Sen. Scott, Tim
Republican · South Carolina · Senate
Timothy Eugene Scott is an American businessman and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first African-American senator in the Southern United States to be directly elected, the longest-serving African-American senator in U.S. history, the first African-American to serve in both the House and Senate, and the first African-American senator to chair a full committee.
Voting record
- Participation: shows up to vote 93% of the time.
- Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 21.3% of the time.
- Alignment with the district's political lean: 74.3%.
- Bills sponsored: 250; passed into law: 2.
Recent votes by Sen. Scott, Tim
- Voted Nay on Study health career training grant outcomes — Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Voted Nay on Tighten financial sanctions on Russia over Ukraine — CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
- Voted Yea on Increase Medicare and Medicaid payments to rural hospitals — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Voted Yea on Speaker reserves procedural placeholder for House — Secure the Border Act of 2023
- Voted Yea on Exempts active military pay from income tax — National Defense Authorization Act FY2024
- Voted Nay on Procedural placeholder reserved for Speaker — Lower Drug Costs Now Act
- Voted Nay on Raises passenger fees for airport improvements — Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
- Voted Yea on Speaker reserves bill number for future legislation — Parents Bill of Rights Act
- Voted Nay on Require Muslim Brotherhood foreign terrorist designation — Clean Energy for America Act
- Voted Yea on Eliminates funding for National Endowment for Humanities — Social Security Fairness Act
- Voted Nay on Extends federal funding through early 2025 — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
- Voted Nay on Close loophole for large independent banks — Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
- Voted Yea on Shortens wetland disposal ban periods — FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
- Voted Nay on U.S. semiconductor and tech R&D investment surge — A bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes.
- Voted Yea on Blocks federal vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard".
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