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Republican senator for South Dakota
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Rounds votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Rounds’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 Rounds votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Rounds’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-26.2% | 44.1% | +10.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Rounds 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) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 37.8% | +62.2 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| 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) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.6% | -20.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.3% | -39.3 |
| 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) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.1% | -28.1 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.6% | -20.6 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.2% | -67.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.1% | +98.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Mike Rounds'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) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.1% | -4.1 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 41.2% | +58.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.9% | -22.9 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.3% | -34.3 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.2% | +38.8 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.6% | +97.4 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.6% | +97.4 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.5% | +96.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Mike Rounds'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) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.0% | -94.0 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 32.1% | +67.9 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 24.8% | +75.2 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 2.5% | ||
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 36.3% | ||
| 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) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 100.0% | ||
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 36.7% | +63.3 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 9.8% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.8% | -2.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.2% | -7.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 96.1% | ||
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Mike Rounds's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 3.7% | ||
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 32.8% | -32.8 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.3% | -2.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Mike Rounds'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) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.3% | +37.7 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.8% | -4.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 22.3% | +77.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 33.4% | +66.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 29.7% | +70.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.2% | +8.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.4% | +35.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.8% | -19.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 26.9% | +73.1 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.7% | +43.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mike Rounds'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) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.5% | +14.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Mike Rounds's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.1% | -10.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.7% | +26.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 47.7% | +52.3 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.9% | +36.1 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.9% | +25.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Mike Rounds's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.2% | +21.8 |
| Average | 44.1% | 33.2% | +10.9 | |||
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