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Democratic senator for Rhode Island
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Reed votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Reed’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 Reed votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Reed’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+20.8% | 100.0% | +3.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Reed 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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 95.6% | +4.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.4% | +19.6 |
| 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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.3% | -92.3 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| 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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.2% | -99.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.5% | -96.5 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.2% | -97.2 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.3% | -92.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 40.8% | -40.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| 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) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed'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) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.0% | +31.0 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Jack Reed's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| Average | 100.0% | 96.3% | +3.7 | |||
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