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UPDATED Jan. 3, 2023, at 3:18 PM

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Tim ScottR

Republican senator for South Carolina

Biden margin

Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s

Biden score

How often Scott votes in line with Biden’s position

Biden plus-minus

Difference between Scott’s actual and predicted Biden support scores

Biden marginBiden scoreBiden plus-minus
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’sHow often Scott votes in line with Biden’s positionDifference between Scott’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
-11.7%
21.2%
-30.5-30.5
-30.5

117th Congress (2021-22)

Republican senator for South Carolina

DateMeasureBiden positionScott voteAgree 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 Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 62.3%-62.3
Dec. 14,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 24.1%+75.9
Dec. 1,
2022		Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 85.9%-85.9
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)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 52.4%-52.4
Nov. 15,
2022		Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 4.1%+95.9
Sept. 29,
2022		Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 69.9%-69.9
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 Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.4%-23.4
Aug. 4,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 10.3%+89.7
July 27,
2022		Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.4%-55.4
June 23,
2022		Expanding firearm regulations (65-33)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.9%-55.9
June 16,
2022		Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 84.7%+15.3
May 26,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 20.1%+79.9
May 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 1.0%+99.0
April 7,
2022		Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 29.8%-29.8
March 28,
2022		Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 63.0%-63.0
March 15,
2022		Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 8.6%+91.4
March 15,
2022		Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 53.3%-53.3
March 10,
2022		The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 60.9%-60.9
March 8,
2022		Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 76.9%-76.9
March 3,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 23.7%+76.3
March 2,
2022		Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 22.4%+77.6
Feb. 28,
2022		Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 9.3%-9.3
Jan. 19,
2022		Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 8.6%+91.4
Jan. 13,
2022		Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 20.7%+79.3
Dec. 14,
2021		Increasing the debt limit (50-49)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.4%-23.4
Dec. 8,
2021		Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
oppose
Yes
 2.8%+97.2
Dec. 7,
2021		Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
oppose
No
 84.2%-84.2
Dec. 2,
2021		Extending government funding (69-28)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 63.3%-63.3
Oct. 7,
2021		Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.4%-24.4
Sept. 30,
2021		Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.4%-55.4
Aug. 11,
2021		$3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.5%-23.5
Aug. 10,
2021		Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 62.6%-62.6
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 Scott'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 Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.4%-23.4
June 8,
2021		Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 23.4%-23.4
June 8,
2021		Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 59.9%-59.9
May 28,
2021		Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 41.4%-41.4
May 19,
2021		Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.8%-24.8
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 Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 33.2%-33.2
April 29,
2021		Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.5%+2.5
April 28,
2021		Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 30.2%-30.2
April 22,
2021		Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 98.8%+1.2
March 22,
2021		Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 63.6%-63.6
March 18,
2021		Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.3%-24.3
March 17,
2021		Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0)
Tim Scott'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 Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 80.3%-80.3
March 15,
2021		Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 33.9%-33.9
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 56.7%-56.7
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 63.8%-63.8
March 10,
2021		Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 57.3%+42.7
March 6,
2021		Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 24.0%-24.0
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 95.8%+4.2
March 2,
2021		Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 83.8%-83.8
March 1,
2021		Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.8%-55.8
Feb. 25,
2021		Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 55.3%-55.3
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 75.4%-75.4
Feb. 23,
2021		Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 92.7%+7.3
Feb. 8,
2021		Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 91.2%+8.8
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 39.8%-39.8
Feb. 2,
2021		Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 85.2%-85.2
Jan. 26,
2021		Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22)
Tim Scott's Vote:
No
support
No
 76.1%-76.1
Jan. 25,
2021		Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 84.9%+15.1
Jan. 22,
2021		Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 97.7%+2.3
Jan. 21,
2021		Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Yes
support
Yes
 73.1%+26.9
Jan. 20,
2021		Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10)
Tim Scott's Vote:
Not Voting
support
Didn't Vote
 88.2%
Average21.2%51.7%-30.5

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