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U.S. Senator from Vermont
Born
September 8, 1941
Age 84
Phone
(202) 224-5141
Office
332 Dirksen Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20510, Washington 20515
Congress Member Profile|U.S. Senator|I|Vermont

Bernard Sanders

Bernard "Bernie" Sanders is an American politician and activist serving as the senior United States senator from Vermont, a seat he has held since 2007. He is the longest-serving independent in U.S. congressional history, but maintains a close relationship with the Democratic Party, having caucused with House and Senate Democrats for most of his congressional career and sought the party's presidential nomination in 2016 and 2020. Sanders has been viewed as one of the main leaders of the modern American progressive movement.

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Voting Record — 783
Yes25%
No68%
Present0%
Not Voting7%
Party align100%
Cross-party0%
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Bernard's ATmosphere Activity
20 recent posts · 46 sponsored · 292 cosponsored
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Recent ATmosphere posts, sponsorships, and cosponsorships.

Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 27(source)
Netanyahu's illegal war has killed 50,000 Palestinians. Now, Trump wants to force out 2 million more to build a billionaire's playground in Gaza. That is ethnic cleansing — and it’s a war crime. Next week, I will force votes to block $8.8 billion in new arms sales to Israel.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 26(source)
Our Founding Fathers were no dummies. As James Madison wrote in Federalist No. 47: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands...may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” This is what Trump wants. We will stop him.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 26(source)
The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor. Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 25(source)
Last year, I launched an investigation into the outrageous price Novo Nordisk charges for Wegovy. Novo now says it will cut Wegovy’s price for the uninsured from $1,349 to $499. This is a modest step forward. But Novo must do better. Wegovy can be purchased for $92 in the U.K.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 25(source)
I was pleased to meet air traffic controllers from Vermont today. Whether you’re flying from BTV or one of our state’s regional airports, these are some of the people keeping you safe. Let me thank the air controllers for the difficult and important work they do.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 25(source)
I do not think in the year 2025 that we should continue to accept a reality which sees women paid just $0.75 for every $1 men are paid for doing the same job. If we want to achieve economic justice in this country — that means equal pay for equal work.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 25(source)
Our for-profit health care system is not only broken & cruel, it's extremely wasteful. While we spend billions on stock buybacks, CEO compensation & denying needed care, Medicare for All would save $650 billion & 68,000 lives a year per CBO & Yale University. Let's get it done.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
When 22% of Americans are trying to survive on less than $15,000 a year & half are trying to get by on less than $30,000 we cannot allow Trump to cut Social Security. We must expand and strengthen Social Security by scrapping the cap and making the wealthy pay their fair share.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Trump says millions of people who are 140-360 years old get Social Security checks. A disgraceful lie that's designed to undermine our faith in Social Security.   Well over 99% of Social Security checks go to people who earned them. Nobody who is over 140 gets Social Security.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Elon Musk absurdly claimed Social Security is the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time. A lie.   FACT: Social Security has paid every benefit owed to every eligible American on time for nearly 90 years and keeps over 27 million people out of poverty.   Some “Ponzi scheme.”
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Trump's Commerce Secretary, a billionaire, said that if Social Security stopped sending Social Security checks this month the only people who would complain would be "fraudsters" because his 94-year old mother-in-law would just think "something got messed up."
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
The Acting Director of the Social Security Administration threatened to shut down Social Security altogether and stop sending Social Security checks to anyone after a judge ordered him to stop providing the private information of Social Security recipients to DOGE.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Trump is taking away the right to call the 1-800# to apply for Social Security benefits, closing Social Security field offices & laying off up to half its staff. 30,000 people die waiting for Social Security disability benefits. How many more will die due to this cruel policy?
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Trump says he's not going to cut Social Security. Really?   Let's add up all the ways Trump is undermining Social Security, the most successful government program in history, in order to hand it over to his billionaire friends on Wall Street.   A thread:
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 24(source)
Netanyahu has not allowed any aid into Gaza in 22 days. He broke the ceasefire, resuming a bombing campaign that has killed more than 50,000 people. Now he is threatening a long-term occupation of Gaza. NO MORE MILITARY AID TO NETANYAHU’S WAR MACHINE.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 23(source)
Unique to America, our health care system is designed not to make people well, but to make CEOs & wealthy stockholders incredibly rich. The result: We have the highest infant mortality rate of any wealthy country on earth. How cruel, how immoral is that? We need Medicare for All.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 22(source)
Medicare for All isn't radical. What's radical is that we are the only major country not to guarantee health care as a human right. Every other major country figured out years ago how to provide health care to all at a much lower cost. Please don't tell me we can't do the same.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 21(source)
Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire. Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would. They're not fraudsters. They earned it. How out of touch are you not to realize that?
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BREAKING: Trump's billionaire Commerce Secretary says that seniors won't care if they don't get their Social Security checks — and that anyone who does complain is a fraudster.
Senator Bernie Sanders@sanders.senate.govMar 21(source)
The United States of America is the only major country on earth that does not guarantee health care as a human right. The result: We rank dead last among wealthy nations in life expectancy. We must end that international embarrassment. Yes. We need Medicare for All.
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Voting History
783 total votes
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Recent roll calls with party-majority context so it is easier to scan how this member tends to vote.

