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Democratic senator for Rhode Island
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Whitehouse votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Whitehouse’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 Whitehouse votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Whitehouse’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+20.8% | 100.0% | +3.8 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Whitehouse vote | Agree 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) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 95.6% | +4.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.4% | +19.6 |
| 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) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.3% | -92.3 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| 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) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.2% | -99.2 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 96.5% | -96.5 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.9% | +4.1 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.2% | -97.2 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.8% | -99.8 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 92.3% | -92.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 100.0% | -100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 40.8% | -40.8 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.4% | +1.6 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.6% | +2.4 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| 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) Sheldon Whitehouse'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) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Sheldon Whitehouse'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) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.5% | +3.5 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.6% | +6.4 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.9% | +2.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.0% | +31.0 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Sheldon Whitehouse's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 98.2% | ||
| Average | 100.0% | 96.2% | +3.8 | |||
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