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Michael F. Bennet

Michael F. Bennet

Democratic · CO U.S. Senator

18 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2009

  • background Born November 28, 1964; an attorney with a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School
  • background Worked as a managing director at Anschutz Investment Company and as counsel to the U.S. deputy attorney general under Bill Clinton
  • background Served as chief of staff to Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper (2003-2005) and as superintendent of Denver Public Schools from 2005
  • role A Democrat, appointed to the U.S. Senate from Colorado in 2009 after Ken Salazar became Interior Secretary; elected in 2010 and reelected in 2016 and 2022
  • role Chaired the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for the 2014 cycle; became Colorado's senior senator in 2015
  • background Ran for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination (dropped out February 2020) and for governor of Colorado in 2026, losing the primary to Phil Weiser

Track record

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

  • 100.0%
    Roll-call participation →

    voted in 46 recorded roll calls

    Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

  • 82
    Bills sponsored →

    plus 392 cosponsored

    A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

  • 0
    Sponsored bills enacted →

    of 82 bills sponsored

    Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

  • 100%
    Party-unity voting

    votes with the party majority · on 26 party-line votes

    Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

  • 0%
    Cross-party voting

    votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

    The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

  • 0
    Documented positions →

    no positions documented yet

    Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

  • 9
    Committee assignments →

    committees and subcommittees

    Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Michael F. Bennet. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Voting record

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

100.0%
of Senate roll calls voted

Full voting record (46 roll calls) → · Congress 119 · based on 46 of 915 recorded roll calls

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Issue positions (3)

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

Contributions received

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $47,035 ·

Sponsored / cosponsored bills (200)

Data from Congress.gov

200
Page 1 of 8 · 200 bills
  • SRES 945A resolution designating November 7, 2026, as "National Bison Day".cosponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • S 5630A bill to amend the Mineral Leasing Act to ensure sufficient bonding and complete and timely reclamation of land and water disturbed by Federal and Indian oil and gas production, and for other purposes.sponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • S 5621A bill to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to clarify certain requirements relating to the Nonprofit Security Grant Program of the Department of Homeland Security, and for other purposes.sponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • SRES 947A resolution designating September 2026 as "National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month".cosponsoredSep 29, 2026
  • SRES 923A resolution expressing support for the designation of October 4 through October 10, 2026, as "National 4-H Week".cosponsoredSep 28, 2026
  • SRES 913A resolution relating to the death of the Honorable Nancy Kassebaum, former United States Senator for the State of Kansas.cosponsoredSep 27, 2026
  • S 5533Segal AmeriCorps Education Award Tax Relief Act of 2026sponsoredSep 23, 2026
  • S 5535A bill to require the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development to establish a national evictions database, and for other purposes.sponsoredSep 23, 2026
  • S 5539Affordability is Access Act of 2026cosponsoredSep 23, 2026
  • SRES 897A resolution honoring the life, service, and legacy of the Honorable Jon Llewellyn Kyl, former Senator for the State of Arizona.cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • S 5460Healthy Meals Help Kids Learn Act of 2026cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • S 5476A bill to impose sanctions with respect to foreign persons that have facilitated Israeli settlement construction in the E1 area of the West Bank.cosponsoredSep 22, 2026
  • SRES 870A resolution recognizing Hispanic Heritage Month and celebrating the heritage and culture of Latinos in the United States and the immense contributions of Latinos to the United States.cosponsoredSep 21, 2026
  • S 5444New Essential Education Discoveries Act of 2026sponsoredSep 16, 2026
  • SRES 857A resolution commemorating 1 year since the tragic act of violence on September 10, 2025, in Evergreen, Colorado, recognizing the victims, survivors, and responders, and expressing condolences and support to their families and their communities.sponsoredSep 15, 2026
  • SRES 854A resolution designating September 2026 as "National Voting Rights Month".cosponsoredSep 14, 2026
  • S 5390End Trump’s Tariff Tax ActcosponsoredSep 13, 2026
  • SRES 844A resolution honoring the lives and service of Emily Barker, Nicholas Hutcherson, Sydney Watson, Nathan Matthews, Nicholas Dale, and all those who serve on the front lines of wildland firefighting efforts in the United States.sponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • SRES 843A resolution expressing support for the designation of the first week of August 2026, as "National Community Health Center Week", encouraging all people of the United States to participate by visiting their local community health center, and celebrating the important partnership between community health centers and the communities they serve.cosponsoredAug 6, 2026
  • S 5300Honoring the Sacrifice of Troops in War Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5331Protect American Values Act of 2026cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5283Momnibus ActcosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • SRES 837A resolution designating the week of August 22 through August 30, 2026, as "National Park Week".cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • S 5290Emergency Mountain Pine Beetle Response and Coordination ActsponsoredAug 5, 2026
  • SRES 841A resolution celebrating the 35th anniversary of the independence of Ukraine from the former Soviet Union.cosponsoredAug 5, 2026
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Committee assignments (9)

Frequent co-sponsors

Data from Congress.gov

The members Bennet most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

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Documented relationships

Documented facts about Bennet, aggregated from public records. A documented relationship is not evidence of wrongdoing — it is context, not a conclusion.

No documented relationships of this kind on record — absence is not a finding.

Stock trades (STOCK Act)

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Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Bennet connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

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