issues Americans care about most: a floor vote where one exists, and cosponsorship otherwise. Only measures the Senate can act on are counted. Open an issue to see each bill, Sanders’s position on it and how both parties split. No recorded action is not opposition.
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Sanders on reform
Cosponsored 3 of the 6 reforms with a current bill. The seventh has no bill this Congress and is not counted. Not on record is not opposition.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 84%, Republicans 75%, Independents 81%
Verasight for the Brennan Center for Justice (an advocacy organization), Apr-May 2026
Voters asked: A constitutional amendment establishing that the federal and state governments may regulate and limit contributions to campaigns and campaign spending, including by placing greater limits on corporations than on individuals
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 88%, Republicans 85%, Independents 84%
Verasight for the Brennan Center for Justice (an advocacy organization), Apr-May 2026
Voters asked: A law that requires all organizations that spend money on federal campaigns to disclose their major donors and requires online political ads to say who paid for them
- Not on record
Open Primaries
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 79%, Republicans 65%, Independents 70%Emerson College / RealClear, commissioned by Unite America (an advocacy organization), Jan 2026
Voters asked: States should be required to hold open primaries where all voters can participate regardless of party registration.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 76%, Republicans 57%, Independents 72%
Noble Predictive Insights for Common Cause (an advocacy organization), Sept 2025
Voters asked: Do you think it is good or bad for the country when one political party controls how voting districts are drawn?
- Not on record
Ban Stock Trading
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 88%, Republicans 87%, Independents 81%U. of Maryland PPC, May 2023
Voters asked: Prohibit Members of Congress (in the House and Senate) and the family that lives with them, from trading stocks in individual companies. They would still be allowed to buy or sell shares of mutual funds or index funds that include stocks in numerous companies. In conclusion, do you favor or oppose this proposal?
- Not on record
Extend Cool-Off Period
Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 67%, Republicans 65%, Independents not reportedU. of Maryland PPC, June 2022
Voters asked: Extend the period former Members of Congress must wait before lobbying Congress to five years.
- Voters in favor of the question asked: Democrats 74%, Republicans 71%, Independents not reported
U. of Maryland PPC, June 2022
Voters asked: Ban former senior Executive Branch officials from lobbying on behalf of a foreign government for the rest of their life.
Each marked row names what the member did: sponsored or cosponsored a bill carrying the reform, signed a discharge petition to force one to the floor, or cosponsored a prior version in a previous Congress while still serving today. Not on record means there is no documented signal. The member may still support or oppose; we have no evidence either way. Floor votes are not yet wired in, so nobody is marked Opposes.
Several reforms have bills carried almost entirely by one party. That makes the headline percentage a measure of cosponsorship on these specific bills, not a measure of underlying agreement with the reform. A 0% figure for one party often means “has not cosponsored this vehicle,” not “opposes the reform.”
A matching prior Congress cosponsorship also counts. No documented cosponsorship is not opposition.
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One reform at a time
Where Sanders stands on the six reforms with a current bill. Prior matching cosponsorships are included.
Each card pairs a single reform with what Sanders's own party's voters say about it. A filled dot means Sanders cosponsored a bill. An open dot means no public position, which is not a vote against.
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