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UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

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Rand PaulR

Republican senator for Kentucky

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Paul votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Paul’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Paul votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Paul’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
-25.9%
16.4%
-14.9-14.9
-14.9

117th Congress (2021-22)

Republican senator for Kentucky

DateMeasureBiden positionPaul voteAgree 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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 38.1%-38.1
Dec. 14,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Present
support
Present
 88.0%
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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 39.8%-39.8
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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.6%-2.6
Aug. 4,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.1%+99.9
July 27,
2022		Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 28.5%-28.5
June 23,
2022		Expanding firearm regulations (65-33)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 21.1%-21.1
June 16,
2022		Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 67.5%-67.5
May 26,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.2%+98.8
May 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 41.6%-41.6
March 15,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.3%-23.3
March 10,
2022		The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 34.7%-34.7
March 8,
2022		Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 61.5%-61.5
March 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 0.1%
Jan. 19,
2022		Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 0.1%+99.9
Jan. 13,
2022		Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 3.6%-3.6
Dec. 14,
2021		Increasing the debt limit (50-49)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 93.8%+6.2
Dec. 2,
2021		Extending government funding (69-28)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 32.5%-32.5
Oct. 7,
2021		Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.8%-2.8
Sept. 30,
2021		Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 25.2%-25.2
Aug. 11,
2021		$3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.7%-2.7
Aug. 10,
2021		Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 36.7%-36.7
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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.6%-2.6
June 8,
2021		Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 2.6%-2.6
June 8,
2021		Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 37.1%-37.1
May 28,
2021		Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 10.1%-10.1
May 19,
2021		Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 7.5%-7.5
April 29,
2021		Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 96.1%
April 28,
2021		Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 3.8%
April 22,
2021		Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 98.0%
March 22,
2021		Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 22.7%-22.7
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 33.9%-33.9
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 30.1%-30.1
March 6,
2021		Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 91.3%-91.3
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 64.8%+35.2
March 1,
2021		Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 20.3%-20.3
Feb. 25,
2021		Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 27.3%-27.3
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 57.0%+43.0
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 92.3%-92.3
Feb. 8,
2021		Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 85.6%
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 73.9%+26.1
Jan. 26,
2021		Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 48.2%-48.2
Jan. 25,
2021		Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 64.3%-64.3
Jan. 22,
2021		Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2)
Rand Paul's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.6%+4.4
Jan. 21,
2021		Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27)
Rand Paul'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)
Rand Paul's Vote:
No
support
No
 78.4%-78.4
Average16.4%31.3%-14.9

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