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Democratic senator for Virginia
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Kaine votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Kaine’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 Kaine votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Kaine’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+10.1% | 97.0% | +6.6 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Kaine 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) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 89.5% | +10.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.2% | -87.2 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 82.4% | +17.6 |
| 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) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.7% | +8.3 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 65.0% | +35.0 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.7% | +4.3 |
| 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) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.1% | +12.9 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 94.6% | -94.6 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.7% | +11.3 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.6% | +5.4 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 91.0% | -91.0 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 90.6% | -90.6 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.0% | +10.0 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.8% | +12.2 |
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 77.8% | -77.8 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.7% | +9.3 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.3% | +9.7 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.1% | +7.9 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 87.2% | -87.2 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 84.9% | -84.9 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.8% | +6.2 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 93.3% | -93.3 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 75.5% | -75.5 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.1% | +12.9 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 97.4% | -97.4 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 56.8% | +43.2 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.0% | +6.0 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.8% | +12.2 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.4% | +8.6 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.0% | +13.0 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 90.9% | +9.1 |
| 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) Tim Kaine'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) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.1% | +12.9 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.0% | +13.0 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.2% | +12.8 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.0% | +8.0 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.9% | +12.1 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.5% | +13.5 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.9% | +8.1 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.5% | +0.5 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.9% | +6.1 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.8% | +10.2 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Tim Kaine'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) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.1% | +4.9 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.9% | +7.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 94.2% | +5.8 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.7% | +6.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.7% | +10.3 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 87.2% | +12.8 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.9% | +1.1 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.2% | +2.8 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.0% | +5.0 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.6% | +10.4 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.9% | +7.1 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 93.3% | +6.7 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.3% | +3.7 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 89.9% | +10.1 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.2% | +4.8 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.8% | +3.2 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.0% | +2.0 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 70.4% | +29.6 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Tim Kaine's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.4% | +3.6 |
| Average | 97.0% | 90.4% | +6.6 | |||
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