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Democratic representative for California’s 35th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Torres votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Torres’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
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Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Torres votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Torres’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+32.5% | 100.0% | +0.6 |
Date | Measure | Biden position | Torres vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
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March 3 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxins (256-174) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
Feb. 9 | Imposing visa restrictions on foreign people found responsible for human rights violations related to someone's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics (227-206) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Feb. 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (342-92) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
Feb. 7 | Ending forced arbitration for sexual assault and sexual harrassment cases (335-97) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
Feb. 4 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (222-210) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Jan. 13 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance regulations and election administration rules (220-203) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Jan. 12 | Expanding GI Bill eligibility for National Guard and Reserve members (287-135) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
Dec. 15, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (221-209) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Dec. 14, 2021 | Creating a State Department position to monitor and combat Islamophobia around the world (219-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Dec. 9, 2021 | Limiting the power of the executive branch and increasing disclosure requirements for presidential and vice presidential candidates (220-208) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (221-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Nov. 19, 2021 | Providing money to expand social safety programs, fight climate change and lower health care costs (220-213) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Nov. 5, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (228-206) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
Nov. 4, 2021 | Protecting older job applicants from discrimination in the hiring process (224-200) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Oct. 26, 2021 | Reauthorizing and expanding funding for preventing domestic violence (228-200) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Oct. 22, 2021 | Expanding workplace requirements for breastfeeding accommodations (276-149) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
Sept. 29, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through December 16, 2022 (219-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Sept. 24, 2021 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (218-211) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Sept. 21, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (220-211) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Aug. 24, 2021 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act (219-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Aug. 24, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (220-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
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 (416-11) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.3% | +3.7 |
July 28, 2021 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
July 22, 2021 | Increasing the number of and expediting the process for visas available to Afghans who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan (407-16) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
July 21, 2021 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
July 20, 2021 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
July 1, 2021 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 25, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 24, 2021 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (218-208) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 23, 2021 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
June 17, 2021 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
May 20, 2021 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
May 19, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
May 18, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
May 14, 2021 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
May 13, 2021 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
April 22, 2021 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
April 21, 2021 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
April 21, 2021 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
April 16, 2021 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
April 15, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 18, 2021 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
March 18, 2021 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 17, 2021 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.9% | +0.1 |
March 11, 2021 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 11, 2021 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 10, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 9, 2021 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 3, 2021 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
March 3, 2021 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Feb. 26, 2021 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Feb. 25, 2021 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Norma Torres's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.0% | +9.0 |
Average | 100.0% | 99.4% | +0.6 |
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