Sen. Sanders, Bernard

Independent · Vermont · Senate

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. Ideologically a democratic socialist, Sanders is regarded as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.

Voting record

• Participation: shows up to vote 99% of the time.
• Alignment with the district's political lean: 69.9%.
• Bills sponsored: 250; passed into law: 0.

Recent votes by Sen. Sanders, Bernard

• Voted Nay on Study health career training grant outcomes — Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
• Voted Yea on Tighten financial sanctions on Russia over Ukraine — CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
• Voted Yea on Increase Medicare and Medicaid payments to rural hospitals — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
• Voted Nay on Speaker reserves procedural placeholder for House — Secure the Border Act of 2023
• Voted Nay on Exempts active military pay from income tax — National Defense Authorization Act FY2024
• Voted Yea on Procedural placeholder reserved for Speaker — Lower Drug Costs Now Act
• Voted Nay on Raises passenger fees for airport improvements — Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
• Voted Nay on Speaker reserves bill number for future legislation — Parents Bill of Rights Act
• Voted Yea on Require Muslim Brotherhood foreign terrorist designation — Clean Energy for America Act
• Voted Yea on Eliminates funding for National Endowment for Humanities — Social Security Fairness Act
• Voted Yea on Extends federal funding through early 2025 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
• Voted Nay on Close loophole for large independent banks — Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
• Voted Yea on Shortens wetland disposal ban periods — FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
• Voted Nay on U.S. semiconductor and tech R&D investment surge — A bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes.
• Voted Nay on Farmers gain easier access to carbon credit markets — A bill to authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a program to reduce barriers to entry for farmers, ranchers, and private forest landowners in certain voluntary markets, and for other purposes.

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• Rep. Balint, Becca (Democrat)
• Sen. Welch, Peter (Democrat)

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