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Republican representative for Texas’s 17th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Sessions votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Sessions’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 Sessions votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Sessions’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-11.0% | 6.3% | -7.8 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Sessions vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No |  | 1.6% | -1.6 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.6% | -1.6 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.6% | -1.6 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 40.9% | -40.9 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 31.9% | -31.9 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 8.9% | -8.9 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.1% | -33.1 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.5% | -1.5 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 6.3% | -6.3 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.1% | -1.1 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.6% | -3.6 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 4.0% | -4.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.4% | -3.4 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.5% | -7.5 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Pete Sessions's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.5% | -2.5 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Pete Sessions's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 75.7% | +24.3 |
| Average | 6.3% | 14.1% | -7.8 | |||
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