Bernard Sanders
ISen. VT · U.S. Senate · 12 terms
Political perspective
from the voting recordOn the standard liberal–conservative scale, Sanders sits more conservative than 2% of the Senate and more liberal than 97%. This is a DW-NOMINATE score — derived purely from how they vote, not an opinion.
We link to what Sanderssays they stand for so you can hold it against the record above. We don't put words in anyone's mouth or declare a promise “kept” or “broken” — where there's no published, structured position to compare, we leave it to you rather than invent a verdict.
Contact
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Campaign money
live· 2026 cycle“From PACs” is corporate, industry, and union political-committee money — a proxy for special-interest funding. Totals via the FEC.
Where the money goes
live· 2026 cycleSanders's campaign has spent $12.4M across 1,698 reported disbursements.
- Other$4.3M 35%
- Payroll & admin$3.3M 27%
- Events & fundraising$1.9M 15%
- Advertising & media$1.8M 14%
- Travel & lodging$585K 5%
- Consulting & research$481K 4%
- AMERICAN EXPRESS$2.0M
- AISLE 518 STRATEGIES, LLC$1.9M
- GUSTO$1.1M
- ACTBLUE$923K
- WITH THE RANKS, LLC$442K
- VENTURA JETS LLC$354K
- DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS COMMUNITY DISTRICTDETROIT, MI · 2 payments$15K
- THE GREY JAYBURLINGTON, VT · 2 payments$6K
- VTSU RANDOLPH/WILLISTONRANDOLPH CENTER, VT · 2 payments$5K
- WHITSONS FOOD SERVICENEW YORK, NY$5K
- WINDSOR SOUTHEAST SUWINDSOR, VT$5K
- TRIO COMMUNITY MEALSATLANTA, GA$4K
- VERMONT STATE UNIVERSITYJOHNSON, VT$3K
- MAUSD-ANWSD FOOD SERVICE COOPERATIVEBRISTOL, VT$3K
These are the venues, caterers, and hotels the campaign paidfor events — the money trail to where fundraising happened, with the vendor's city and state. It is not a guest list or attendance: who came, who hosted, and “what the crowd was like” aren't in any public record, so we don't guess at them.
Categories are grouped by keyword from the free-text purpose each campaign reports to the FEC, so the split is a guide, not an audit. Otheris spending whose reported purpose didn't clearly fit a category — campaigns describe disbursements inconsistently. Totals are for the candidate's campaign committees this cycle; see the FEC for the line-by-line record.
Background
Represents Vermont · age 85 · from Brooklyn.
Bernard Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. A self-described democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the 21st-century American progressive movement.
Biography from Wikipedia & Wikidata (public, CC BY-SA). Family is spouse and children only.
Stock trades
Senators disclose their trades through the Senate's system. See Sanders's filings:
Committees
liveWhat they're assigned to work on.
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsRanking Member
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Senate Committee on Finance
- Senate Committee on the Budget
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
via congress-legislators committee data.
Who they're up against
Candidates who have filed with the FEC for this Senate seat— who's challenging them now, and who they faced last time.
Last election
· 2024 cycle- Gerald MalloyRepublicanChallenger$663Kraised ↗
- Matt For HillLIBChallenger$16Kraised ↗
+ 3 other minor candidates with little or no money raised.
Candidates and money raised from FEC filings (bulk candidate summaries). Short bios are quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists — never invented; candidates without a sourced bio show their FEC record only.
How Bernard actually voted · last 15 bills live
- YeaAugust 5, 2026S.J.Res. 187On the Motion to Proceed
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN730-11On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Nomination
- NayAugust 5, 2026PN932On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 3, 2026H.R. 6500On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 30, 2026S.Res. 817On the Resolution
- YeaJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 181On the Motion to Discharge
- YeaJuly 30, 2026S.J.Res. 199On the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 29, 2026S.Res. 817On the Cloture Motion
- NayJuly 29, 2026H.R. 5334On the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 28, 2026H.R. 5334On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayJuly 28, 2026PN1092On the Nomination
- NayJuly 27, 2026PN1092On the Cloture Motion
- NayJuly 23, 2026PN999-5On the Nomination
- NayJuly 23, 2026PN999-6On the Nomination
Real roll-call votes from the U.S. House Clerk. “Missed” = recorded as Not Voting.
Congressional calendar · next 12 days
The public House legislative schedule — the same for every member, not anyone's personal whereabouts. No flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking.
Every figure here is real and sourced: identity, party, seat, term history, committees and contact (congress-legislators); vote attendance, missed votes & how they voted (U.S. Senate (senate.gov), last 100 roll calls through August 5, 2026); campaign money raised and spent (FEC); stock-trade disclosures (U.S. House Clerk Periodic Transaction Reports); declared election opponents & the money they raised (FEC candidate filings), with opponent bios quoted from Wikipedia or Ballotpedia where a confident match exists; ideological placement (DW-NOMINATE, voteview.com) and party-unity (computed from the roll calls above); biography (Wikidata + Wikipedia); the 2026 session calendar (official schedule). Nothing on this page is invented. wheresmyguy? carries no flight data, home locations, or real-time tracking. Time-stamped information is delayed at least 4 hours by design — wheresmyguy? is never a real-time tracker.