Bobby ScottBobby Scott VA-03

Current Position: US Representative of District 3 since 1993
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Position:  Ranking Member, Education and Labor Committee
District: Cities of Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth, and part of the independent city of Chesapeake.

In the 118th Congress, Congressman Scott serves as the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce—his fifth term as the Committee’s Democratic leader. Throughout his tenure, he has advanced legislation that improves equity in education, frees students from the burdens of debt, protects and expands access to affordable health care, ensures workers have a safe workplace where they can earn a living wage free from discrimination, and guarantees seniors have a secure and dignified retirement. Congressman Scott also serves on the Committee on the Budget where he is a leading voice on fiscal policy.  sponsored the Neighborhood Assistance Act, which provides tax credits to businesses for donations made to approved social service and crime prevention programs.

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Current Position: US Representative of District 3 since 1993
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Position:  Ranking Member, Education and Labor Committee
District: Cities of Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth, and part of the independent city of Chesapeake.

In the 118th Congress, Congressman Scott serves as the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce—his fifth term as the Committee’s Democratic leader. Throughout his tenure, he has advanced legislation that improves equity in education, frees students from the burdens of debt, protects and expands access to affordable health care, ensures workers have a safe workplace where they can earn a living wage free from discrimination, and guarantees seniors have a secure and dignified retirement. Congressman Scott also serves on the Committee on the Budget where he is a leading voice on fiscal policy.  sponsored the Neighborhood Assistance Act, which provides tax credits to businesses for donations made to approved social service and crime prevention programs.

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About

Bobby Scott 1Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott is currently serving his thirteenth term in Congress representing Virginia’s Third Congressional District.  Prior to serving in the House of Representatives, he served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1978 to 1983 and in the Senate of Virginia from 1983 to 1993.

During his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Congressman Scott successfully sponsored laws critical to Virginians in education, employment, health care, social services, economic development, crime prevention and consumer protection.  His legislative successes included laws that increased Virginia’s minimum wage, created the Governor’s Employment and Training Council and improved health care benefits for women, infants and children.  He also sponsored the Neighborhood Assistance Act, which provides tax credits to businesses for donations made to approved social service and crime prevention programs.

Congressman Scott has the distinction of being the first African-American elected to Congress from the Commonwealth of Virginia since Reconstruction and only the second African-American elected to Congress in Virginia’s history.  Having a maternal grandfather of Filipino ancestry also gives him the distinction of being the first American with Filipino ancestry to serve as a voting member of Congress.

Congressman Scott currently serves as the Ranking Member on the Committee on Education and the Workforce, a committee he has served on since his arrival to Congress in 1993. In his capacity as the most senior Democrat on the Committee, he is leading the fight for access to quality early, secondary and higher education for all of America’s children with an emphasis on solving the growing problem of student debt, closing the achievement gap and dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline.  In 2015, he was one of the four primary negotiators of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the first time in 13 years replacing the No Child Left Behind Act.  Additionally, he is focused on ensuring that millions of Americans have the opportunity to go to work every day and know that they will be treated fairly, paid a decent and living wage, given a safe environment in which do their jobs and provided access to affordable health care.

From the beginning of his tenure in Congress, Congressman Scott has led efforts to pass comprehensive juvenile justice reform and crime prevention legislation. Towards that end, he has introduced the Youth PROMISE Act, which would provide resources to state and local governments for evidence-based strategies and programs to prevent juvenile crime.

As a part of his effort to provide universal health care for all, prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act, Congressman Scott sponsored the All Healthy Children Act, which sought to ensure that millions of uninsured children in the United States have access to a comprehensive set of health care services.

Congressman Scott is also a recognized champion of the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and has fought to protect the rights and civil liberties of all Americans.  In 1997, he protected the right of all children with disabilities to obtain a free and appropriate education under the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by leading a successful effort to defeat amendments aimed at curtailing that right for some children.  Congressman Scott also actively opposed passage of the USA PATRIOT Act and has been a leading critic of both Republican and Democratic Administrations’ misuse of surveillance authorities.  He is also a leading opponent of efforts to permit employment discrimination in federally funded programs.

As the former Chairman and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security on the House Judiciary Committee, Congressman Scott is also a leading advocate for reforming our nation’s broken criminal justice system. Congressman Scott sponsored the Death in Custody Reporting Act, which was originally signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 2000 and its subsequent reauthorization was signed into law by President Barack Obama in 2014. The law requires state and local law enforcement agencies to report to the U.S. Department of Justice how many individuals die each year while in police custody or during the course of an arrest.  In 2010, Congressman Scott successfully led efforts in the House to pass the Fair Sentencing Act, one of the first successful reductions in a mandatory minimum sentence in decades.  The law reduced the unfair sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

From 2013 to 2014, he co-chaired the House Judiciary Committee’s Over-Criminalization Task Force with Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI).  Based on the findings of their task force, Scott and Sensenbrenner co-authored the Safe, Accountable, Fair, and Effective (SAFE) Justice Act, which has been recognized as one of the most comprehensive criminal justice reform bills in a generation and has attracted significant support from across the political spectrum.

Having served for a total of six years on the House Budget Committee, Congressman Scott is also a leading voice on fiscal policy and reducing the deficit.  He was an ardent opponent of the 2001 and 2003 Bush-era tax cuts that were skewed towards the wealthiest Americans and contributed trillions to the national debt.  He opposed the 2008 taxpayer-funded bailout of Wall Street and the 2013 Fiscal Cliff deal that permanently extended most of the Bush-era tax cuts.  He is dedicated to restoring fiscal sanity to the federal budget process in order to balance the federal budget and has advocated for the return of statutory Pay-As-You-Go budget rules, which helped bring the federal budget from deficit to surplus in the 1990s.

Congressman Scott is also a strong supporter of our nation’s military readiness as well as our troops and their safety.  He is a leading advocate for improving and increasing funding for veterans’ benefits and health care, especially mental health care, and was the lead sponsor in the House of Senator Jim Webb’s Post-9/11 G.I. Bill that was signed into law by President George W. Bush in 2008. Congressman Scott has routinely received an “A” from the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America for his service and commitment to our veterans.

