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U.S. Senator · Vermont
Bernard Sanders
IndependentState D+17119th Congress
Typical swing score36#68 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Bernard Sanders’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office332 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 18 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 18 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 138, S. 356, S. 410, S. 761, S. 2120 and 13 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 138 VA Home Loan Awareness Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 356 Secure Rural Schools Reauthorization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 410 Love Lives On Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 761 Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 2120 Older Americans Act Reauthorization Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2031
- Senate class
- Class 1
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 5, 2030
- Years in office
- 35.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and PensionsRanking MemberMinority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Education and the American FamilyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace SafetyEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Primary Health and Retirement SecurityEx Officio
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Sanders← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.546 is 0.19 to the left of the Senate Democratic median (-0.356).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Democratic average- 119th Congress0Senate Democratic average: 0 (n=47)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 701–750 of 2038 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 3385Lower Health Care Costs ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | No recorded vote | 41
| Middle |
| H.R. 30Preventing Violence Against Women by Illegal Aliens Act |