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U.S. Senator, Vermont · Independent

Bernard Sanders

88 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.

915 recorded votes

  • Voted for24126.3%
  • Voted against61066.7%
  • Did not vote647.0%
93.0%
of the votes they could cast
88
statements indexed
3,692
words on the floor

Turned up for 93.0% of the votes they could have cast, below the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.

In plain English

Sanders voted 93 times out of every 100 they could. That is less than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.

They vote the same way as Edward J. Markey more than anyone else. The two agreed 99 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with Edward J. Markey. They agreed 99 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 8 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 4, 2007
Terms served
4 terms in the Senate
Previously
8 terms in the House
Current term
January 3, 2025 to January 3, 2031
Born
September 8, 1941

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Artificial intelligence, government funding and resolutions of congressional disapproval each account for six of Sanders's indexed remarks. Budget reconciliation, a consolidated appropriations act, a fentanyl bill and the One Big Beautiful Bill follow at three each, alongside a Vermont essay contest.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

88 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Bernard Sanders’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 88 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

The Senate takes 54 votes of this kind this Congress against the House's 391: its floor time goes to cloture motions and nominations, where a yes does not mean pass the thing. There is not enough here to set out.

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Bernard Sanders as speaking in 106 items of business across 62 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 915 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Senate lists Bernard Sanders. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 915 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Vermont seat in this chamber is held by Peter Welch.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.