In 2010, The Hill, a Capitol Hill newspaper, recognized Congressman Scott as one of the 25 hardest working Members of Congress. The Hill later recognized him in 2012 as one of Capitol Hill’s 50 most beautiful people.

Congressman Scott was born on April 30, 1947 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Newport News, Virginia.  He is a graduate of Harvard College and Boston College Law School.  After graduating law school, he returned home to Newport News and practiced law from 1973 to 1991.  He received an honorable discharge for his service in the Massachusetts National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.

Congressman Scott is a member of St. Augustine’s Episcopal Church in Newport News and is a member of many professional, community, and civic boards and organizations.

Personal

Full Name:  Robert ‘Bobby’ C. Scott

Gender:  Male

Family:  Divorced

Birth Date:  04/30/1947

Birth Place:  Washington, DC

Home City:  Newport News, VA

Religion:  Episcopalian

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Education

Offices

Washington Office
1201 Longworth House Office Bldg
Washington, DC 20515
Phone: (202) 225-8351
Fax: (202) 225-8354

District Office
2600 Washington Ave.
Suite 1010
Newport News, VA 23607
Phone: (757) 380-1000
Fax: (757) 928-6694 H

Contact

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Finances

SCOTT, ROBERT C (BOBBY) has recently run in 5 congressional races, winning 5 of them. The candidate has raised a total of $2,795,421.

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Committees

For the 118th Congress (2023-2025), Congressman Scott has been assigned to the following committees:

COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORKFORCE, RANKING MEMBER

Congressman Scott currently serves as Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and this is his fifth term as the Committee’s Democratic leader. During the 116th and 117th Congresses (2019-2023), he served as Chairman of what was then called the Committee on Education and Labor. As the Ranking Member of the committee, he is working to expand access to the building blocks of a strong middle class – a quality education, a rewarding job, and affordable health care. The Committee on Education and the Workforce’s purpose is to ensure that Americans’ needs are addressed so that students and workers may move forward in a changing school system and a competitive global economy. The Committee oversees education and workforce programs that affect all Americans, from early learning through secondary education, from job training through retirement. The Committee on Education and the Workforce has jurisidiction over a wide range of legislation, including the Workforce Investment Act, the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the Higher Education Act, the Juvenile Justice Delinquency and Prevention Act, the Older Americans Act, and the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Congressman Scott has served on the Committee since 1993, but took a leave of absence during the 108th Congress (2003-2005) to serve on the House Budget Committee. In 2014, he was elected by the House Democratic Caucus to serve as Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce. In 2019, he was elected by the House Democratic Caucus to serve as Chairman of what was then called the Committee on Education and Labor, and reelected in 2020.

COMMITTEE ON THE BUDGET

Congressman Scott has been appointed to serve on the Committee on the Budget for the 118th Congress (2023-2025), and has previously served on the committee in the 108th (2003-2005), 110th (2007-2009), 111th (2009-2011), 116th (2019-2021), and 117th (2021-2023) Congresses. The Committee’s chief responsibility is to draft an annual concurrent resolution that provides a Congressional framework for spending and revenue levels, the federal surplus or deficit, and public debt. The budget resolution can contain reconciliation instructions directing authorizing committees to change laws in their jurisdiction to change revenues or mandatory spending levels. The resolution also can include mechanisms that aid in enforcing budget procedures in general or for particular purposes. In drafting the budget resolution, the Committee examines the President’s annual budget request, as well as economic and fiscal projections from the Congressional Budget Office. The Committee also has jurisdiction over budget process laws, and tracks the budgetary effects of legislative action.

Previous Committee Assignments:

Member, Congressional Army Aviation Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Bike Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Caucus on Black Women and Girls, present

Co-Chair/Member, Congressional Caucus on Human Trafficking, present

Member, Congressional Crime Prevention & Youth Development Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Firefighters Caucus, present

Member, Congressional LGBT Equaltiy Caucus, present

Co-Chair, Congressional My Brother’s Keeper Caucus, present

Member, Congressional National Parks Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Out of Poverty Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Pre-Kindergarten Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Submarine Caucus, present

Co-Chair, Congressional Voting Rights Caucus, present

Member, Disaster Relief Caucus, present

Member, Financial and Economic Literacy Caucus, present

Member, House Small Brewers Caucus, present

Member, National Marine Sanctuaries Caucus, present

Co-Chair, United States-Philippines Frienship Caucus, present

Member, Congressional Arts Caucus

Member, Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus

Member, Congressional Black Caucus

Member, Congressional Center Aisle Caucus

Co-Chair, Congressional Chesapeake Bay Watershed Caucus

Member, Congressional Childhood Cancer Caucus

Member, Congressional Children’s Caucus

Member, Congressional Coast Guard Caucus

Member, Congressional Commuter Caucus

Member, Congressional Democratic Caucus

Member, Congressional Diabetes Caucus

Member, Congressional Empowered Communities Caucus

Member, Congressional Fire Services Caucus

Member, Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus

Member, Congressional Hellenic Caucus

Member, Congressional India Caucus

Member, Congressional Infant Health and Safety Caucus

Member, Congressional Labor and Working Families Caucus

Member, Congressional Military Family Caucus

Member, Congressional Modeling and Simulation Caucus

Member, Congressional Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Caucus

Member, Congressional Science and National Labs Caucus

Member, Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus

Member, Congressional Steel Caucus

Member, Congressional Tourism Caucus

Member, Congressional Urban Caucus

Member, Congressional Veterans Mental Health Caucus

Member, Defense Communities Caucus

Former Ranking Member, Education and the Workforce Committee, United States House of Representatives

Former Chair, House Committee on Education and Labor

Co-Chair, House Democratic Caucus Crime and Drug Task Force

Member, House Zoo and Aquarium Caucus

Member, International Religious Freedom Caucus

Former Member, Joint Select Committee on Solvency of Multiemployer Pension Plans, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Judiciary Committee, United States House of Representatives

Member, Member Congressional Army Caucus

Member, Metropolitan Mobility Caucus

Former Member, Over Criminalization Task Force, United States House of Representatives

Former Chair, Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security, United States House of Representatives

Former Member, Subcommittee on Health, Employment, Labor, and Pensions, United States House of Representatives

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As a co-chair of the Congressional Chesapeake Bay Watershed Task Force, Congressman Scott believes the Chesapeake Bay is one America’s greatest treasures and that it is vital that we protect and pr


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Civil Rights
Congressman Scott is an ardent defender of civil rights. Although America has made great strides in civil rights in the past few decades, current events have shown that we still have a long way to go. The current threats to civil rights are not the explicit actions our predecessors may have seen and experienced. Instead, they are subtle actions that, if allowed to continue, could threaten our rights and lives in the future.

