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
- NaySeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Nomination
- NaySeptember 17, 2026PN999-4On the Cloture Motion
- NaySeptember 17, 2026S. 4668On the Motion to Proceed
- NaySeptember 15, 2026S. 4668On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NaySeptember 15, 2026H.R. 3633On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- MissedSeptember 15, 2026PN1093-3On the Nomination
- NaySeptember 14, 2026PN1093-3On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 8, 2026S. 5271On Cloture on the Motion to Proceed
- NayAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Nomination
- NayAugust 8, 2026PN1078On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 8, 2026H.R. 6500On Passage of the Bill
- YeaAugust 8, 2026On the Motion to Table S.Amdt. 6747 to S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Motion to Table
- NayAugust 7, 2026On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 6732 to H.R. 6500 (No short title on file)On the Cloture Motion
- NayAugust 7, 2026PN730-11On the Nomination
- NayAugust 7, 2026H.R. 5334On Passage of the Bill
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 September 17, 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.