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Democratic representative for California’s 14th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Speier votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Speier’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 Speier votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Speier’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+57.2% | 100.0% | +0.3 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Speier vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct. 22 | Expanding workplace requirements for breastfeeding accommodations (276-149) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 29 | Suspending the debt limit through December 16, 2022 (219-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 24 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (218-211) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 21 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (220-211) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act (219-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (220-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 29 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (416-11) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.3% | +5.7 |
| July 28 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 22 | Increasing the number of and expediting the process for visas available to Afghans who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan (407-16) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| July 21 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 20 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 1 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 25 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (218-208) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 23 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 17 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| May 20 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 19 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 18 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 14 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| May 13 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 15 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Jackie Speier's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.6% | +4.4 |
| Average | 100.0% | 99.7% | +0.3 | |||
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