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Democratic senator for Montana
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Tester votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Tester’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 Tester votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Tester’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-16.4% | 91.0% | +46.0 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Tester 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) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 54.4% | +45.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 13.6% | -13.6 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.6% | +13.4 |
| 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) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 41.1% | +58.9 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 1.4% | +98.6 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.4% | +39.6 |
| 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) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.0% | +87.0 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 3.0% | -3.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 46.2% | +53.8 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 43.4% | +56.6 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.8% | +20.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 9.6% | -9.6 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 17.9% | +82.1 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.1% | +43.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.4% | +96.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 42.6% | +57.4 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 52.2% | +47.8 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.2% | +27.8 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 13.3% | -13.3 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 12.6% | -12.6 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 2.4% | -2.4 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Jon Tester's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 12.7% | -12.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.0% | +87.0 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 88.1% | +11.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 53.2% | +46.8 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.7% | +86.3 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.9% | +55.1 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.1% | +86.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 54.1% | +45.9 |
| 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) Jon Tester'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) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.0% | +87.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.0% | +87.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 52.4% | +47.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 28.6% | +71.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 14.1% | +85.9 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 22.2% | +77.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 17.6% | +82.4 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 53.6% | +46.4 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.1% | +86.9 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Jon Tester'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) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.1% | +24.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 20.6% | +79.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.7% | +55.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 54.0% | +46.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 48.1% | +51.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.5% | +86.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 43.1% | +56.9 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.6% | +54.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.9% | +30.1 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.5% | +7.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.5% | +10.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 27.8% | +72.2 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.9% | +18.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.7% | +32.3 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.2% | +20.8 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Jon Tester's Vote: No | support | No | | 73.7% | -73.7 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Jon Tester's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.4% | +14.6 |
| Average | 91.0% | 45.0% | +46.0 | |||
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