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Democratic senator for Arizona
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Kelly votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Kelly’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 Kelly votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Kelly’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+0.3% | 95.5% | +19.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Kelly 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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 79.6% | +20.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 28.5% | -28.5 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mark Kelly's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 62.4% | -62.4 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.6% | +23.4 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.9% | +17.1 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 77.8% | +22.2 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 61.9% | ||
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 58.3% | -58.3 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 50.5% | +49.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 70.7% | -70.7 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.3% | +15.7 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.9% | +37.1 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.2% | +20.8 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.6% | +38.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.5% | +38.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.0% | +25.0 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.0% | +34.0 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.6% | +17.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.2% | +21.8 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.4% | +16.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.8% | +13.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mark Kelly'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) Mark Kelly's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.6% | +6.4 |
| Average | 95.5% | 75.8% | +19.7 | |||
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