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Republican senator for Texas
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Cornyn votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Cornyn’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 Cornyn votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Cornyn’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-5.6% | 48.5% | -15.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Cornyn vote | Agree 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) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 71.7% | +28.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 42.5% | +57.5 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.0% | +15.0 |
| 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) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.6% | -66.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.7% | +87.3 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.4% | +19.6 |
| 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) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) John Cornyn's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 32.2% | ||
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.8% | +33.2 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.1% | +28.9 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 41.0% | +59.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 9.6% | +90.4 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.0% | -49.0 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.4% | +28.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 22.0% | +78.0 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.6% | -66.6 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.3% | +28.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 82.2% | -82.2 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 42.2% | +57.8 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 39.9% | +60.1 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.2% | -30.2 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.7% | +71.3 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 34.6% | +65.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 20.2% | +79.8 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) John Cornyn's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 77.9% | -77.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.1% | +24.9 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.2% | -43.2 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 68.5% | +31.5 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.9% | -41.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.7% | -72.7 |
| 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 Cornyn'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 Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.1% | +30.9 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 59.4% | -59.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.5% | -43.5 |
| 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 Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.8% | -49.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 50.7% | -50.7 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.3% | +24.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.2% | -44.2 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) John Cornyn'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 Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.9% | +14.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.5% | -54.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.2% | -71.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.3% | +24.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.7% | -68.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.5% | -42.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.3% | +10.7 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.4% | +28.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.3% | -67.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.8% | +18.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.9% | +7.1 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) John Cornyn's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.8% | -56.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.9% | +11.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.8% | +15.2 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.6% | +9.4 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.4% | +27.6 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) John Cornyn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.3% | +8.7 |
| Average | 48.5% | 64.1% | -15.7 | |||
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