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Independent senator for Maine
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often King votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between King’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 King votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between King’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+9.1% | 98.5% | +9.2 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | King 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) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 88.6% | +11.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 85.3% | -85.3 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.6% | +17.4 |
| 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) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.6% | +9.4 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 61.2% | +38.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| 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) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.1% | +14.9 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.9% | -92.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.7% | +12.3 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.8% | +6.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 89.2% | -89.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.3% | -87.3 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.3% | +11.7 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.9% | +13.1 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 74.7% | -74.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.4% | +10.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 85.3% | -85.3 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 82.8% | -82.8 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.9% | +8.1 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 91.3% | -91.3 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 73.1% | -73.1 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.1% | +14.9 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.0% | -96.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: No | oppose | No | | 58.4% | -58.4 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.2% | +6.8 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.9% | +14.1 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.5% | +9.5 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.1% | +14.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.0% | +10.0 |
| 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) Angus S. King Jr.'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) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.1% | +14.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.0% | +15.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.3% | +13.7 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.8% | +9.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.0% | +14.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.8% | +15.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.4% | +9.6 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.1% | +6.9 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Angus S. King Jr.'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) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.8% | +11.2 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.3% | +14.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.9% | +3.1 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.6% | +11.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.4% | +7.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.5% | +11.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.5% | +29.5 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Angus S. King Jr.'s Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| Average | 98.5% | 89.3% | +9.2 | |||
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