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Republican representative for Missouri’s 6th district
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Graves votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Graves’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 Graves votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Graves’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-28.3% | 0.0% | -1.0 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Graves vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| April 22 | Admitting Washington, D.C., as a state (216-208) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No |  | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Requiring that people detained while trying to enter the country have access to legal counsel (217-207) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 21 | Limiting the president's authority over immigration restrictions (218-208) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| April 16 | Requiring health care and social service employers to have plans for preventing workplace violence (254-166) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 8.3% | -8.3 |
| March 18 | Allowing farmworkers to get legal immigration status (247-174) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.2% | -3.2 |
| March 18 | Creating a path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children (228-197) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 17 | Reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act (244-172) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 3.3% | -3.3 |
| March 11 | Increasing the waiting period for federal gun background checks (219-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 11 | Requiring background checks for all gun sales (227-203) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 10 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (220-211) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 9 | Expanding unionization and collective bargaining rights (225-206) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Expanding voting rights, changing campaign finance regulations and strengthening ethics rules (220-210) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| March 3 | Combating brutality and racial discrimination by police (220-212) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 26 | Protecting wilderness areas in Colorado, California, Washington and Arizona from development (227-200) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Feb. 25 | Prohibiting discrimination because of sex, gender identity and sexual orientation (224-206) Sam Graves's Vote: No | support | No | | 0.0% | 0.0 |
| Jan. 21 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (326-78) Sam Graves's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 67.0% | ||
| Average | 0.0% | 1.0% | -1.0 | |||
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