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Republican senator for Tennessee
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Blackburn votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Blackburn’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 Blackburn votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Blackburn’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-23.2% | 16.9% | -18.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Blackburn 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) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No |  | 42.7% | -42.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.7% | +95.3 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 87.6% | +12.4 |
| 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) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.1% | -26.1 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.2% | +99.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.6% | -45.6 |
| 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) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.4% | -4.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.2% | -33.2 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.7% | -26.7 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.3% | +28.7 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 2.3% | ||
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 6.8% | -6.8 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 45.7% | -45.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.6% | +99.4 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.3% | -28.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.6% | -39.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 64.7% | -64.7 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.5% | +95.5 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.4% | +95.6 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.2% | -0.2 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.2% | +99.8 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 5.3% | +94.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.4% | -4.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.5% | -92.5 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 38.2% | -38.2 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 4.7% | ||
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.3% | -30.3 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.4% | -4.4 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.5% | -41.5 |
| 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) Marsha Blackburn'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) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.4% | -4.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.4% | -4.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.3% | -41.3 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 14.2% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.9% | -4.9 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.6% | -10.6 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 6.3% | -6.3 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.2% | ||
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 38.8% | ||
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.1% | -4.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Marsha Blackburn'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) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.4% | -66.4 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.9% | -7.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.3% | -28.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.4% | -39.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.9% | -34.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.6% | -4.6 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 92.3% | ||
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 69.0% | ||
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 25.9% | ||
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 32.1% | -32.1 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.8% | -60.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.3% | +7.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.8% | +13.2 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.3% | -14.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 76.4% | -76.4 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.0% | -54.0 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.0% | -69.0 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.5% | -74.5 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Marsha Blackburn's Vote: No | support | No | | 80.5% | -80.5 |
| Average | 16.9% | 35.9% | -18.9 | |||
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