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Republican senator for South Carolina
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Scott votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Scott’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 Scott votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Scott’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-11.7% | 24.1% | -28.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Scott vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug. 7 | 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 | 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 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Tim Scott's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.4% | -55.4 |
| June 23 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Tim Scott's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.9% | -55.9 |
| June 16 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 15 | 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 | 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 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Tim Scott's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.9% | -60.9 |
| March 8 | 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 | 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 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Tim Scott's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 22.4% | +77.6 |
| Jan. 19 | 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 | 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 |
| 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% | ||
| Average | 24.1% | 52.9% | -28.9 | |||
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