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U.S. Senator · Vermont
Bernard Sanders
IndependentState D+17119th Congress
Typical swing score36#65 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 · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 3 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: S. 356, S. 761, S. 2392.
Keeps them with Democrats · 3 signals
- Medium3rd most liberal of 47 Senate DemocratsDW-NOMINATE -0.546 vs. the Senate Democratic median of -0.356: 0.190 further from the Republicans. Unlikely to cross toward the Republicans; may still break with the party from the left.
- MediumVotes with Senate DemocratsNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Republicans: DW-NOMINATE -0.546 (party median -0.356; rank 45 of 47 by distance toward the Republicans); Heritage Action 0 (avg 0); LCV 94 (avg 96).
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 151–200 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 1608Department of Homeland Security Vehicular Terrorism Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 49
| Middle |
| H.R. 2035American Cargo for American Ships ActSummary on Congress.gov |