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Democratic representative for California’s 52nd district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Peters votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Peters’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 Peters votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Peters’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+29.2% | 100.0% | +0.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Peters vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sept. 29 | Suspending the debt limit through December 16, 2022 (219-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 24 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (218-211) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Sept. 21 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (220-211) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act (219-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Aug. 24 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (220-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| 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) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| July 28 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| 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) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| July 21 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| July 20 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| July 1 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 25 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 24 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 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) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 23 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 17 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| May 20 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| May 19 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| May 18 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| May 14 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| May 13 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| April 15 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Scott Peters's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.1% | +9.9 |
| Average | 100.0% | 99.3% | +0.7 | |||
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