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Republican senator for Mississippi
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Hyde-Smith votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Hyde-Smith’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 Hyde-Smith votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Hyde-Smith’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-16.5% | 34.4% | -8.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Hyde-Smith 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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No |  | 54.1% | -54.1 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.3% | +86.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 86.7% | ||
| 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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 40.7% | -40.7 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.4% | +98.6 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 60.1% | +39.9 |
| 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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.7% | -12.7 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.8% | +97.2 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.8% | -45.8 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.0% | -43.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.6% | +20.4 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 9.3% | +90.7 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.5% | -17.5 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.8% | -55.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.3% | +96.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 42.2% | +57.8 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 51.9% | +48.1 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.0% | -72.0 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.0% | +87.0 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.3% | +87.7 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.3% | +97.7 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.4% | +87.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.7% | -12.7 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 88.2% | -88.2 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 52.8% | +47.2 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.4% | -13.4 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.5% | -44.5 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.8% | -12.8 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.8% | -53.8 |
| 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) Cindy Hyde-Smith'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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.7% | -12.7 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.7% | -12.7 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.1% | -52.1 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.2% | -28.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.7% | -13.7 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 21.8% | -21.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.2% | -17.2 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.3% | -53.3 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.8% | -12.8 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Cindy Hyde-Smith'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) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.9% | +25.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.2% | -20.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.3% | +55.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.6% | -53.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 47.7% | -47.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.2% | -13.2 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.2% | +21.8 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.6% | -42.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.3% | -45.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.6% | +30.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.5% | +7.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.5% | +10.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.4% | -27.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.8% | +18.2 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.4% | +32.6 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.0% | +21.0 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 97.1% | ||
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 73.7% | ||
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Cindy Hyde-Smith's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.3% | +14.7 |
| Average | 34.4% | 42.8% | -8.4 | |||
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