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Democratic senator for California
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Padilla votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Padilla’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Padilla votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Padilla’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+29.2% | 98.5% | +1.1 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Padilla vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.7% | -99.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.8% | +21.2 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.7% | -98.7 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Alex Padilla's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 99.7% | ||
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Alex Padilla's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 99.5% | ||
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.8% | -97.8 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 29.1% | +70.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.8% | +6.2 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.9% | +32.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Alex Padilla's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Average | 98.5% | 97.3% | +1.1 | |||
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