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Democratic senator for Washington
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Cantwell votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Cantwell’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 Cantwell votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Cantwell’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+19.2% | 98.1% | +2.2 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Cantwell 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) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.8% | -98.8 |
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.1% | -95.1 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.7% | +3.3 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.2% | -97.2 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.2% | -96.2 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 90.6% | -90.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Maria Cantwell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 43.1% | +56.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| 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) Maria Cantwell'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) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 99.1% | ||
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.6% | ||
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Maria Cantwell'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) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.2% | +30.8 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Maria Cantwell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Average | 98.1% | 95.9% | +2.2 | |||
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