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Democratic senator for Connecticut
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Blumenthal votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Blumenthal’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 Blumenthal votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Blumenthal’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+20.1% | 98.5% | +2.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Blumenthal 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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 95.4% | +4.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.6% | -97.6 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.6% | +19.4 |
| 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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 91.2% | -91.2 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| 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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.5% | +4.5 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.0% | -99.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.9% | -95.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.6% | -97.6 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.8% | -96.8 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.7% | -99.7 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 91.6% | -91.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Richard Blumenthal'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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 41.8% | -41.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| 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) Richard Blumenthal'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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Richard Blumenthal'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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Richard Blumenthal'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) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.2% | +3.8 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.6% | +6.4 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.4% | +2.6 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: No | support | No |  | 69.1% | -69.1 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Richard Blumenthal's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Average | 98.5% | 96.1% | +2.4 | |||
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