
Michael F. Bennet
Democrat · CO · U.S. Senate
Bio
Michael Farrand Bennet is an American attorney and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Colorado, a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Democratic Party, he was appointed to the seat when Senator Ken Salazar became Secretary of the Interior. He previously worked as a managing director for the Anschutz Investment Company, chief of staff to Denver mayor John Hickenlooper, and superintendent of Denver Public Schools. He is married to Susan Daggett.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 17.6 years
- First took office
- 2009 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 39 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 61
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Colorado Springs, CO · 719-328-1100
- Denver, CO · 303-455-7600
- Fort Collins, CO · 970-224-2200
- Grand Junction, CO · 970-241-6631
- Pueblo, CO · 719-542-7550
- Alamosa, CO · 719-587-0096
- Durango, CO · 970-259-1710
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $11.5M – $47.7M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $11.0M – $47.4M
- Since 2018
- +$13.9M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Michael F. Bennet's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Michael F. Bennet (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Bennetsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestrycenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Bennet's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Transcript: What El-Sayed’s Narrow Win Tells Us About the DemocratsThis is a lightly edited transcript of the August 5 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: I’m Perry Bacon, the host. Two great guests. Julia Azari is a political scie…
The New Republic · August 5, 2026
‘Moderate’ Netanyahu Alternative Who Met With Dems Wants Israel to Keep Expanding Its BordersFaced with mounting pressure from constituents to stop providing military support to Israel's genocidal wars, some Democrats in Congress who've long expressed unwavering support for the country are hoping that its elections this fall could provide a reset.On …
Common Dreams · July 30, 2026
Transcript: What’s Really Driving the Progressive SurgeThis is a lightly edited transcript of the June 14 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack.Perry Bacon: This is Right Now on The New Republic, and I’m the host, Perry Bacon. Our gues…
The New Republic · July 17, 2026
Senate democrats grill Trump’s intel nominee Jay Clayton over NY Times subpoenasAt a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, Democrats grilled Trump's nominee for director of national intelligence, Jay Clayton, over subpoenas he issued to four NY Times reporters. Senator Michael Bennet of Colorado asked Clayton, who as Manhattan U.S. A…
Biztoc.com · July 16, 2026
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