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COVID-19 is a respiratory illness that can spread from person to person. The virus that causes COVID-19 is a novel coronavirus.


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Scott at the Shipyard
We all know that the current economic climate has taken a toll on many families across the nation and that the economy has been slow to recover from the deep recession. Congressman Scott believes the best long-term way we can create jobs and get people back to work is investing in education and training, beginning with early education and continuing through college or vocational education, as well as adult education and training.

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Education Sec. Duncan and Rep. Scott read to students.
As the Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, Congressman Scott believes that if we are going to properly prepare our country’s youth for their future, we must ensure that we are giving them the fundamental tools necessary to grow into skillful and productive members of the workforce, starting from the beginning of childhood.

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Wind turbine and blue sky

Protecting and conserving our environment is one of Congressman Scott’s top priorities.


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Faith Based Initiative

Religious organizations have long been recepients of federal funds.


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FY2016 Federal Budget
Congressman Scott supports reducing our budget deficit and balancing the federal budget, but not at the expense of cutting vital government functions, such as defense, education, transportation, Social Security and Medicare.

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Rep. Scott talks with local police officials.

Congressman Scott is a vice-chair of the House Democratic Caucus Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, which was convened by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in response to the tragic mass shooting at Sand


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Doctor and Patient
On March 23, 2010, President Obama signed into law the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly referred to as Obamacare. While a strong supporter of a single-payer health care system, Congressman Scott tirelessly worked with his colleagues in Congress to pass the Affordable Care Act. Four years later, the law’s provisions are improving the lives of millions of people in the Commonwealth of Virginia and across the United States.

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Immigration
Congressman Scott supports fair and humane immigration policies that will keep our borders secure and our citizens safe, assure that those who are fleeing violence and oppression are not thrust back into danger, prevent families from being ripped apart, promote a flourishing economy, and treat all individuals who attempt to enter into our country with respect and dignity.

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Newport News Shipbuilding
The 3rd Congressional District is home to Newport News Shipbuilding, the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, and many small and medium sized ship repair yards. Congressman Scott is honored to represent thousands of the nation’s best shipbuilders. In Congress, Congressman Scott is a proud and active member of the bipartisan Congressional Shipbuilding Caucus. He has worked with his colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support shipbuilding and our nation’s shipbuilders in Congress.

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Social Security Card

Social Security is one of the most successful and important government programs ever enacted.


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Port of Virginia

Below are statements Congressman Scott has released on Trade Promotion Authority and the Trans Pacific Partnership.


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Voting Rights

Congressman Scott believes that voting is the very foundation of our democracy. To underscore his belief, he often quotes the Supreme Court’s decision in Wesberry v.


Better guide well the young than reclaim them when old,
For the voice of true wisdom is calling.
‘To rescue the fallen is good, but ’tis best

Governance

Voting Rights

Congressman Scott believes that voting is the very foundation of our democracy.  To underscore his belief, he often quotes the Supreme Court’s decision in Wesberry v. Sanders (1964), where the Court states:

No right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live.  Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.

Congressman Scott is an ardent supporter of the Voting Rights Act and was instrumental in the passage of the Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Coretta Scott King, César Chávez, Barbara C. Jordan, William C. Velásquez, and Dr. Hector P. Garcia Voting Rights Act Reauthorization and Amendments Act of 2006.  In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision in Shelby County v. Holder, a ruling that significantly undermined the effectiveness of the Voting Rights Act, Congressman Scott joined a small group of his colleagues in Congress to delicately craft a bi-partisan legislative fix to appropriately address the Court’s concerns in Shelby County and ensure that the core protections of the Voting Rights Act are restored.

Congressman Scott is working tirelessly to ensure that this legislation passes Congress so that no one’s right to vote is infringed.

June 25, 2019 Press Release

Washington, DC — Today marks the sixth anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Shelby County v. Holder decision, which struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Members of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) released the following statements: “Today marks six years since the disastrous Supreme Court decision in the Shelby County v. Holder case which struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. The decision was a huge setback for voting rights and dismantled fundamental voter protections that had been in place for nearly 50 years.

March 8, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 1, the For The People Act: “The For The People Act is a historic legislative package to help reform our democracy. H.R. 1 will help restore political power to the people by strengthening ethics laws, ending the culture of corruption in Washington and reducing the role of dark, unaccountable money in politics.”

June 12, 2017 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott issued the following statement to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Loving v. Virginia: “In 1959, Mildred and Richard Loving were charged with violating Virginia’s ban on interracial marriage. This injustice launched a courageous legal challenge that culminated in the Supreme Court ruling on this day, 50 years ago, that the United States would no longer allow race-based restrictions on the right to marry. The Loving Court unanimously stated that marriage is one of the ‘basic civil rights of man,’ confirming that America is a place of equality and freedom.

