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Democratic representative for Massachusetts’s 9th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Keating votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Keating’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 Keating votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Keating’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
+17.6% | 100.0% | +1.9 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Keating vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.7% | +0.3 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.4% | +4.6 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 96.6% | +3.4 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.3% | +0.7 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.0% | +3.0 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.4% | +0.6 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.6% | +0.4 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.2% | +1.8 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.1% | +0.9 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.2% | +0.8 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 99.8% | +0.2 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) William Keating's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 86.8% | +13.2 |
| Average | 100.0% | 98.1% | +1.9 | |||
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