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Republican senator for Wisconsin
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Johnson votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Johnson’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 Johnson votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Johnson’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+0.6% | 37.5% | -39.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Johnson vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 29 | Extending government funding, providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine, and authorizing compensation for victims of the Hermits Peak/Calf Canyon wildfire (72-25) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No |  | 88.4% | -88.4 |
| Aug. 7 | 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) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.6% | -62.6 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 64.0% | +36.0 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 77.1% | -77.1 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 83.4% | -83.4 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 65.3% | +34.7 |
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 39.4% | +60.6 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 68.8% | -68.8 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 43.5% | +56.5 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 78.3% | -78.3 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 80.3% | -80.3 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 86.8% | -86.8 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 62.9% | +37.1 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 60.0% | +40.0 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 59.9% | +40.1 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 51.3% | +48.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.6% | -62.6 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 60.3% | +39.7 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 70.3% | -70.3 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 84.7% | -84.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.7% | -62.7 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 81.4% | -81.4 |
| 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) Ron Johnson'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) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.6% | -62.6 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 62.5% | -62.5 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 77.4% | -77.4 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.7% | -75.7 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 64.2% | -64.2 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.8% | -66.8 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 71.4% | -71.4 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 84.7% | -84.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 66.0% | -66.0 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Ron Johnson'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) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.4% | +9.6 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 74.2% | -74.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 83.1% | -83.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.6% | +15.4 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 78.7% | -78.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 63.1% | -63.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.4% | +6.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.0% | +16.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.0% | +22.0 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.1% | +12.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.0% | +7.0 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.5% | +5.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Ron Johnson's Vote: No | support | No | | 72.9% | -72.9 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.8% | +8.2 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.3% | +8.7 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.6% | +28.4 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Ron Johnson's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.7% | +6.3 |
| Average | 37.5% | 77.4% | -39.9 | |||
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