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Republican senator for West Virginia
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Capito votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Capito’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 Capito votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Capito’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-38.9% | 56.1% | +31.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Capito 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) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 19.4% | +80.6 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| 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) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 5.5% | +94.5 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 16.6% | +83.4 |
| 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) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 11.3% | +88.7 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 4.7% | +95.3 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 47.5% | +52.5 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.3% | -0.3 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 23.9% | +76.1 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 7.1% | -7.1 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 15.8% | +84.2 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.6% | +54.4 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +99.9 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.0% | +100.0 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 12.0% | +88.0 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 8.0% | +92.0 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 17.3% | +82.7 |
| 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) Shelley Moore Capito'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) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 19.5% | +80.5 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 1.2% | -1.2 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.9% | -0.9 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.2% | -0.2 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.9% | +3.1 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 12.6% | +87.4 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Shelley Moore Capito'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) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 43.7% | +56.3 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.3% | -0.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 5.7% | -5.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 13.2% | +86.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 12.1% | +87.9 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.1% | -0.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.5% | +15.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 43.1% | +56.9 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 4.2% | +95.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: No | support | No | | 10.1% | -10.1 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 38.6% | +61.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.9% | +8.1 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.9% | +21.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 1.5% | +98.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.7% | +39.3 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 23.3% | +76.7 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 40.5% | +59.5 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 92.5% | ||
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.3% | +23.7 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Shelley Moore Capito's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 66.2% | +33.8 |
| Average | 56.1% | 24.1% | +31.9 | |||
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