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Bernard Sanders

U.S. Senator · Vermont · Independent · Ranking Member, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 4, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
0.25· expected 0.95

Below expectations

Rank 92 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 18 minority-party ranking members

How far Sanders’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 54
  2. Action in committee 1
  3. Action beyond committee 1
  4. Passed chamber 0
  5. Became law 0

54 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 6 significant (got a roll call vote), 48 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

How Sanders’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Sanders.

Sanders in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

93/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 64 missed of 915

Voted on 851 of 915 roll calls; missed 64. Lower than 95% of senators.

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Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate D median 96 · Rank 4 of 47

Sided with the Democratic majority on 778 votes that split the parties. Higher than 80% of senators.

75%100%
3/ 100

Chamber median 9 · −6

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Lower than 98% of senators.

0%30%
−0.55

Democratic middle 80%: -0.51 to -0.23

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 56 (median 61) · cosponsored 477 (median 307.5), 342 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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