{"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-C00577130-2016","category":"campaign-finance","title":"Bernie 2016 · 2016 cycle","date":"2016-12-31","period":"2015-04-01 to 2016-12-31","status":"Filed summary; reconciliation needed","summary":"The FEC displays $237,640,609.52 in receipts and $232,185,441.62 in disbursements for this committee and reporting window.","facts":[{"label":"FEC committee ID","value":"C00577130"},{"label":"Reporting coverage","value":"2015-04-01 through 2016-12-31"},{"label":"Total receipts","value":"$237,640,609.52"},{"label":"Total contributions","value":"$231,820,629.94"},{"label":"Total individual contributions","value":"$231,815,008.02"},{"label":"Itemized individual contributions","value":"$97,145,068.00"},{"label":"Unitemized individual contributions","value":"$134,669,942.00"},{"label":"Party committee contributions","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other committee contributions","value":"$5,621.92"},{"label":"Presidential public funds","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Candidate contributions","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Transfers from other authorized committees","value":"$1,500,000.00"},{"label":"Total loans received","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Loans made by candidate","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other loans","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Total offsets to expenditures","value":"$4,243,002.21"},{"label":"Offsets to operating expenditures","value":"$4,243,002.21"},{"label":"Fundraising offsets","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Legal and accounting offsets","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other receipts","value":"$76,977.37"},{"label":"Total disbursements","value":"$232,185,441.62"},{"label":"Operating expenditures","value":"$226,827,144.16"},{"label":"Transfers to other authorized committees","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Fundraising","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Exempt legal and accounting","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Total loan repayments made","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Candidate loan repayments","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other loan repayments","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Total contribution refunds","value":"$5,233,099.63"},{"label":"Individual refunds","value":"$5,233,099.63"},{"label":"Political party refunds","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other committee refunds","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Other disbursements","value":"$125,197.83"},{"label":"Beginning cash on hand","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Ending cash on hand","value":"$5,455,167.90"},{"label":"Debts/loans owed to committee","value":"$0.00"},{"label":"Debts/loans owed by committee","value":"$449,409.01"},{"label":"Arithmetic check: individual contributions","value":"Difference $-1.98","note":"Reported total minus component sum, or reported ending cash minus beginning cash + receipts − disbursements. Preserved source discrepancy; underlying-report reconciliation is pending."}],"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.","The FEC displayed summary has one or more component arithmetic differences greater than $1. Amounts are preserved exactly as displayed. Reconcile underlying reports/amendments before deriving percentages or tracing funds; this display discrepancy is not a finding of misconduct."],"sourceIds":["src-fec-C00577130-2016"],"tags":["FEC","committee finance","C00577130","authorized committee","2016"]},"sources":[{"id":"src-fec-C00577130-2016","title":"FEC: BERNIE 2016 — 2016 cycle","publisher":"Federal Election Commission","url":"https://www.fec.gov/data/committee/C00577130/?cycle=2016","documentDate":null,"kind":"official-data-summary","locator":"Financial summary; exact coverage dates shown on the committee page.","sha256":"5f8211d323adea8867afdbc60c41e1855a9ca86f9f1c24efa1fb726124c0af65","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"}]}