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Democratic senator for Illinois
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Duckworth votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Duckworth’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 Duckworth votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Duckworth’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+17.0% | 96.9% | +1.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Duckworth 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) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.7% | -95.7 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 81.1% | +18.9 |
| 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) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 85.4% | -85.4 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| 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) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.4% | -99.4 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.5% | +1.5 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.9% | -97.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.3% | -99.3 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.3% | +7.7 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Not Voting | oppose | Didn't Vote | 92.5% | ||
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 95.7% | ||
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.8% | +5.2 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 95.7% | -95.7 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.5% | -94.5 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.2% | -99.2 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.8% | -87.8 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 99.9% | -99.9 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 46.5% | +53.5 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| 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) Tammy Duckworth'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) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.6% | +4.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.2% | +7.8 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.0% | +4.0 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.4% | +5.6 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.0% | +1.0 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Tammy Duckworth'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) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.8% | +2.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.6% | +1.4 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.3% | +1.7 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.7% | +5.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.5% | +6.5 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.3% | +2.7 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.1% | +3.9 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.7% | +1.3 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: No | support | No | | 69.5% | -69.5 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Tammy Duckworth's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Average | 96.9% | 95.0% | +1.9 | |||
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