Starting with the 118th Congress, our data on how often members of Congress vote for or against President Biden's position is no longer being updated.

UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden?

An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.

Jon TesterD

Democratic senator for Montana

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Tester votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Tester’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Tester votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Tester’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
-16.4%
91.0%
+46.0+46.0
+46.0

117th Congress (2021-22)

Democratic senator for Montana

DateMeasureBiden positionTester voteAgree 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
Average91.0%45.0%+46.0

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