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Democratic senator for Hawaii
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Hirono votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Hirono’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 Hirono votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Hirono’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+29.5% | 98.4% | +1.2 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Hirono 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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.7% | -99.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.8% | +21.2 |
| 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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.8% | -98.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| 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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.7% | -99.7 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Mazie K. Hirono'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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 28.7% | +71.3 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| 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) Mazie K. Hirono'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) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 99.9% | ||
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 100.0% | ||
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 99.1% | ||
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 99.9% | ||
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.8% | +6.2 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.9% | +32.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Mazie K. Hirono's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Average | 98.4% | 97.3% | +1.2 | |||
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