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Democratic senator for Hawaii
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Schatz votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Schatz’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 Schatz votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Schatz’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+29.5% | 98.5% | +1.1 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Schatz 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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Brian Schatz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.8% | -98.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Brian Schatz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Brian Schatz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.7% | -99.7 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Brian Schatz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Brian Schatz's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 97.9% | ||
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 28.7% | +71.3 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Brian Schatz'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) Brian Schatz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Average | 98.5% | 97.4% | +1.1 | |||
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