September 4, 2016 In The News

IN THE 1964 LANDMARK decision Wesberry v. Sanders, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that “[n]o right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.” Sadly, many state and local governments responded to this assessment by continuing their sordid history of blocking access to the ballot box. To ensure that American citizens were not stripped of this precious constitutional right, Congress passed and President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

July 23, 2016 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement on yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia in Howell v. McAuliffe striking down Governor Terry McAuliffe’s April 2016 executive order restoring the voting rights of more than 200,000 formerly incarcerated individuals: “Yesterday’s decision by the Supreme Court of Virginia is very disappointing. Virginia is one of the few states in the Union that still permanently disenfranchises formerly incarcerated individuals who have already paid their debt to society. The history behind the reasoning for this provision of Virginia law is striking and appalling.

August 6, 2015 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott released the following statement on the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965: “The Voting Rights Act was one of the most consequential pieces of legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. The right to vote is the very foundation of our democracy. The Supreme Court noted in their 1964 decision in Wesberry v. Sanders that ‘no right is more precious in a free country than that of having a voice in the election of those who make the laws under which, as good citizens, we must live. Other rights, even the most basic, are illusory if the right to vote is undermined.’ For the last 50 years, the Voting Rights Act has helped to guarantee that no one’s right to vote is undermined. The law has been instrumental in increasing voter participation, allowing minority communities to elect candidates of their choice, and increasing the number of African Americans and other minorities in elected positions at the local, state and federal levels of government.

October 7, 2014 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott issued the following statement on the U.S. District Court in Richmond overturning the boundary lines of Virginia’s Third Congressional District and mandating the Virginia General Assembly redraw the district by April 2015: “I was not involved in this lawsuit. However, during the last round of redistricting in 2011, I was a strong proponent of the redistricting plan sponsored by State Senator Mamie Locke, which made all congressional districts in the Commonwealth more compact and contiguous. I hope and expect the General Assembly will more equitably and appropriately balance the influence of all Virginia’s voters, as mandated by this decision, when they redraw the third congressional district and adjacent congressional districts next session.”

September 25, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott, the Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security and Investigations on the House Judiciary Committee, released the following statement on Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement that he will resign from the Department of Justice upon the confirmation of his successor: “Attorney General Holder has diligently served as our nation’s top law enforcement official for the last six years. During his tenure, I have enjoyed working with him on efforts to reform our nation’s sentencing laws, protect voting rights, and guarantee the civil rights of all Americans. His leadership was instrumental in passage of the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which I sponsored in the House.

August 6, 2014 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott released the following statement on the 49th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson signing into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965: “The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was one of the most consequential pieces of legislation of the Civil Rights Movement. For the last 49 years, the Voting Rights Act has helped ensure that no one’s right to vote is infringed. Unfortunately, as we mark this anniversary, we must recognize that we still have work to do to restore the core protections of the Voting Rights Act. Last year’s Supreme Court decision in Shelby County v. Holder dealt a striking blow to the Voting Rights Act by ruling the coverage formula in Section 4 of the law unconstitutional.

April 2, 2014 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Tonight, Congressman Robert C. “Bobby” Scott (VA-03) was presented a Congressional Leadership Award by the National Urban League for his work on protecting voting rights for all Americans and for his leadership role in the introduction and championing of the Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2014.

Federal Budget

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Congressman Scott supports reducing our budget deficit and balancing the federal budget, but not at the expense of cutting vital government functions, such as defense, education, transportation, Social Security and Medicare.

 

Congressman Scott understands that deficit reduction requires making sometimes tough, unpopular choices. During his first year serving in Congress, Congressman Scott supported the 1993 Clinton budget, which narrowly passed the House and the Senate. The 1993 Clinton budget, also known as the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, helped put the nation on a strong fiscal path and turned federal budget deficits into federal budget surpluses. By 2001, the Congressional Budget Office projected a ten year surplus of $5.6 trillion. At the time, that would have been enough to completely eliminate the national debt held by the public by 2008, and we would owe nothing to China, Japan, and Saudi Arabia.

Citing likely fiscal disaster, Congressman Scott opposed President George W. Bush’s 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Congressman Scott correctly pointed out that these tax cuts were not paid for and would wreak havoc on the budget. Combined with the Bush Administration’s unpaid for Medicare prescription drug plan, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, an economy deep in recession, and these tax cuts, by the end of the Bush Administration, the annual federal budget deficit had climbed to $1.4 trillion and instead of paying off the national debt held by the public, the total national debt ballooned from $5.7 trillion in 2001 to $10.7 trillion by the end of 2008.

In late 2010, when these Bush-era tax cuts were set to expire, Congressman Scott opposed the two year extension because the nation could not afford them and if they continued to be extended, it would likely force Congress to make deep cuts in vital government services, including Social Security and Medicare.

In 2011, Congressman Scott opposed the Budget Control Act, which conditioned an increase in the nation’s debt ceiling on Congress cutting approximately $2.2 trillion from the federal budget over the next 10 years. $1.2 trillion of those $2.2 trillion in cuts was contingent on whether a Congressional deficit reduction committee, commonly referred to as the “Super Committee,” reported out a deficit reduction plan totaling $1.2 trillion by the end of 2011. If the Super Committee failed, which it did, the $1.2 trillion in cuts would be implemented through a draconian across-the-board budget cutting process known as “sequestration.” Congressman Scott voted against the Budget Control Act because Congress failed to address a driving factor of the nation’s budget deficit – the Bush-era tax cuts – and its failure to do so would set the stage for sequestration and cuts to Social Security and Medicare.

In early 2013, during the fiscal cliff debacle, Congress permanently extended a majority of the Bush-era tax cuts at a ten-year cost, as estimated by the Congressional Budget Office, of $3.9 trillion and failed to cancel the $1.2 trillion sequester. Congressman Scott opposed the so-called “Fiscal Cliff Deal” because it permanently extended these unaffordable tax cuts and did nothing to address sequestration, which would and has had a significant negative impact on the Commonwealth of Virginia and his constituents.

In order to responsibly reduce our deficit, Congressman Scott believes that it is imperative that Congress go back and review the Fiscal Cliff Deal and cancel some of the tax cuts that were permanently extended in order to cancel the sequester. He also believes that Congress should review our tax code and end the numerous special interest tax breaks that riddle our tax code.

