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Republican senator for Florida
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Scott votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Scott’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 Scott votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Scott’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-3.4% | 13.4% | -54.7 |
Date | Measure | Biden position | Scott vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
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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) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 74.9% | -74.9 | |
Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 50.0% | +50.0 | |
Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 84.6% | -84.6 | |
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) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 71.4% | -71.4 | |
Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 17.7% | +82.3 | |
Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 83.6% | -83.6 | |
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) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.3% | -49.3 | |
Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 43.3% | +56.7 | |
July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 70.7% | -70.7 | |
June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 75.9% | -75.9 | |
June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | 91.2% | +8.8 | |
May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 49.8% | +50.2 | |
May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 17.5% | +82.5 | |
April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 56.4% | -56.4 | |
March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 74.2% | -74.2 | |
March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 29.0% | +71.0 | |
March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 71.1% | -71.1 | |
March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 74.7% | -74.7 | |
March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 84.0% | -84.0 | |
March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 49.7% | +50.3 | |
March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 47.0% | +53.0 | |
Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 41.0% | -41.0 | |
Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 39.3% | +60.7 | |
Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 40.4% | +59.6 | |
Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.3% | -49.3 | |
Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | 32.9% | +67.1 | |
Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Rick Scott's Vote: No | oppose | No | 75.3% | -75.3 | |
Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 78.9% | -78.9 | |
Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 50.7% | -50.7 | |
Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 72.8% | -72.8 | |
Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.4% | -49.4 | |
Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 76.0% | -76.0 | |
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) Rick Scott'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) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.3% | -49.3 | |
June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.3% | -49.3 | |
June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 72.2% | -72.2 | |
May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 65.6% | -65.6 | |
May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 51.0% | -51.0 | |
May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 56.1% | -56.1 | |
April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | 98.1% | +1.9 | |
April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 58.5% | -58.5 | |
April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | 99.1% | +0.9 | |
March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 78.9% | -78.9 | |
March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 52.1% | -52.1 | |
March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Rick Scott'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) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 87.7% | -87.7 | |
March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 62.0% | -62.0 | |
March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 75.9% | -75.9 | |
March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 78.9% | -78.9 | |
March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 72.5% | -72.5 | |
March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 49.9% | -49.9 | |
March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 97.4% | -97.4 | |
March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 91.0% | -91.0 | |
March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 76.4% | -76.4 | |
Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 71.4% | -71.4 | |
Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 83.8% | -83.8 | |
Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 92.9% | -92.9 | |
Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 93.5% | -93.5 | |
Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 62.8% | -62.8 | |
Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 90.0% | -90.0 | |
Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 87.4% | -87.4 | |
Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 92.2% | -92.2 | |
Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | 98.5% | +1.5 | |
Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Rick Scott's Vote: No | support | No | 72.1% | -72.1 | |
Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Rick Scott's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | 92.2% | +7.8 | |
Average | 13.4% | 68.2% | -54.7 |
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