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Republican senator for Alaska
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Sullivan votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Sullivan’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 Sullivan votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Sullivan’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-10.1% | 44.6% | -10.8 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Sullivan 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) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No |  | 64.9% | -64.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.5% | +71.5 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 85.7% | -85.7 |
| 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) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 56.3% | +43.7 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 5.7% | +94.3 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.9% | +27.1 |
| 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) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 14.6% | +85.4 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 58.5% | -58.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.1% | -60.1 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.1% | +13.9 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 25.0% | +75.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.0% | +98.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.6% | -34.6 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 65.3% | +34.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 11.3% | +88.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.9% | +43.1 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 63.7% | -63.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.2% | +71.8 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 26.6% | +73.4 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.4% | -13.4 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.5% | +87.5 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 24.0% | +76.0 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 5.2% | +94.8 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 82.6% | -82.6 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.6% | -66.6 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.0% | -29.0 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 59.0% | -59.0 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.9% | -27.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 65.4% | +34.6 |
| 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) Dan Sullivan'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) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.4% | +37.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 46.2% | -46.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.4% | -29.4 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 37.4% | -37.4 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 35.4% | -35.4 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.9% | +33.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.1% | -29.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Dan Sullivan'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) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.9% | +18.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 39.2% | +60.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.7% | -60.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.1% | -67.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.5% | +39.5 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 28.5% | ||
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.4% | +14.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.2% | -60.2 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 58.6% | ||
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.2% | +22.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 92.7% | -92.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.3% | +55.7 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.3% | +13.7 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.6% | +21.4 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Dan Sullivan's Vote: No | support | No | | 86.6% | -86.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.9% | +27.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Dan Sullivan's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.1% | +10.9 |
| Average | 44.6% | 55.5% | -10.8 | |||
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