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Republican senator for Alaska
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Murkowski votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Murkowski’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 Murkowski votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Murkowski’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-10.1% | 66.7% | +9.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Murkowski vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 7 | 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) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No |  | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 14.6% | +85.4 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 58.5% | ||
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 60.1% | +39.9 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.1% | +13.9 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 25.0% | ||
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.0% | +98.0 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 34.6% | +65.4 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 11.3% | +88.7 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.9% | +43.1 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.7% | +36.3 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 28.2% | +71.8 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 26.6% | +73.4 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.5% | +87.5 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 24.0% | +76.0 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 5.2% | +94.8 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 82.6% | -82.6 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.6% | +33.4 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.9% | -27.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 65.4% | +34.6 |
| 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) Lisa Murkowski'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) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.4% | +37.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 46.2% | +53.8 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 29.4% | ||
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 37.4% | -37.4 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 35.4% | -35.4 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 66.9% | ||
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.1% | -29.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Lisa Murkowski'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) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.9% | +18.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 39.2% | +60.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.7% | +39.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.1% | +32.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.5% | +39.5 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.5% | -28.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.4% | +14.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.2% | +39.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 58.6% | +41.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.2% | +22.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.7% | +7.3 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.3% | +55.7 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.3% | +13.7 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.6% | +21.4 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.6% | +13.4 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.9% | +27.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Lisa Murkowski's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.1% | +10.9 |
| Average | 66.7% | 57.3% | +9.4 | |||
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