{"meta":{"title":"Bernie Sanders public record","reviewedOn":"2026-09-12","scope":"A source-bounded record of Sanders-related campaign committees, organization filings, disclosed personal financial information, official proceedings, selected AI and climate policy, and an attributed career roll-call archive.","reuse":"Freely accessible public-interest reporting. Source-specific statutory and reuse restrictions apply; see https://ai-analytics.org/sanders/methodology/#reuse. Not a donor-prospecting, credit-screening or paid personal-data product. No blanket CC0 license.","limitations":["The financial and policy records are a reviewed selection, not a complete inventory of every receipt, asset, tax year, bill, statement, backer or legal proceeding.","The personal-finance section includes directly acquired calendar-2024 and calendar-2025 Senate annual reports and voluntarily released 2009–2018 tax returns. The newest acquired annual was filed August 13, 2026. Report sections have different reporting cutoffs; later amendments and underlying transactions are not independently established.","Campaign cycles have individual start and end dates; 2026 figures are partial periods. Original and amended reports can change historic totals.","No hidden funding channel, financial motive for AI policy, or undisclosed personal enrichment is established by this collection. Documented civil findings and settlements retain their exact parties, scope and outcomes.","Legislative announcements and introduced proposals are not enacted law. The September 2026 ASI proposal lacks a located filed identifier and full statutory text in this review.","The Voteview archive includes not-voting and present entries and excludes quorum calls and vacated votes; its latest captured vote is August 8, 2026.","Checked-on dates indicate review of a source or index reference, not necessarily acquisition of the full original. accessStatus and source notes identify unacquired documents and third-party mirrors."]},"record":{"id":"fec-C00305425-2000","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Sanders For Congress 2000 · 2000 cycle","date":"2000-12-31","period":"1999-01-01 to 2000-12-31","status":"Filed summary","summary":"The FEC displays $656,270.00 in receipts and $332,440.00 in disbursements for this committee and reporting window.","facts":[{"label":"FEC committee ID","value":"C00305425"},{"label":"Reporting coverage","value":"1999-01-01 through 2000-12-31"},{"label":"Total receipts","value":"$656,270.00"},{"label":"Total individual contributions","value":"$473,640.00"},{"label":"Party committee contributions","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other committee contributions","value":"$137,744.00"},{"label":"Candidate contributions","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Transfers from other authorized committees","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Loans made by candidate","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other loans","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Total disbursements","value":"$332,440.00"},{"label":"Operating expenditures","value":"$316,005.00"},{"label":"Transfers to other authorized committees","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Individual refunds","value":"$310.00"},{"label":"Political party refunds","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other committee refunds","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Candidate loan repayments","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other loan repayments","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Beginning cash on hand","value":"$270,171.00"},{"label":"Ending cash on hand","value":"$594,001.00"},{"label":"Debts/loans owed to committee","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Debts/loans owed by committee","value":"$0.00"}],"limitations":["Amounts belong to this campaign committee, not personal income. Cycle receipts can include transfers already counted by other committees. Preserve coverage dates and do not sum overlapping candidate and committee totals.","FEC summary totals are self-reported filing aggregates, not an audit or verification of every transaction."],"sourceIds":["src-fec-C00305425-2000"],"tags":["FEC","committee finance","C00305425","authorized committee","2000"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-fec-C00305425-2000","title":"FEC: SANDERS FOR CONGRESS 2000 — 2000 cycle","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00305425/?cycle=2000","documentDate":null,"kind":"official-data-summary","locator":"Financial summary; exact coverage dates shown on the committee page.","sha256":"cb8261d5ce483616ed0e58a8f0714d70439438e4a9f4343b2810b74ff6f125de","note":"FEC summary may change after amendments. Hash is the retrieved public HTML; selected fields are preserved separately.","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}