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Republican senator for Florida
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Rubio votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Rubio’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 Rubio votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Rubio’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-3.4% | 25.4% | -42.5 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Rubio 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) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No |  | 74.9% | -74.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 50.0% | +50.0 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 84.6% | -84.6 |
| 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) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.4% | -71.4 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 17.7% | +82.3 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Marco Rubio's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 83.6% | ||
| 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) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.3% | -49.3 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 43.3% | +56.7 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 70.7% | -70.7 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.9% | -75.9 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 91.2% | +8.8 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 49.8% | +50.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 17.5% | +82.5 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 56.4% | -56.4 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.2% | -74.2 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 29.0% | +71.0 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.1% | -71.1 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.7% | -74.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 84.0% | -84.0 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 49.7% | +50.3 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 47.0% | +53.0 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.0% | -41.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 39.3% | +60.7 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 40.4% | +59.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.3% | -49.3 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 32.9% | +67.1 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 75.3% | -75.3 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.9% | +21.1 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 50.7% | -50.7 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.8% | -72.8 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.4% | -49.4 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 76.0% | -76.0 |
| 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) Marco Rubio'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) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.3% | -49.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.3% | -49.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.2% | -72.2 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 65.6% | -65.6 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Marco Rubio's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 51.0% | ||
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.1% | +43.9 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 58.5% | -58.5 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 78.9% | -78.9 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.1% | -52.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Marco Rubio'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) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 87.7% | -87.7 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Marco Rubio's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 62.0% | ||
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.9% | +24.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 78.9% | -78.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.5% | -72.5 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 49.9% | -49.9 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 91.0% | -91.0 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.4% | +23.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.4% | -71.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 83.8% | -83.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 92.9% | -92.9 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.8% | -62.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 90.0% | -90.0 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.4% | +12.6 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Marco Rubio's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 92.2% | ||
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Marco Rubio's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.1% | -72.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Marco Rubio's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.2% | +7.8 |
| Average | 25.4% | 67.9% | -42.5 | |||
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