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Democratic representative for New York’s 26th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Higgins votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Higgins’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 Higgins votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Higgins’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+27.0% | 100.0% | +0.8 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Higgins vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Brian Higgins's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.6% | +10.4 |
| Average | 100.0% | 99.2% | +0.8 | |||
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