Bernard (Bernie) Sanders

Independent - VT

Party: Independent

State: VT

Age: N/A

First Elected: 1991

Next Election: 2031

Current Term: 2025 - 2031

Most Recent Appearances

Hearings to examine the rising cost of health care, focusing on considering meaningful solutions for all Americans.

11/19/2025

Committee: Committee on Finance

Business meeting to consider the nominations of Arjun Mody, of New Jersey, to be Deputy Commissioner Social Security, Jeffrey Goettman, of Virginia, to be a Deputy United States Trade Representative (Africa, Western Hemisphere, Europe, the Middle East, Environment, Labor, and Industrial Competitiveness), with the Rank of Ambassador, Julie Callahan, of the District of Columbia, to be Chief Agricultural Negotiator, Office of the United States Trade Representative, with the rank of Ambassador, and Thomas Bell, of Virginia, to be Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services.

11/19/2025

Committee: Committee on Finance

Hearings to examine registered apprenticeship, focusing on scaling the workforce for the future.

11/5/2025

Committee: Committee on Education

Hearings to examine the future of biotech, focusing on maintaining U.S. competitiveness and lifesaving cures to patients.

10/29/2025

Committee: Committee on Education

Business meeting to consider S.2082, to amend the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to modify the definition of "production facility" to exclude an equipment or device capable of reprocessing spent nuclear fuel in a manner that does not separate plutonium from other transuranic elements, S.2235, to amend the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reauthorize the diesel emissions reduction program, S.2741, to establish within the Environmental Protection Agency the Office of Mountains, Deserts, and Plains, S.3022, to amend the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act to reauthorize certain Environmental Protection Agency programs, S.2110, to require the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to prepare a report on reuse and refill systems, S.2878, to reauthorize funding to monitor, assess, and research the Great Lakes Basin, S.287, to designate the Federal building located at 225 South Pierre Street in Pierre, South Dakota, as the "Marcella LeBeau Federal Building," and for other purposes, S.2319, to designate the Federal building located at 300 West Congress Street in Tucson, Arizona, as the "Raul M. Grijalva Federal Building", and the nominations of Jeffrey Hall, of Virginia, to be an Assistant Administrator, and Douglas Troutman, of Maryland, to be Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances, both of the Environmental Protection Agency, Ho Nieh, of Alabama, to be a Member of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Mitch Graves, and Jeff Hagood, both of Tennessee, Randall Jones, of Alabama, and Arthur Graham, of Florida, each to be a Member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Valley Authority, and 3 General Services Administration resolutions.

10/29/2025

Committee: Committee on Environment and Public Works