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

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Robert MenendezD

Democratic senator for New Jersey

Biden margin

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

Biden score

How often Menendez votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Menendez’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 Menendez votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Menendez’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
+15.9%
100.0%
+5.4+5.4
+5.4

117th Congress (2021-22)

Democratic senator for New Jersey

DateMeasureBiden positionMenendez 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)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
93.3%+6.7
Dec. 14,
2022
Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
94.8%-94.8
Dec. 1,
2022
Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
81.3%+18.7
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)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.9%+4.1
Nov. 15,
2022
Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
82.9%-82.9
Sept. 29,
2022
Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.9%+2.1
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)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.8%+5.2
Aug. 4,
2022
Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
99.1%-99.1
July 27,
2022
Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
93.3%+6.7
June 23,
2022
Expanding firearm regulations (65-33)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.7%+2.3
June 16,
2022
Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
98.3%+1.7
May 26,
2022
Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
97.3%-97.3
May 3,
2022
Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
98.9%-98.9
April 7,
2022
Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.1%+3.9
March 28,
2022
Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
91.7%+8.3
March 15,
2022
Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Not Voting
oppose
Didn't Vote
90.9%
March 15,
2022
Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.1%+4.9
March 10,
2022
The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.2%+5.8
March 8,
2022
Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.4%+5.6
March 3,
2022
Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
94.9%-94.9
March 2,
2022
Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
93.5%-93.5
Feb. 28,
2022
Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
98.9%+1.1
Jan. 19,
2022
Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
98.8%-98.8
Jan. 13,
2022
Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
86.3%-86.3
Dec. 14,
2021
Increasing the debt limit (50-49)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.8%+5.2
Dec. 8,
2021
Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
99.8%-99.8
Dec. 7,
2021
Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
No
oppose
No
48.1%-48.1
Dec. 2,
2021
Extending government funding (69-28)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.0%+3.0
Oct. 7,
2021
Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.2%+4.8
Sept. 30,
2021
Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.5%+4.5
Aug. 11,
2021
$3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.8%+5.2
Aug. 10,
2021
Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.5%+5.5
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)
Robert Menendez'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)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.8%+5.2
June 8,
2021
Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.7%+5.3
June 8,
2021
Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
91.5%+8.5
May 28,
2021
Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.7%+3.3
May 19,
2021
Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.2%+4.8
May 11,
2021
Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
93.5%+6.5
April 29,
2021
Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
99.0%+1.0
April 28,
2021
Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.2%+2.8
April 22,
2021
Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
99.6%+0.4
March 22,
2021
Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.9%+3.1
March 18,
2021
Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.4%+3.6
March 17,
2021
Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0)
Robert Menendez'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)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.0%+3.0
March 15,
2021
Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.6%+2.4
March 10,
2021
Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.4%+2.6
March 10,
2021
Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.8%+3.2
March 10,
2021
Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.0%+6.0
March 6,
2021
Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.9%+5.1
March 2,
2021
Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
99.3%+0.7
March 2,
2021
Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
98.5%+1.5
March 1,
2021
Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
98.0%+2.0
Feb. 25,
2021
Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
94.1%+5.9
Feb. 23,
2021
Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.3%+4.7
Feb. 23,
2021
Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
93.4%+6.6
Feb. 8,
2021
Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.2%+2.8
Feb. 2,
2021
Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
95.4%+4.6
Feb. 2,
2021
Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
96.6%+3.4
Jan. 26,
2021
Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
98.5%+1.5
Jan. 25,
2021
Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
99.0%+1.0
Jan. 22,
2021
Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
99.5%+0.5
Jan. 21,
2021
Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
69.6%+30.4
Jan. 20,
2021
Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10)
Robert Menendez's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
97.5%+2.5
Average100.0%94.6%+5.4

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