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Republican senator for Montana
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Daines votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Daines’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 Daines votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Daines’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-16.4% | 31.8% | -12.7 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Daines 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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No |  | 54.4% | -54.4 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.6% | +86.4 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 86.6% | +13.4 |
| 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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.1% | -41.1 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.4% | +98.6 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.4% | -60.4 |
| 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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.0% | -13.0 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.0% | +97.0 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 46.2% | +53.8 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.4% | -43.4 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Steve Daines's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 79.8% | ||
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 9.6% | +90.4 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.1% | +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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.9% | -17.9 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.1% | +43.9 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 3.4% | +96.6 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.6% | -42.6 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.2% | -52.2 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 72.2% | +27.8 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 13.3% | +86.7 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.6% | +87.4 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 2.7% | -2.7 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.4% | +97.6 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 12.7% | +87.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.0% | -13.0 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 0.3% | +99.7 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Steve Daines's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 88.1% | -88.1 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.2% | -53.2 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.7% | -13.7 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.9% | -44.9 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.1% | -13.1 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.1% | -54.1 |
| 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) Steve Daines'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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.0% | -13.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.0% | -13.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 52.4% | +47.6 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.6% | -28.6 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 14.1% | -14.1 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 22.2% | -22.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 17.6% | -17.6 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 53.6% | -53.6 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.1% | -13.1 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Steve Daines'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) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 75.1% | -75.1 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 20.6% | -20.6 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 44.7% | -44.7 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 54.0% | -54.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 48.1% | -48.1 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 13.5% | -13.5 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 78.4% | +21.6 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.1% | -43.1 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 45.6% | +54.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.9% | -69.9 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.5% | +7.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.5% | +10.5 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.8% | -27.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.9% | +18.1 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Steve Daines's Vote: No | support | No | | 67.7% | -67.7 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 79.2% | +20.8 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.7% | +26.3 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Steve Daines's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.4% | +14.6 |
| Average | 31.8% | 44.5% | -12.7 | |||
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