{"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-backer-C90019027-2020-s","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Metro Dc Democratic Socialists Of America · 2020 support spending","date":"2020-12-31","period":"2019-01-01 to 2020-12-31","status":"FEC displayed aggregate","summary":"The FEC displays $2,190.40 in independent expenditures by METRO DC DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA supporting Bernie Sanders for January 1, 2019–December 31, 2020.","facts":[{"label":"FEC filer ID","value":"C90019027"},{"label":"Candidate ID","value":"P60007168"},{"label":"Direction","value":"Support"},{"label":"Independent expenditures","value":"$2,190.40","note":"Exact amount displayed by the FEC for regular reports in the selected two-year period."},{"label":"Record type","value":"Outside spending; not a direct campaign contribution"},{"label":"Observed","value":"2026-09-12"}],"limitations":["This is spending by an outside filer. None of these funds are directly given to or spent by Sanders or his campaign.","The FEC says these aggregates use quarterly, monthly and semiannual reports; 24- and 48-hour notices are excluded. Values may change after processing or amendments.","The amount is the agency-displayed aggregate, not a sum of raw bulk transactions. No donor identity or employer-based attribution is included."],"sourceIds":["src-fec-backing-ui-2020"],"tags":["FEC","institutional outside spending","independent expenditures","support","2020","METRO DC DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISTS OF AMERICA"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-fec-backing-ui-2020","title":"FEC candidate P60007168 — independent expenditures, 2019–2020","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/P60007168/?tab=other-spending&cycle=2020&election_full=false","documentDate":null,"kind":"official-data-summary","locator":"Spending by others to support or oppose; 2019–2020 radio selected; table expanded to 100 rows. Exact institutional rows visibly read in a normal browser on 2026-09-12. No API credentials used.","sha256":null,"checkedOn":"2026-09-12","accessStatus":"source_reviewed"}]}