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Independent senator for Arizona
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Sinema votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Sinema’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 Sinema votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Sinema’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+0.3% | 93.9% | +18.3 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Sinema 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) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 79.6% | +20.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 62.1% | -62.1 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.0% | +16.0 |
| 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) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 28.5% | +71.5 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| 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) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 62.4% | -62.4 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.6% | +23.4 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.9% | +17.1 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 64.1% | -64.1 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 37.3% | +62.7 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.9% | +32.1 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.5% | +21.5 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 42.3% | +57.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.8% | +22.2 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.9% | +20.1 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.6% | +13.4 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 61.9% | -61.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 59.0% | -59.0 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.0% | +40.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 58.3% | +41.7 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 50.5% | -50.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 58.1% | -58.1 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 70.7% | -70.7 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.3% | +15.7 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.9% | +37.1 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.2% | +20.8 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.0% | +19.0 |
| 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) Kyrsten Sinema'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) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.5% | +38.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.0% | +23.0 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 75.0% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.2% | +36.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.0% | +34.0 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.4% | +29.6 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.3% | +15.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 65.0% | +35.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Kyrsten Sinema'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) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.2% | +9.8 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.3% | +26.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.6% | +17.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.2% | +15.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.2% | +21.8 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.1% | +37.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.4% | +16.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.5% | +22.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.8% | +13.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.1% | +27.9 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.0% | +9.0 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.6% | +28.4 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Kyrsten Sinema's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.6% | +6.4 |
| Average | 93.9% | 75.6% | +18.3 | |||
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