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Republican senator for Utah
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Romney votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Romney’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 Romney votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Romney’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-20.5% | 58.2% | +18.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Romney 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) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 47.3% | +52.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 7.4% | +92.6 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.2% | +12.8 |
| 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) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 31.7% | +68.3 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.5% | +99.5 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 51.6% | +48.4 |
| 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) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.0% | -7.0 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.8% | +99.2 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 38.2% | +61.8 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 33.0% | +67.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.9% | -74.9 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.3% | +95.7 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Mitt Romney'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) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 10.3% | +89.7 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 49.8% | +50.2 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 1.3% | -1.3 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.7% | -33.7 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.6% | -44.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.8% | -67.8 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 7.2% | +92.8 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 6.9% | +93.1 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.7% | -0.7 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.6% | +99.4 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 7.7% | +92.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.0% | -7.0 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Mitt Romney'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) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 90.9% | -90.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.1% | -44.1 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.4% | -7.4 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 35.9% | +64.1 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.1% | -7.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 46.5% | +53.5 |
| 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) Mitt Romney'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) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.0% | -7.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.0% | -7.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.7% | +54.3 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 19.2% | +80.8 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.7% | -7.7 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.5% | -14.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.7% | +3.3 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 9.8% | -9.8 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.7% | +55.3 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 6.8% | -6.8 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Mitt Romney'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) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.0% | +30.0 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 12.0% | -12.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 34.5% | +65.5 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.2% | +54.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 40.0% | +60.0 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Mitt Romney's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.3% | -7.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.0% | +27.0 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 32.4% | +67.6 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 37.4% | +62.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 64.5% | +35.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.4% | +7.6 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.0% | +12.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 19.0% | +81.0 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.7% | +21.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 59.6% | +40.4 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.3% | +26.7 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 74.2% | +25.8 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Mitt Romney's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.6% | +17.4 |
| Average | 58.2% | 39.8% | +18.4 | |||
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