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UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

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Christopher MurphyD

Democratic senator for Connecticut

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Murphy votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Murphy’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Murphy votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Murphy’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
+20.1%
98.5%
+2.2+2.2
+2.2

117th Congress (2021-22)

Democratic senator for Connecticut

DateMeasureBiden positionMurphy voteAgree 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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.4%+4.6
Dec. 14,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 97.6%-97.6
Dec. 1,
2022		Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 80.6%
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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.7%+2.3
Nov. 15,
2022		Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 91.2%+8.8
Sept. 29,
2022		Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.8%+1.2
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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
Aug. 4,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 99.8%-99.8
July 27,
2022		Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.5%+4.5
June 23,
2022		Expanding firearm regulations (65-33)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.8%+1.2
June 16,
2022		Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.9%+1.1
May 26,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 99.0%-99.0
May 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 99.9%-99.9
April 7,
2022		Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.2%+1.8
March 28,
2022		Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 93.9%+6.1
March 15,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 95.9%-95.9
March 15,
2022		Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.1%+2.9
March 10,
2022		The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.1%+3.9
March 8,
2022		Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.7%+4.3
March 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 97.6%-97.6
March 2,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 96.8%-96.8
Feb. 28,
2022		Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.8%+0.2
Jan. 19,
2022		Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 99.7%-99.7
Jan. 13,
2022		Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 91.6%-91.6
Dec. 14,
2021		Increasing the debt limit (50-49)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
Dec. 8,
2021		Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48)
Christopher Murphy'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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 41.8%-41.8
Dec. 2,
2021		Extending government funding (69-28)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.2%+1.8
Oct. 7,
2021		Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.8%+2.2
Sept. 30,
2021		Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.3%+2.7
Aug. 11,
2021		$3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
Aug. 10,
2021		Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.4%+3.6
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)
Christopher Murphy'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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
June 8,
2021		Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
June 8,
2021		Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 93.9%+6.1
May 28,
2021		Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.4%+1.6
May 19,
2021		Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.8%+2.2
May 11,
2021		Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.5%+3.5
April 29,
2021		Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.1%+0.9
April 28,
2021		Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.8%+1.2
April 22,
2021		Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.7%+0.3
March 22,
2021		Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.2%+1.8
March 18,
2021		Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.5%+1.5
March 17,
2021		Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0)
Christopher Murphy'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)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.9%+2.1
March 15,
2021		Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.0%+1.0
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.6%+1.4
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.1%+1.9
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.1%+3.9
March 6,
2021		Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.5%+0.5
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.0%+1.0
March 1,
2021		Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.0%+1.0
Feb. 25,
2021		Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.2%+3.8
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 96.6%+3.4
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 93.6%+6.4
Feb. 8,
2021		Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.7%+2.3
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.6%+2.4
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.4%+2.6
Jan. 26,
2021		Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.1%+0.9
Jan. 25,
2021		Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.4%+0.6
Jan. 22,
2021		Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 99.6%+0.4
Jan. 21,
2021		Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 69.1%+30.9
Jan. 20,
2021		Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10)
Christopher Murphy's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.1%+1.9
Average98.5%96.3%+2.2

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