Starting with the 118th Congress, our data on how often members of Congress vote for or against President Biden's position is no longer being updated.

UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden?

An updating tally of how often every member of the House and the Senate votes with or against the president.

Mike RoundsR

Republican senator for South Dakota

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Rounds votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Rounds’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Rounds votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Rounds’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
-26.2%
44.1%
+10.9+10.9
+10.9

117th Congress (2021-22)

Republican senator for South Dakota

DateMeasureBiden positionRounds voteAgree 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
Average44.1%33.2%+10.9

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