Sen. Bernard “Bernie” Sanders

State:: Vermont
Party:: Independent

Elected Positions

Dates	Title	Representing
2007-2019	Senator	Vermont
1991-2006	Representative	Vermont's At-Large District

Track Him

Official Website: http://www.sanders.senate.gov
@sensanders

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Sponsorship Analysis

Sanders is a left-leaning Independent according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

Use this chart to compare Sanders to other members of the Senate on leadership and ideology.

This chart is based on principal components analysis for ideology and PageRank for leadership. See analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Bernard “Bernie” Sanders sits on the following committees:

Chairman, Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
- Chairman, Subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging
- Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families
Joint Economic Committee
Senate Committee on the Budget
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
- Member, Subcommittee on Energy
- Member, Subcommittee on National Parks
- Member, Subcommittee on Water and Power
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
- Member, Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety
- Member, Subcommittee on Green Jobs and the New Economy
- Member, Subcommittee on Transportation and Infrastructure

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Some of Sanders’s most recently sponsored bills include...

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Voting Record

From Jan 2007 to May 2013, Sanders missed 32 of 1,973 roll call votes, which is 1.6%. This is better than the median of 1.6% among the lifetime records of senators currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

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Time Period	Votes Elligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
2007 Jan-Mar	126	1	0.8%	35^th
2007 Apr-Jun	112	1	0.9%	38^th
2007 Jul-Sep	119	1	0.8%	25^th
2007 Oct-Dec	85	2	2.4%	64^th
2008 Jan-Mar	85	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Apr-Jun	77	1	1.3%	26^th
2008 Jul-Sep	47	0	0.0%	0^th
2008 Oct-Dec	6	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Jan-Mar	118	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	43^rd
2009 Jul-Sep	89	0	0.0%	0^th
2009 Oct-Dec	94	2	2.1%	68^th
2010 Jan-Mar	108	3	2.8%	75^th
2010 Apr-Jun	96	1	1.0%	38^th
2010 Jul-Sep	44	1	2.3%	55^th
2010 Nov-Dec	51	1	2.0%	42^nd
2011 Jan-Mar	46	4	8.7%	87^th
2011 Apr-Jun	58	3	5.2%	73^rd
2011 Jul-Sep	49	1	2.0%	50^th
2011 Oct-Dec	82	1	1.2%	41^st
2012 Jan-Mar	63	1	1.6%	59^th
2012 Apr-Jun	109	0	0.0%	0^th
2012 Jul-Sep	28	1	3.6%	55^th
2012 Nov-Dec	50	5	10.0%	87^th
2013 Jan-Jan	1	0	0.0%	0^th
2013 Jan-Mar	92	1	1.1%	55^th
2013 Apr-May	42	0	0.0%	0^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
Congressional Biographical Directory for elected positions
Congressional Pictorial Directory for the photo
THOMAS, for sponsored bills

May 23, 2013 10:38 a.m.