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Democratic senator for Washington
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Murray votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Murray’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 Murray votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Murray’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+19.2% | 97.0% | +1.2 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Murray 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) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 95.0% | +5.0 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.2% | -97.2 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.7% | +19.3 |
| 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) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 89.8% | -89.8 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| 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) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 98.8% | -98.8 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.1% | -95.1 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.7% | +3.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.2% | -97.2 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.2% | -96.2 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.6% | -99.6 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 90.6% | -90.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Patty Murray's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 43.1% | +56.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| 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 (98-0) Patty Murray'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) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Patty Murray's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.1% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Patty Murray'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) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Patty Murray's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.2% | -69.2 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Patty Murray's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Average | 97.0% | 95.8% | +1.2 | |||
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