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UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

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James E. RischR

Republican senator for Idaho

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Risch votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Risch’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Risch votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Risch’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
-30.8%
31.8%
+1.2+1.2
+1.2

117th Congress (2021-22)

Republican senator for Idaho

DateMeasureBiden positionRisch voteAgree 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)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 30.5%-30.5
Dec. 14,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.0%+99.0
Dec. 1,
2022		Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 88.6%+11.4
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)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 13.6%-13.6
Nov. 15,
2022		Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.0%+100.0
Sept. 29,
2022		Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 30.0%-30.0
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)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.9%-0.9
Aug. 4,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.0%+100.0
July 27,
2022		Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 21.0%-21.0
June 23,
2022		Expanding firearm regulations (65-33)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 13.0%-13.0
June 16,
2022		Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 60.3%-60.3
May 26,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.3%+99.7
May 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.0%+100.0
April 7,
2022		Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.7%-1.7
March 28,
2022		Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 34.6%+65.4
March 15,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.1%+99.9
March 15,
2022		Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 15.7%-15.7
March 10,
2022		The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 26.8%-26.8
March 8,
2022		Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.7%-55.7
March 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.0%+99.0
March 2,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.0%+99.0
Feb. 28,
2022		Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.0%0.0
Jan. 19,
2022		Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.0%+100.0
Jan. 13,
2022		Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.6%+98.4
Dec. 14,
2021		Increasing the debt limit (50-49)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.9%-0.9
Dec. 8,
2021		Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.0%+100.0
Dec. 7,
2021		Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 95.8%-95.8
Dec. 2,
2021		Extending government funding (69-28)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.5%-23.5
Oct. 7,
2021		Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.0%-1.0
Sept. 30,
2021		Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 17.3%-17.3
Aug. 11,
2021		$3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.0%-1.0
Aug. 10,
2021		Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 28.6%+71.4
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)
James E. Risch'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)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.9%-0.9
June 8,
2021		Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.9%-0.9
June 8,
2021		Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 29.9%+70.1
May 28,
2021		Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 5.1%
May 19,
2021		Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.1%-1.1
May 11,
2021		Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 3.7%-3.7
April 29,
2021		Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.6%+4.4
April 28,
2021		Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.4%-1.4
April 22,
2021		Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.7%+2.3
March 22,
2021		Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.2%-24.2
March 18,
2021		Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 0.8%-0.8
March 17,
2021		Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0)
James E. Risch'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)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.7%-55.7
March 15,
2021		Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.0%-2.0
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 14.5%-14.5
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.9%-24.9
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 22.3%-22.3
March 6,
2021		Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 1.0%-1.0
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 89.1%+10.9
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 56.9%+43.1
March 1,
2021		Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 12.2%-12.2
Feb. 25,
2021		Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 19.6%+80.4
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 50.1%+49.9
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 92.1%+7.9
Feb. 8,
2021		Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 83.3%+16.7
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 5.5%-5.5
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 69.3%+30.7
Jan. 26,
2021		Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 38.2%+61.8
Jan. 25,
2021		Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.6%-55.6
Jan. 22,
2021		Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 94.6%+5.4
Jan. 21,
2021		Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27)
James E. Risch's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 75.4%+24.6
Jan. 20,
2021		Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10)
James E. Risch's Vote:
No
support
No
 74.2%-74.2
Average31.8%30.6%+1.2

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