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July 30, 2019 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Representatives Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Donald McEachin (VA-04) will host a town hall meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia. This town hall will be an opportunity for constituents to learn more about the Representatives’ efforts to protect access to affordable health care, as well as hear more about the critical legislation House Democrats have passed in the first 200 days of the new Congress. This will be an opportunity for residents of the 3rd and 4th congressional districts to provide comments and ask questions.

July 25, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 3877, the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2019, which prevents draconian, across-the-board spending cuts scheduled for FY2020 and FY2021. It also suspends the debt ceiling for the next two years. “Eight years ago, congressional Republicans almost brought our country to the brink of fiscal calamity by playing a dangerous game of chicken with our nation’s debt ceiling.

June 25, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) praised passage of several fiscal year 2020 appropriations bills, putting the House of Representatives on track to send all twelve appropriations bills to the Senate by the end of June. Congressman Scott offered several amendments to these bills that were ultimately adopted by the full House of Representatives.

March 11, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), a member of the House Budget Committee, issued the following statement on the release of President Trump’s budget for Fiscal Year 2020: “The President’s budget highlights his priorities – unfortunately American families do not appear to be one of those priorities. In order to protect massive tax cuts for corporations and the wealthiest among us, this budget decimates funding for infrastructure, civil works projects, Medicare and Medicaid, and many other critical programs. Instead of investing in our future, this budget takes food from those most in need, makes housing harder to access for those who have been left behind, and ignores the needs of America’s children and working families.”

January 24, 2019 Press Release

Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after being appointed to the House Budget Committee for the 116th Congress: “I am very excited to return to the House Budget Committee,” said Congressman Scott. “We must restore fiscal sanity to the federal budget process in order to balance the federal budget. Under Republicans’ unified control of the federal government, we have exploded the deficit to give tax breaks to corporations and the top 1% without paying for them. I know that under Chairman John Yarmuth’s leadership, we will create a budget that will be For the People and prioritize workers and the middle class instead of the wealthy and well-connected.”

January 11, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement: “Thousands of federal employees did not receive their pay checks today because President Trump is holding them as hostages to get funding for a wall that he always promised would be paid for by Mexico. The shutdown has caused unnecessary financial pain to thousands but also jeopardized the security of our nation. This must stop.

December 22, 2018 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement: “Republicans currently control the House of Representatives, the Senate and the White House, yet we are entering the third government shutdown this year. The Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan solution to keep the government open until February 8th while we continue to debate the best way to fund the government for the remainder of the fiscal year, and House Democrats were willing to support that compromise.

August 30, 2018 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA. – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) issued the following statement after President Trump announced that his Administration would cut the cost-of-living adjustment for civilian federal employees and would eliminate locality pay across the board: “President Trump’s announcement today that he is seeking to freeze locality pay and deny federal employees a cost-of-living increase for 2019 is insulting to our federal workforce. It is puzzling that the President would do this at a time when his Administration has insisted that our economy is doing so well and his tax cuts for the wealthy are ‘paying for themselves.’

June 7, 2018 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, 6 months ago, Congress passed a tax cut that cost almost $2 trillion that overwhelmingly benefited corporations and the wealthy. Today, the Republicans are asking struggling children and families to foot the bill. Nearly half of the $15 billion in cuts in the Trump-GOP recessions package targets the Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. While $7 billion may be a rounding error in the corporate tax cut, eliminating this funding from CHIP will jeopardize its ability to ensure access to healthcare for the children and families who depend on the program every year.

April 12, 2018 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to H.J. Res. 2. We often get distracted by debating the title of a proposed constitutional amendment without getting into serious discussion about whether or not the specific provisions will actually help balance the budget. If we are ever going to balance the budget, the fact is it is going to require Members to cast some tough votes, and many of these votes will be career-ending votes, and a constitutional amendment calling itself the balanced budget amendment cannot change that reality.

Human Rights

Civil Rights

Congressman Scott is an ardent defender of civil rights.  Although America has made great strides in civil rights in the past few decades, current events have shown that we still have a long way to go.  The current threats to civil rights are not the explicit actions our predecessors may have seen and experienced. Instead, they are subtle actions that, if allowed to continue, could threaten our rights and lives in the future. Examples of such actions include religious and racial profiling, xenophobic rhetoric in political discourse, expelling minorities from school in disproportionate rates, uneven application of justice, employment discrimination, restricting the right to vote, and pay inequality.

As one of the chief authors of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which was signed into law by President Obama in 2015, Congressman Scott ensured the bill lived up to the promise of Brown v. Board of Education and the original Elmenatary and Secondary Education Act by guaranteeing the right to an equal educational opportunity for every child, regardless of race, income, language status, or disability. As Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor he has also authored the Equity and Inclusion Enforcement Act and the Strength in Diversity Act of 2019. These bills will help guarantee equity in educaiton and help address racial inequities in public schools.

Congressman Scott has is also one of the chief sponsors of the Do No Harm Act, a bill that ensures nobody can use religious freedom as an excuse to discriminate against another person. He has also co-sponsored several pieces of legislation aimed at correcting or preventing the furtherance of discriminatory acts, such as the Equality Act and the End Racial Profiling Act of 2013. He also supported the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 and the first bill passed by the House under his leadership as Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor was the Paycheck Fairness Act.

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July 30, 2019 Press Release

NEWPORT NEWS, VA – Representatives Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Donald McEachin (VA-04) will host a town hall meeting in Chesapeake, Virginia. This town hall will be an opportunity for constituents to learn more about the Representatives’ efforts to protect access to affordable health care, as well as hear more about the critical legislation House Democrats have passed in the first 200 days of the new Congress. This will be an opportunity for residents of the 3rd and 4th congressional districts to provide comments and ask questions.

July 17, 2019 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of H.R. 3305, Designating the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 2509 George Mason Drive in Virginia Beach, Virginia as the “Ryan Keith Cox Post Office Building.” I appreciate my colleague, the gentlelady from Virginia, Mrs. LURIA, for introducing this bill.

