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Democratic senator for Connecticut
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Murphy votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Murphy’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 Murphy votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Murphy’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+20.1% | 100.0% | +3.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Murphy vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 7 | 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 | 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 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Christopher Murphy's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Christopher Murphy's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| June 16 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 15 | 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 | 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 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Christopher Murphy's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| March 8 | 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 | 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 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Christopher Murphy's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.8% | -96.8 |
| Jan. 19 | 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 | 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 |
| 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 |
| Average | 100.0% | 96.3% | +3.7 | |||
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