Politician
United States Senator from Vermont
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 comprehensive immigration reform with a path to citizenship, ending mass deportations, and protecting DACA recipients, while opposing fully open borders.
Supported DACA protections and limits on deportations in reconciliation amendments.
Opposes corporate donations in his own campaigns and supports limiting corporate and interest-group spending in elections.
Voted to limit Super PAC contributions from corporate and interest groups.
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 direct votes on expanding coverage or drug costs despite some procedural health items.
Supports a large-scale 'Green New Deal' to address climate change, create jobs, and tax oil companies while opposing fossil fuel expansion.
No votes or bills on Green New Deal, oil taxes, or fossil fuel expansion.
Supports making public college tuition-free, framing education as an economic right.
No votes or bills on tuition-free public college.
Identifies as a democratic socialist advocating an economy that works for all rather than concentrating wealth among the few.
No votes or bills demonstrate democratic socialist economic policies.
S. 5280 — Guaranteed Paid Vacation Act
2026-08-06 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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. 5185 — Audit the Pentagon Act
2026-07-30 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services.