July 9, 2019 In The News

When the Supreme Court made its landmark ruling in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education case, declaring racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-3rd, was 7 years old. Sixty-five years later, much has changed for the longtime congressman, the chair of the House Education and Labor Committee.

June 20, 2019 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair, I rise in support of my amendment to H.R. 3055, which would provide funding for the 400 Years of African-American History Commission. I would like to thank my colleagues, Representatives JOHN LEWIS, BARBARA LEE, and RASHIDA TLAIB for cosponsoring this amendment which would provide an additional $500,000 to support the work of this important commission. I would also like to thank Chairwoman LOWEY, Chairwoman MCCOLLUM and the Appropriations Committee for working with me to include funding in the underlying bill and their support for this amendment.

June 18, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chairman Bobby Scott (VA-03) and Rep. Don Beyer (VA-08) issued the following statement after the release of a recent GAO Report, entitled “K-12 Education: Education Should Take Immediate Action to Address Inaccuracies in Federal Restraint and Seclusion Data.” “The GAO’s report makes clear that school districts across the country are not accurately reporting the use of restraint or seclusion — disciplinary practices that jeopardize student and staff health and safety. In fact, the research shows these disciplinary practices make classrooms less safe. The report’s findings are consistent with the testimony the Committee on Education and Labor heard earlier this year and raise serious concerns about the prevalence of these harmful discipline practices. The Education Department must immediately implement GAO’s recommendations to give the public and Congress an accurate understanding of the use of restraint and seclusion.

May 21, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – The Peninsula Agency on Aging honored Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, with the Award of Prestige. “I am honored to receive the Award of Prestige from the Peninsula Agency on Aging,” said Congressman Scott. “Our local Agencies on Aging are relentless advocates for our community’s seniors. These organizations help provide our seniors with the health services, nutrition, and supportive services they need, which makes them less likely to suffer illness and injury, less likely to incur expensive hospital visits, and more likely to live independently.

May 21, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03) introduced the Fairness and Accuracy in Criminal Background Checks Act of 2019. The bill addresses the serious problems with the FBI database by requiring that records are accurate before they are sent to the agencies and employers that rely on them to make hiring and licensing decisions. “Far too often, many face an additional barrier created by faulty criminal background records released by the FBI,” said Congressman Scott.

May 20, 2019 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, I thank Dr. SCHRIER and Mr. Comer for sponsoring this important legislation. Madam Speaker, I rise today in support of the Stronger Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act, or Stronger CAPTA. Congress has a vital role in helping States protect children from physical injury and emotional trauma associated with child abuse and neglect.

May 17, 2019 Press Release

WASHINGTON, DC – Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), the Chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, issued the following statement after the House of Representatives passed H.R. 5, the Equality Act, a bill that would amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and other key laws to ensure that LBGTQ Americans receive the same legal protections afforded to other Americans: “Today is a historic day for the LGBTQ community. As Chairman, I was proud to consider this important civil rights legislation in the Education and Labor Committee. Today I am proud to stand with my House colleagues as we pass the Equality Act to ensure that LGBTQ Americans can live free from discrimination. The LGBTQ community has made many strides in the last few years, including marriage equality and the repeal of the Don’t Ask Don’t Tell policy.

May 17, 2019 Floor Statements

Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Madam Speaker, today is a historic day. Sixty-five years ago today, the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racially segregated schools were inherently unequal and, therefore, unconstitutional. Today is also a historic day for the LGBTQ community, because today the House of Representatives will pass the Equality Act.

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Virginia’s third congressional district is a United States congressional district in the Commonwealth of Virginia, serving the independent cities of Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth, and part of the independent city of Chesapeake. The district is represented by Democrat Bobby Scott. VA-03 is majority-minority and has a plurality Black electorate, and is heavily Democratic.

In 1788 Virginia’s 3rd congressional district consisted of all of modern Virginia including and west of the counties of Carroll, Floyd, Roanoke, Botetourt, Augusta and Rockingham. It also included what is today Pendleton County, West Virginia and also about the southern third of West Virginia which in 1788 was all Greenbrier County. This area that is today about 48 counties and 13 independent cities was in 1788 only nine counties.

In the 1790 census, this area had a population of 66,045. For the 1792 congressional elections the number of congressional districts in Virginia rose from 10 to 19. The only county that remained in the third district was Pendleton County. Harrison, Randolph, Hardy, Hampshire, Monongalia and Ohio Counties, all now in West Virginia were also in the district. This was all of northern West Virginia except the far eastern panhandle area. The new district’s 1790 population was 30,145

The 1800 census lead to another increase in Virginia’s congressional districts in 1802. The third district was again moved, this time to what was then Frederick and Shenandoah Counties in Virginia, which besides those counties also included the modern counties of Clarke, Warren and part of Page. The new 3rd district had a population of 38,767 in 1800.

For most of the time from the end of the Civil War to 1993, the 3rd district was a relatively compact district centered on Richmond. The district’s current configuration dates to 1993, when the Justice Department ordered Virginia to create a majority-minority district. At that time, portions of the old 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th districts were combined to create a new 3rd district.

The Virginia Legislature’s 2012 redistricting was found unconstitutional, in part because of racial gerrymandering, and replaced was with a court-ordered map on January 16, 2016 for the 2016 elections. From 1993 to 2016, the 3rd had covered most of the majority-black precincts in and around Hampton Roads and Richmond. The court-drawn map shifted the area near Richmond to the 4th district.

Wikipedia

Robert Cortez Scott (born April 30, 1947) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia’s 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the dean of Virginia’s congressional delegation and the first Filipino American voting member of Congress. The district serves most of the majority-black precincts of Hampton Roads, including all of the independent cities of Norfolk, Newport News (where he resides) and Portsmouth, and parts of the independent city of Chesapeake.[1] From 2019 to 2023, Scott was chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. He has been ranking member on that committee since 2023.

