Michael F. Bennet

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

• Senator CO 2009–present

• 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

Data from FEC

Recorded individual contributions: $47,035 · 108 receipts

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 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

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

• 76
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 380 cosponsored

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

• 0
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 76 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 · median 100% · on 11 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.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology Subcommittee Ranking Member · oversees Energy, Technology
• Taxation and IRS Oversight Subcommittee Ranking Member
• Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry Committee
• Finance Committee
• Intelligence (Select) Committee
• International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness Subcommittee
• Rules and Administration Committee
• Rural Development, Energy, and Credit Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee · oversees Energy

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

• DefenseOppose from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyPartial support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

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

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

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

Data from Congress.gov