Michael F. Bennet
What the money shows
Michael F. Bennet has an estimated net worth of $29.2M. The 2026 campaign raised $188,775. Michael F. Bennet sits on Conservation, Forestry, Natural Resources, and Biotechnology and Taxation and IRS Oversight.
Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC
Net worth over time
Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.
† Includes one or more open-ended top brackets (over $50M). The high end is a floor, so the true figure may be higher.
Term history
- SenatorCOD2023 – 2029 · 6 yrs
- SenatorCOD2017 – 2023 · 6 yrs
- SenatorCOD2011 – 2017 · 6 yrs
- SenatorCOD2009 – 2011 · 2 yrs
If they'd just invested 20%
A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.
Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.
Senator Michael F. Bennet, CO
Born November 28, 1964.
Douglas Joseph Bennet Jr. was an American political official and college president. He was the fifteenth president of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut, from 1995 to 2007. Before that, he served as assistant secretary of state for international organization affairs in the Clinton administration (1993–95) and assistant secretary of state for legislative affairs in the Carter administration (1977–79), was the president and CEO of National Public Radio (1983–93), and ran the United States Agency for International Development under President Carter (1979–81).
James Douglas Bennet is an American journalist. He is a senior editor for The Economist, and writes the Lexington column for the magazine. He was editor-in-chief of The Atlantic from 2006 to 2016 and was the editorial page editor at The New York Times from May 2016 until his forced resignation in June 2020. He is the younger brother of U.S. Senator Michael Bennet.
Recorded votes
31 votes · 9 Yea · 22 Nay. "Sector money" is this member's corporate and union money from the sector each bill touches. Receipts, not a claim about the vote. Money-linked votes first.
Who else Colorado sends to Congress
2 senators and 8 of 8 House seats filled. Counting this seat.
- John W. HickenlooperSenatorD
- Diana DeGetteDistrict 1D
- Joe NeguseDistrict 2D
- Jeff HurdDistrict 3R
- Lauren BoebertDistrict 4R
- Jeff CrankDistrict 5R
- Jason CrowDistrict 6D
- Brittany PettersenDistrict 7D
- Gabe EvansDistrict 8R
Seat counts come from the 2020 census apportionment. A seat shows as open when no current member holds it. Source
Michael F. Bennet · sources
Only sources that fed this profile are listed here.
| Source | What it gave this page | Last fetched |
|---|---|---|
| @unitedstates congress-legislators github.com | Roster, terms, identifiers, official site link | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikidata www.wikidata.org | Education, career before office, family ties | 2026-07-30 |
| Wikipedia www.wikipedia.org | Quoted descriptors for family rows | 2026-07-30 |
| Federal Election Commission (OpenFEC) api.open.fec.gov | How much the campaign raised, and who gave it | 2026-09-23 |
| The member's official site | Where to reach them. We link out rather than republishing office addresses and phone numbers. | - |