Early life, education and legal career

Scott was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Newport News, Virginia. He is of African American and Filipino descent.[2] His father, Charles Waldo Scott, was a pioneering African American surgeon[3] and in 1952 became the first African American appointed to the Newport News school board in the 20th century.[4] Scott’s mother Mae Hamlin-Scott, a graduate in chemistry of the University of Michigan, was an educator who taught science in the Newport News public schools.[5]

Scott graduated from Groton School in 1965. He received his B.A. in government from Harvard College in 1969 and his Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School in 1973. He is a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.

He was a lawyer in private practice in Newport News from 1973 to 1991.[6]

Military service

Scott is a former member of the Massachusetts Army National Guard (1970–73) and Army Reserve (1974–76).[7]

Virginia legislature

Scott was elected to the Virginia House of Delegates as a Democrat in 1977 and to the Senate of Virginia in 1982, after a census-based reapportionment changed district numbers (thus, his nominal predecessors were in fact representatives from Northern Virginia). In the Virginia legislature, Scott worked to allow the poor and children greater access to health care, as well as to increase the minimum wage, and increase job training. He also authored legislation providing tax credits to business that provide donations to serving local communities in preventing crime or improving social service delivery.

U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

Scott during the 109th Congress
1986

Scott first ran for Congress in 1986 in the 1st district, which included his home in Newport News. He lost to Republican incumbent Herb Bateman, 56%-44%.[8]

1992

In 1992, the Department of Justice directed the Virginia legislature to draw a black-majority district after the 1990 census. The legislature responded by shifting most of the black residents of Hampton Roads and Richmond into a newly created 3rd district. Scott won a three-way Democratic primary with 67% of the vote,[9] which was tantamount to election in this heavily Democratic district. In the general election, he defeated Republican Dan Jenkins 79%-21%.[10]

1994-2008

During this period, Scott was reelected every two years with at least 76% of the vote, except in 2004. That year, he was challenged by Republican Winsome Sears, a former State Delegate. He won with 69% of the vote, now the second-lowest winning percentage of his career. In 1994, Scott won 79.44% of the vote, defeating Republican Thomas E. Ward. In 1996, he won 82.12% of the vote, defeating Republican Eisle G. Holland. In 1998, he won 75.97% of the vote, defeating Independent Robert S. Barnett. He ran unopposed in 2000, 2002, 2006, and 2008.

2010

Scott defeated Republican Chuck Smith, a former JAG, 70%-27%.[11]

2012

After redistricting, Scott’s district was made even safer; he picked up all of Portsmouth and Newport News, as well as Petersburg. In 2008, President Barack Obama had carried the district with 76% of the vote; Scott won the new district with 78%,[12] defeating Air Force officer Dean Longo.[13] He easily won an 11th term with 81.26% of the vote.

Scott joined Obama in kicking off his campaign at Virginia Commonwealth University. The focus of the rally was largely on Obama’s timeline for leaving the Middle East.[14]

2016

The 3rd was reconfigured as a result of a court-ordered redistricting in 2015. It lost its territory in and around Richmond to the neighboring 4th district, but the new 3rd was no less Democratic than its predecessor.

Scott defeated Republican Marty Williams, 66%-33%, the lowest winning percentage of his career.

Tenure

Rep. Bobby Scott, D-VA, speaks in opposition to the Synthetic Drug Control Act of 2011 (HR 1254) by arguing that it is excessive in scope, imposes limits on researchers, and bypasses the existing process of banning substances. The legislation passed the next day, December 8, 2011, by 317–98. Video: C-SPAN

Scott is the first African American Representative from Virginia since Reconstruction. Also, having a maternal grandfather of Filipino ancestry makes Scott the first American of Filipino descent to serve as a voting member of Congress. His congressional district is the only one with a majority black population in Virginia. It was created in 1992 and has remained the state’s most Democratic district.[15]

Scott’s annual Labor Day picnic, usually held at his mother’s residence in Newport News, is a major campaign stop for statewide and federal candidates in Virginia.

In 1997, Scott was one of two votes against the creation of a national registry for crimes against children and sexually violent offenders.[16]

On November 7, 2009, Scott voted for the Affordable Health Care for America Act (HR 3962).

Scott has voted progressively in the House. He has supported increases in the minimum wage and has worked to eliminate anti-gay bias in the workplace.[17] In 2010, Scott co-sponsored the “Lee-Scott bill” with Barbara Lee to make it easier on individuals who had been on unemployment for 99 weeks without finding work. Of the bill, Lee said, “it is important that we put in place a safety net for those still looking for work. We cannot and will not allow our fellow Americans to fall by the wayside. Congressman Scott and I plan to continue to push for passage of this legislation because it is simply the right thing to do.”[18]

Scott (fourth from left) with President Obama and others at the signing of the Fair Sentencing Act in 2010

Scott supports LGBT rights. In 2009, he voted in favor of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act, a bill that expanded the federal hate crime law to cover crimes biased by the victim’s sexual orientation or gender identity.[19] In 2010, he voted in favor of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell Repeal Act.[20] In 2019, Scott voted in favor of the Equality Act, a bill that would expand the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 to ban discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity,[21] and urged Congress members to support the legislation.[22]

Scott was an outspoken opponent of the Bush administration. He opposed the Patriot Act, explaining that officials could abuse their power by promoting anti-terrorist security and develop unfair “racial profiling”. In 2002 Scott voted against the Iraq war resolution and did not support any of the Bush Doctrine in reference to the Iraq war.[15]

For his tenure as the chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee in the 116th Congress, Scott earned an “A” grade from the nonpartisan Lugar Center’s Congressional Oversight Hearing Index.[23]

Scott was among the 46 Democrats who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[24]

Scott voted with President Joe Biden‘s stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.[25]

Scott was one of two Democrats along with Nikema Williams who voted against the expulsion of former New York representative George Santos.[26]

Legislation sponsored

Scott introduced the Death in Custody Reporting Act of 2013 (H.R. 1447; 113th Congress) on April 9, 2013.[27] The bill would require the United States Department of Justice to collect data from U.S. states and territories about the deaths of prisoners in their custody.[28] States and territories would face monetary penalties for noncompliance. It would also require federal agencies to report on the deaths of prisoners in their custody.

