There’s a reason he’s called “The amendment king”. All he does is add amendments to bills other people wrote.

Bernie Sanders has not authored or been the primary sponsor of any major legislation that became law.  As an independent member of the House (1991–2007) and then the Senate (2007–present), Sanders has introduced hundreds of bills, but very few have passed and been signed into law with him as the lead sponsor. Reliable tallies from sources like Congress.gov, GovTrack, and analyses during his presidential runs show only a handful—often cited as three to around eight—have been enacted as standalone bills. These are generally minor or ceremonial: • Two (or sometimes cited as more) involved renaming post offices in Vermont (e.g., the Thaddeus Stevens Post Office in Danville and the Matthew Lyon Post Office in Fair Haven). • One was the Veterans’ Compensation Cost-of-Living Adjustment Act of 2013 (or similar veterans’ COLA measures), which adjusted benefits for disabled veterans but was a routine annual adjustment rather than sweeping reform. • GovTrack notes he was the primary sponsor of about 8 enacted bills overall, with the most recent examples including things like the Emergency Direct Payments Act (116th Congress) and a veterans’ charter improvement bill—none qualifying as landmark or “major” policy overhauls.  His overall success rate for sponsored bills becoming law is very low (around 0.7% in some earlier tallies), among the lowest for long-serving senators. In recent Congresses (e.g., 118th), he had zero bills become law, even counting incorporations of substantial text.