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Republican senator for Arkansas
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Boozman votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Boozman’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 Boozman votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Boozman’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-27.6% | 29.1% | -5.1 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Boozman 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) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No |  | 1.9% | -1.9 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 25.7% | -25.7 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 18.0% | -18.0 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 65.1% | +34.9 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.8% | +99.2 |
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.2% | -3.2 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.2% | +99.8 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.4% | -20.4 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 31.9% | -31.9 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 59.5% | +40.5 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.9% | +98.1 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.9% | +98.1 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.9% | -1.9 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) John Boozman'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) John Boozman's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.6% | -94.6 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.2% | -29.2 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.9% | -1.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.8% | -33.8 |
| 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) John Boozman'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) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.9% | -1.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.9% | -1.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.5% | -34.5 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 8.1% | -8.1 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.1% | -2.1 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 5.9% | -5.9 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.0% | -30.0 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.6% | -1.6 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) John Boozman'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) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.3% | -60.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.7% | -3.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.6% | -19.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.6% | -30.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.2% | -27.2 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.0% | -2.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.5% | +9.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.1% | +37.9 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.2% | -17.2 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.4% | -24.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 54.6% | +45.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.2% | +7.8 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.8% | +15.2 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 8.4% | -8.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.4% | +27.6 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.7% | -44.7 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) John Boozman's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.4% | -61.4 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.3% | +4.7 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.0% | +25.0 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) John Boozman's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.9% | +23.1 |
| Average | 29.1% | 34.2% | -5.1 | |||
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