DateBillQuestionPositionParty MajAlign?Result
2025-10-22—End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (52-45)
2025-10-22—End debateNO——Cloture Motion Agreed to (60-39)
2025-10-22H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (54-46, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-21—Confirm nomineeNONO✓Nomination Confirmed (53-46)
2025-10-21—End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-46)
2025-10-21—End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-46)
2025-10-21—Confirm nomineeNO——Nomination Confirmed (66-32)
2025-10-20H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNOT_VOTINGYES—Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (50-43, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-16H.R. 4016 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNONO✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (50-44, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-16—End debateNO——Cloture Motion Agreed to (62-34)
2025-10-16H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (51-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-15H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (51-44, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-14H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (49-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Final passageNO——Bill Passed (77-20, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYESYES✓Amendment Rejected (47-50, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYES——Amendment Rejected (10-88, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYESYES✓Amendment Rejected (46-52, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYESYES✓Amendment Rejected (47-50, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYESYES✓Amendment Rejected (46-50, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentNONO✓Amendment Rejected (51-46, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYES——Amendment Rejected (53-43, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2296 (119th)Vote on amendmentYES——Amendment Rejected (14-83, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09—Confirm nomineeNONO✓Nomination Confirmed (50-47)
2025-10-09H.J. Res. 106 (119th)Approve resolutionNONO✓Joint Resolution Passed (50-46)
2025-10-09H.J. Res. 106 (119th)Begin considerationNONO✓Motion to Proceed Agreed to (50-47)
2025-10-09H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (54-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-09S. 2882 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateYESYES✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (47-50, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-08H.J. Res. 105 (119th)Approve resolutionNONO✓Joint Resolution Passed (50-45)
2025-10-08S.J. Res. 83 (119th)Motion to Discharge S.J.Res. 83YESYES✓Motion to Discharge Rejected (48-51)
2025-10-08S.J. Res. 71 (119th)Approve resolutionYESYES✓Joint Resolution Defeated (47-51)
2025-10-08H.J. Res. 105 (119th)Begin considerationNONO✓Motion to Proceed Agreed to (51-47)
2025-10-08—End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (50-47)
2025-10-08H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (54-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-08S. 2882 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateYESYES✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (47-52, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-08H.J. Res. 104 (119th)Approve resolutionNONO✓Joint Resolution Passed (52-47)
2025-10-07H.J. Res. 104 (119th)Begin considerationNONO✓Motion to Proceed Agreed to (50-47)
2025-10-07S. Res. 412 (119th)Confirm nomineeNONO✓Nomination Confirmed (51-47)
2025-10-06S. Res. 412 (119th)End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (50-45)
2025-10-06H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (52-42, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-06S. 2882 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateYESYES✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (45-50, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-03H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (54-44, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-03S. 2882 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateYESYES✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (46-52, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-03S. Res. 412 (119th)Approve resolutionNONO✓Resolution Agreed to (51-46)
2025-10-01S. Res. 412 (119th)End debateNONO✓Cloture Motion Agreed to (53-46)
2025-10-01—Confirm nomineeNONO✓Nomination Confirmed (52-45)
2025-10-01—End debateNOT_VOTINGNO—Cloture Motion Agreed to (52-47)
2025-10-01H.R. 5371 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateNO——Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (55-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-10-01S. 2882 (119th)End filibuster to begin debateYESYES✓Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected (47-53, 3/5 majority required)
2025-09-30H.R. 5371 (119th)Final passageNO——Bill Defeated (55-45, 3/5 majority required)
2025-09-30S. 2882 (119th)Final passageYESYES✓Bill Defeated (47-53, 3/5 majority required)

Alignment stats consider only votes where a clear yes/no majority existed for the legislator's party. Cross-party marks divergence where the vote matched the opposite party majority. ↔ indicates cross-party divergence.

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