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Republican senator for Iowa
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Ernst votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Ernst’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 Ernst votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Ernst’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-8.2% | 32.8% | -25.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Ernst 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) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No |  | 67.8% | -67.8 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 34.1% | +65.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 85.4% | +14.6 |
| 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) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.7% | +39.3 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 8.1% | +91.9 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.2% | +23.8 |
| 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) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.4% | -33.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 21.0% | +79.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.0% | -62.0 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.8% | +35.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.7% | +12.3 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 31.3% | +68.7 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.1% | +95.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 40.4% | -40.4 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.9% | -67.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 15.2% | +84.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.0% | -61.0 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.0% | +33.0 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.1% | +19.9 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 33.8% | +66.2 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 31.9% | +68.1 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.4% | -19.4 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 18.2% | +81.8 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.2% | +71.8 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.4% | -33.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 9.7% | +90.3 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 80.7% | -80.7 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.3% | -70.3 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.6% | -34.6 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 63.1% | -63.1 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.5% | -33.5 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.5% | -68.5 |
| 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) Joni Ernst'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) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.4% | -33.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.4% | -33.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 65.3% | -65.3 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 51.7% | -51.7 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 35.0% | -35.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.5% | -42.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.6% | -41.6 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.5% | -70.5 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 35.1% | -35.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Joni Ernst'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) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.6% | +16.4 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.5% | -45.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 65.3% | -65.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.6% | +29.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 64.0% | -64.0 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.0% | -34.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.2% | +12.8 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 65.0% | -65.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.3% | -62.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 79.2% | -79.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.8% | +7.2 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 92.2% | -92.2 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.5% | -49.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.4% | +12.6 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 81.4% | -81.4 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.4% | +11.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Joni Ernst's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.7% | +27.3 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Joni Ernst's Vote: No | support | No | | 90.1% | -90.1 |
| Average | 32.8% | 58.5% | -25.7 | |||
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