Sponsored
Politician
Politician
Party
Independent
Chamber
Senate
State
VT
In office since
2007
Next election
2030
Votes recorded
890
Total votes
890
Missed
63 (7.1%)
Committees
5
Legislative data from the official House/Senate roll-call record via Voteview (UCLA) and the unitedstates/congress-legislators dataset.
No contradictions identified between Bernie Sanders's stated positions and their recorded votes.
Methodology: stated positions are AI-compiled from cited public sources; conflicts cross-reference them against the official roll-call record. Consistency = 100 − 12 per significant − 6 per moderate − 2 per minor conflict. Severity is editorial-model judgment — every item links its underlying vote so you can decide for yourself.
Supports a large-scale 'Green New Deal' to address climate change, create jobs, and tax oil companies while opposing fossil fuel expansion.
Sponsored Green New Deal for Public Housing Act advancing climate and jobs goals.
Supports carbon tax and cutting U.S. emissions by 40 percent by 2030.
Sponsored Green New Deal legislation aligning with emissions and tax goals.
Supports raising the federal minimum wage to $15/hour and reducing economic inequality between the wealthy and working Americans.
No votes or bills address minimum wage increases or inequality reduction.
Supports expanding health coverage and reducing prescription drug costs, citing millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans.
No record of action on expanding coverage or lowering drug costs.
Supports comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, ending mass deportations, and protecting DACA recipients, while opposing fully open borders.
No direct votes or bills on reform, DACA, or deportations.
Opposes corporate donations in his own campaigns and supports limiting corporate and interest-group spending in elections.
No evidence on corporate donations or spending limits.
Identifies as a democratic socialist advocating an economy that works for all rather than concentrating wealth among the few.
No record items confirm or contradict democratic socialist stance.
Supports Medicare for All single-payer system to treat health care as a human right.
No votes or bills on Medicare for All or single-payer system.
Supports tax system requiring wealthiest families and largest corporations to pay their fair share.
Record shows no action on raising taxes for wealthy or corporations.
Supports expanding Social Security to ensure no one lives in poverty.
No bills or votes on expanding Social Security benefits.
Supports free universal preschool and free tuition at public colleges and universities.
No record of support for free preschool or college tuition.
Supports constitutional amendment to reverse Citizens United and public funding of elections.
No votes or sponsored measures on Citizens United amendment or public funding.
Opposes unconditional U.S. military aid to Netanyahu government and calls for conditions on aid.
Iran-related votes do not address aid conditions to Netanyahu government.
Supports restoring abortion rights in every state.
No votes or bills on restoring abortion rights.
Supports increasing federal minimum wage to $15 an hour.
No record items on raising minimum wage to $15.
S. 5284 — Green New Deal for Public Housing Act
2026-08-06 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
S. 5280 — Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act
2026-08-06 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
S. 5185 — Audit the Pentagon Act
2026-07-30 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.
S. 5026 — Childhood Diabetes Reduction Act of 2026
2026-07-28 · Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 531.
S. 4214 — Artificial Intelligence Data Center Moratorium Act
2026-06-24 · Referred to the Committee on Energy and Commerce, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.