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Republican representative for Indiana’s 5th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Spartz votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Spartz’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
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Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Spartz votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Spartz’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-2.2% | 14.5% | -30.2 |
Date | Measure | Biden position | Spartz vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
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March 3 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxins (256-174) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.8% | -60.8 |
Feb. 9 | Imposing visa restrictions on foreign people found responsible for human rights violations related to someone's sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex characteristics (227-206) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 36.8% | -36.8 |
Feb. 8 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (342-92) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.6% | +15.4 |
Feb. 7 | Ending forced arbitration for sexual assault and sexual harrassment cases (335-97) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.0% | +17.0 |
Feb. 4 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (222-210) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.1% | -30.1 |
Jan. 13 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act, campaign finance regulations and election administration rules (220-203) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 25.1% | -25.1 |
Jan. 12 | Expanding GI Bill eligibility for National Guard and Reserve members (287-135) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 71.5% | +28.5 |
Dec. 15, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (221-209) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.3% | -30.3 |
Dec. 14, 2021 | Creating a State Department position to monitor and combat Islamophobia around the world (219-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.3% | -26.3 |
Dec. 9, 2021 | Limiting the power of the executive branch and increasing disclosure requirements for presidential and vice presidential candidates (220-208) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.8% | -29.8 |
Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (221-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.5% | -30.5 |
Nov. 19, 2021 | Providing money to expand social safety programs, fight climate change and lower health care costs (220-213) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.0% | -24.0 |
Nov. 5, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (228-206) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.3% | -41.3 |
Nov. 4, 2021 | Protecting older job applicants from discrimination in the hiring process (224-200) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.7% | -39.7 |
Oct. 26, 2021 | Reauthorizing and expanding funding for preventing domestic violence (228-200) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 43.7% | -43.7 |
Oct. 22, 2021 | Expanding workplace requirements for breastfeeding accommodations (276-149) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 73.2% | -73.2 |
Sept. 29, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through December 16, 2022 (219-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.1% | -28.1 |
Sept. 24, 2021 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (218-211) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 25.5% | -25.5 |
Sept. 21, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (220-211) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.3% | -26.3 |
Aug. 24, 2021 | Strengthening the Voting Rights Act (219-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.3% | -26.3 |
Aug. 24, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (220-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.3% | -26.3 |
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 (416-11) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.1% | +1.9 |
July 28, 2021 | Making appropriations for the State Department, foreign operations and related programs (217-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.5% | -33.5 |
July 22, 2021 | Increasing the number of and expediting the process for visas available to Afghans who worked on behalf of the U.S. government in Afghanistan (407-16) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.1% | +2.9 |
July 21, 2021 | Requiring the Environmental Protection Agency to implement regulations around certain chemicals (241-183) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.3% | -55.3 |
July 20, 2021 | Allowing the Federal Trade Commission to recover money for victims of illegal business practices (221-205) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 35.6% | -35.6 |
July 1, 2021 | Providing money for transportation and water infrastructure (221-201) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 31.0% | -31.0 |
June 25, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (229-191) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 46.4% | -46.4 |
June 24, 2021 | Providing contraceptives to veterans without co-pays (245-181) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 58.9% | -58.9 |
June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (219-210) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.7% | -26.7 |
June 24, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (218-208) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 30.7% | -30.7 |
June 23, 2021 | Protecting older employees from workplace discrimination (247-178) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.1% | -61.1 |
June 17, 2021 | Repealing the 2002 authorization of military force against Iraq (268-161) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.9% | +36.1 |
May 20, 2021 | Providing money for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack (213-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 34.5% | -34.5 |
May 19, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (252-175) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 61.5% | -61.5 |
May 18, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (364-62) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.4% | +8.6 |
May 14, 2021 | Protecting pregnant employees from workplace discrimination (315-101) Victoria Spartz's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.8% | +16.2 |
May 13, 2021 | Providing consumers with debt-related protections (215-207) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.9% | -23.9 |
April 22, 2021 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.7% | -26.7 |
April 21, 2021 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.6% | -26.6 |
April 21, 2021 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.4% | -27.4 |
April 16, 2021 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 64.0% | -64.0 |
April 15, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (217-210) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 27.4% | -27.4 |
March 18, 2021 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 59.3% | -59.3 |
March 18, 2021 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 42.8% | -42.8 |
March 17, 2021 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 60.8% | -60.8 |
March 11, 2021 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 26.6% | -26.6 |
March 11, 2021 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 38.7% | -38.7 |
March 10, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.0% | -24.0 |
March 9, 2021 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.8% | -33.8 |
March 3, 2021 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 28.6% | -28.6 |
March 3, 2021 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.6% | -29.6 |
Feb. 26, 2021 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.7% | -39.7 |
Feb. 25, 2021 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 31.6% | -31.6 |
Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Victoria Spartz's Vote: No | support | No | | 79.6% | -79.6 |
Average | 14.5% | 44.8% | -30.2 |
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