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Republican senator for Missouri
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Blunt votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Blunt’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 Blunt votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Blunt’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-15.4% | 54.7% | +6.6 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Blunt vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No |  | 14.9% | -14.9 |
| Aug. 4 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.0% | +96.0 |
| July 27 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 48.1% | +51.9 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 46.0% | +54.0 |
| June 16 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.9% | +19.1 |
| May 26 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 11.4% | +88.6 |
| May 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.2% | +99.8 |
| April 7 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.1% | -20.1 |
| March 15 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.2% | +95.8 |
| March 15 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 44.8% | +55.2 |
| March 10 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 54.1% | +45.9 |
| March 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.2% | +26.8 |
| March 3 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 15.2% | +84.8 |
| March 2 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 14.4% | +85.6 |
| Jan. 19 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.2% | +96.8 |
| Jan. 13 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 14.1% | +85.9 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.9% | -14.9 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.5% | +99.5 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.3% | -87.3 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.3% | +44.7 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 15.0% | -15.0 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.9% | +44.1 |
| 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) Roy Blunt'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) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.9% | -14.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.9% | -14.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 54.0% | +46.0 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Roy Blunt's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 31.1% | ||
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 16.0% | -16.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.3% | -24.3 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.9% | -19.9 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.8% | +44.2 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 15.1% | -15.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Roy Blunt'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) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.2% | +23.8 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.1% | -23.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 47.2% | -47.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.1% | +43.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 50.0% | +50.0 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 15.4% | -15.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.9% | +5.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.6% | +20.4 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Roy Blunt's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 45.7% | ||
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 47.7% | -47.7 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.1% | +28.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.6% | +7.4 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.9% | +10.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Roy Blunt's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.2% | -30.2 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.7% | +17.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.6% | +30.4 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.5% | +19.5 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.6% | +26.4 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Roy Blunt's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.0% | +14.0 |
| Average | 54.7% | 48.1% | +6.6 | |||
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