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Republican representative for Missouri’s 6th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Graves votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Graves’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 Graves votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Graves’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-28.3% | 9.1% | -1.4 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Graves vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| July 29 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (416-11) Sam Graves's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| July 28 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No |  | 1.0% | -1.0 |
| July 22 | Increasing the number of and expediting the process for visas available to Afghans who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan (407-16) Sam Graves's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.5% | +7.5 |
| July 21 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.7% | -1.7 |
| July 20 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| July 1 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| June 25 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.9% | -0.9 |
| June 24 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (218-208) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| June 23 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.7% | -0.7 |
| June 17 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 19.8% | -19.8 |
| May 20 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.7% | -1.7 |
| May 19 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 5.7% | -5.7 |
| May 18 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Sam Graves's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 67.3% | +32.7 |
| May 14 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.0% | -41.0 |
| May 13 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 8.3% | -8.3 |
| April 15 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.2% | -3.2 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.3% | -3.3 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Sam Graves's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 67.0% | ||
| Average | 9.1% | 10.5% | -1.4 | |||
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