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Democratic senator for Oregon
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Merkley votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Merkley’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 Merkley votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Merkley’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+16.1% | 96.2% | +1.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Merkley vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 7 | 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) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 99.2% | ||
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 97.4% | ||
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.0% | -99.0 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 91.2% | -91.2 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.2% | +4.8 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.3% | +5.7 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.5% | +5.5 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.0% | -95.0 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 93.6% | -93.6 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.9% | -98.9 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 86.5% | -86.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 47.8% | +52.2 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| 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) Jeff Merkley'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) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.6% | +8.4 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.3% | +4.7 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.6% | +6.4 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.9% | +3.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Jeff Merkley'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) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.1% | +5.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.0% | +5.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.4% | +4.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.7% | +3.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Jeff Merkley's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.6% | -69.6 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Jeff Merkley's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Average | 96.2% | 94.8% | +1.4 | |||
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