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Democratic representative for California’s 43rd district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Waters votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Waters’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 Waters votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Waters’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+56.0% | 100.0% | +0.3 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Waters vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Maxine Waters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.4% | +4.6 |
| Average | 100.0% | 99.7% | +0.3 | |||
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