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Republican senator for Kansas
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Moran votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Moran’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 Moran votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Moran’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-14.7% | 40.0% | -5.6 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Moran 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) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No |  | 16.4% | -16.4 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.9% | +95.1 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 49.5% | +50.5 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 48.0% | -48.0 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.7% | +18.3 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.8% | +87.2 |
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.2% | +99.8 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 21.8% | -21.8 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.9% | +95.1 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 46.5% | -46.5 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.4% | +44.6 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.0% | +26.0 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 16.7% | +83.3 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 15.8% | +84.2 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.0% | +96.0 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 15.3% | +84.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.4% | -16.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.7% | +99.3 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 86.7% | -86.7 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.9% | +43.1 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.5% | -16.5 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 57.3% | -57.3 |
| 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) Jerry Moran'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) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.4% | -16.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.4% | -16.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.2% | -55.2 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.1% | -33.1 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.6% | -17.6 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 25.9% | -25.9 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Jerry Moran's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 97.2% | ||
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 21.8% | -21.8 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 57.4% | -57.4 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.7% | -16.7 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Jerry Moran'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) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.1% | +22.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 25.1% | -25.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.1% | -49.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 57.7% | +42.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 51.5% | +48.5 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.9% | -16.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.5% | +19.5 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Jerry Moran's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 47.7% | ||
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.2% | -49.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.0% | +28.0 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.6% | +7.4 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Jerry Moran's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 90.2% | ||
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Jerry Moran's Vote: No | support | No | | 32.0% | -32.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.2% | +16.8 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.9% | +29.1 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.4% | +18.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Jerry Moran's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 97.4% | ||
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Jerry Moran's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 73.5% | ||
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Jerry Moran's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.5% | +13.5 |
| Average | 40.0% | 45.6% | -5.6 | |||
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