{"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":"sanders-controlai-us-lobbying-expenses-2025-2026","category":"organizations","title":"Control AI US reports quarterly lobbying expense estimates","date":"2026-07-17","period":"July 1, 2025–June 30, 2026; four non-overlapping quarters.","status":"Filed LD-2 reports; rounded expenses incurred, not donor receipts","summary":"Four reports by Control AI US, Inc. list $30,000 for each of Q3 and Q4 2025, then $120,000 for Q1 2026 and $80,000 for Q2 2026. All select Method A. Each describes artificial-superintelligence and loss-of-control issues and identifies a generalized interest of Secure Future Research Ltd.","facts":[{"label":"2025 3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30)","value":"$30,000","note":"Method A; filed 2025-10-16. Official type Q3 (quarterly report, not amendment)."},{"label":"2025 4th Quarter (Oct 1 - Dec 31)","value":"$30,000","note":"Method A; filed 2026-01-20. Official type Q4 (quarterly report, not amendment)."},{"label":"2026 1st Quarter (Jan 1 - Mar 31)","value":"$120,000","note":"Method A; filed 2026-04-17. Official type Q1 (quarterly report, not amendment)."},{"label":"2026 2nd Quarter (Apr 1 - June 30)","value":"$80,000","note":"Method A; filed 2026-07-17. Official type Q2 (quarterly report, not amendment)."},{"label":"Registrant and client","value":"Control AI US, Inc.; Self checked","note":"Same registrant 401109718 and client 67891 across all four reports."},{"label":"Reporting method","value":"Method A, Lobbying Disclosure Act definitions","note":"The joint guidance requires good-faith estimates rounded to the nearest $10,000, based on expenses incurred, including retained-firm payments. It is not a cash-transfer ledger."},{"label":"UK entity interest","value":"Generalized interest in the issues lobbied","note":"LD-2 foreign-interest text expressly refers to Secure Future Research Ltd on the LD-1. Empty new-foreign-entity arrays in the API are addenda, not proof that the relationship ended."}],"limitations":["These are reported lobbying expenses, not incoming grants, campaign contributions, precise cash spending or a full organization-wide budget.","Organization expenses already include retained lobbying firms under the guidance. Adding consultant-reported income would double-count overlapping spending.","The first-half 2026 reported amounts sum to $200,000 and the two reviewed 2025 quarters sum to $60,000; these are sums of rounded figures. Neither is a complete 2026 annual total.","The issue descriptions and government-body reporting do not identify particular Sanders contacts, establish a payment to him, or prove a causal link to the September 2026 announcement."],"sourceIds":["src-controlai-lda-23d9d594-6766-4799-8d98-55a81a6dfea4","src-controlai-lda-c3aa9309-c4c5-43ac-a52f-8e6027d1397a","src-controlai-lda-274a03b6-5086-4c8b-802f-003865436f37","src-controlai-lda-9b928c60-327c-47f7-9add-ac736a2fccf7","src-controlai-lda-guidance-2025"],"tags":["ai-advocacy","ControlAI","lobbying","expense estimates"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-controlai-lda-23d9d594-6766-4799-8d98-55a81a6dfea4","title":"Control AI US, Inc. 2025 3rd Quarter (July 1 - Sep 30) LD-2","publisher":"U.S. federal Lobbying Disclosure Act public filing system","url":"https://lda.gov/filings/public/filing/23d9d594-6766-4799-8d98-55a81a6dfea4/print/","documentDate":"2025-10-16","checkedOn":"2026-09-12","kind":"official-lobbying-quarterly-report","locator":"LD-2 reporting year/quarter, line 13 expenses, Method A, line 16 issue description and line 19 foreign interest.","sha256":"48f5aadf9e2a05eaded030102610af525f93a3ad82926d38a44036ec27077c17","accessStatus":"source_reviewed","note":"Original static HTML form and matching official API record were acquired; receipt hashes bind both. 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