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Republican senator for Kentucky
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often McConnell votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between McConnell’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 McConnell votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between McConnell’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-25.9% | 55.2% | +21.1 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | McConnell 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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 38.1% | +61.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 2.8% | +97.2 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 21.0% | -21.0 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 39.8% | +60.2 |
| 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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.6% | -2.6 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 28.5% | +71.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 21.1% | +78.9 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.5% | +32.5 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 1.2% | -1.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.3% | -4.3 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 41.6% | +58.4 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.3% | -23.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 34.7% | +65.3 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 61.5% | +38.5 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.7% | +97.3 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.6% | +96.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.6% | -2.6 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 93.8% | -93.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 32.5% | +67.5 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.8% | -2.8 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 25.2% | +74.8 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 36.7% | +63.3 |
| 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) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.6% | -2.6 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.6% | -2.6 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 37.1% | +62.9 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.1% | -10.1 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.9% | -2.9 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.5% | -7.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.8% | -3.8 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.2% | -33.2 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.4% | -2.4 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.7% | +37.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 5.0% | -5.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.7% | -22.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 33.9% | +66.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 30.1% | +69.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.8% | -2.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.3% | +8.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.8% | +35.2 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 20.3% | +79.7 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 27.3% | +72.7 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 57.0% | +43.0 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mitch McConnell'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) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.6% | +14.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Mitch McConnell's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.4% | -10.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.9% | +26.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 48.2% | +51.8 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.3% | +35.7 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.6% | +4.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.8% | +25.2 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Mitch McConnell's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| Average | 55.2% | 34.1% | +21.1 | |||
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