Committee assignments

Caucuses

U.S. Senate speculation

When then-presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton selected Tim Kaine, a U.S. Senator from Virginia, as her running mate in July 2016, speculation arose about who would be nominated to replace Kaine in the Senate should the ticket win. In August 2016, former Democratic Governor of Virginia Douglas Wilder stated that he would want Governor Terry McAuliffe to appoint Scott to the seat, stating that it “would be good for the commonwealth, good for the Democratic Party, of which Bobby has been most supportive, and great for our nation.”[33] On November 8, Clinton and Kaine lost the election and Kaine remained in his Senate seat.[34]

Controversies

2017 sexual harassment allegation

On December 15, 2017, Marsheri Everson (also known as M. Reese Everson), a former congressional fellow who had worked in Scott’s office, alleged that Scott had sexually harassed her in 2013, touching her on the knee and back on separate occasions, then propositioning her with an inappropriate relationship after asking, “if you travel with me, are you going to be good?”[35] Scott strongly denied Everson’s claim.[35]

Everson was represented by two attorneys, one Jack Burkman, known for his involvement in the conspiracy theories surrounding the murder of Seth Rich[35] as well as his alleged involvement in a scheme to pay women to lie about sexual harassment claims against special counsel and former FBI Director Robert Mueller.[36][37]

Everson’s case against Scott is ongoing.

Knowledge of sexual assault allegations against Justin Fairfax

Scripps professor Vanessa C. Tyson alleged in 2019 that Virginia Lieutenant Governor Justin Fairfax sexually assaulted her in 2004 and approached Scott, a longtime friend, about these allegations between the time of Fairfax’s election in November 2017 and inauguration in January 2018; The Washington Post also contacted Scott about the allegations.[38][39][40][41] In a 2019 statement, Scott said, “Allegations of sexual assault need to be taken seriously. I have known Professor Tyson for approximately a decade and she is a friend. She deserves the opportunity to have her story heard.”[39][40][41]

Electoral history

Virginia’s 1st congressional district: 1986 results[42]
YearDemocratVotesPctRepublicanVotesPct
1986Bobby Scott63,36444%Herbert H. Bateman80,71356%*

*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1986, write-ins received 9 votes.

Virginia’s 3rd congressional district: Results 1992–2022[42]
YearDemocratVotesPctRepublicanVotesPct3rd PartyPartyVotesPct
1992Bobby Scott132,43279%Daniel Jenkins35,78021%Write-ins261
1994Bobby Scott108,53279%Thomas E. Ward28,08021%Write-ins8
1996Bobby Scott118,60382%Elsie Goodwyn Holland25,78118%Write-ins34
1998Bobby Scott48,12976%(no candidate)Robert S. BarnettIndependent14,45323%*
2000Bobby Scott137,52798%(no candidate)Write-ins3,2262%
2002Bobby Scott87,52196%(no candidate)Write-ins3,5524%
2004Bobby Scott159,37369%Winsome Sears70,19431%Write-ins325
2006Bobby Scott133,54696%(no candidate)Write-ins5,4484%
2008Bobby Scott230,91197%(no candidate)Write-ins7,3773%
2010Bobby Scott114,65670%Chuck Smith44,48827%James QuigleyLibertarian2,3832%*
2012Bobby Scott259,19981.27%Dean J. Longo58,93118.48%*Write-ins8060.25%
2014Bobby Scott139,19794.43%(no candidate)Write-ins8,2055.57%
2016Bobby Scott208,33766.70%Marty Williams103,28933.07%Write-ins7140.23%
2018Bobby Scott198,61591.02%(no candidate)Write-ins19,1078.08%
2020Bobby Scott233,32668.35%John Collick107,29931.43%Write-ins7360.22%
2022Bobby Scott139,65967.02%Terry Namkung67,66832.06%Write-ins5230.2%
*Write-in and minor candidate notes: In 1998, write-ins received 772 votes. In 2010, independent and write-in candidates received 2,210 votes.

See also

References

  1. ^ “3rd District of Virginia”. Congressman Bobby Scott. July 1, 2014. Retrieved February 9, 2018.
  2. ^ Edmund Silvestre (November 8, 2008). “Fil-Am elected to US Congress”. The Philippine Star. Archived from the original on November 10, 2008. Retrieved November 8, 2008.Jon Sterngass (January 1, 2009). Filipino Americans. Infobase Publishing. p. 107. ISBN 978-1-4381-0711-0.
  3. ^ “About Dr. Charles Waldo Scott”. Archived from the original on June 30, 2016.
  4. ^ KNEMEYER, Nelda (January 11, 1993). “C. Waldo Scott, Civil Rights Pioneer And Physician, Dies”. Newport News Daily Press.
  5. ^ “Mae Hamlin Scott, Rep. Scott’s mother and Mayor McKinley Price’s mother-in-law, dies at age 89”. Newport News Daily Press. November 25, 2010.
  6. ^ Democratic Party of Virginia-Hidden History: Congressman Bobby Scott
  7. ^ “Rep. Robert C. Scott (D-Va.)”. Roll Call. Economist Group. 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2014. Military Service: Mass. National Guard, 1970-74; Army Reserve, 1974-76“Rep. Scott, Huntington Ingalls President to Deliver Addresses at ODU’s 121st Commencement Exercises”. News @ ODU. Old Dominion University. November 2014. Retrieved December 18, 2014. He received an honorable discharge for his service in the Massachusetts National Guard and the United States Army Reserve.
  8. ^ “Our Campaigns – VA District 1 Race – Nov 04, 1986”. www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  9. ^ “Our Campaigns – VA District 3 – D Primary Race – Jun 09, 1992”. www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  10. ^ “Our Campaigns – VA District 3 Race – Nov 03, 1992”. www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  11. ^ “Our Campaigns – VA – District 03 Race – Nov 02, 2010”. www.ourcampaigns.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  12. ^ “Daily Kos Elections 2008 presidential results by congressional district (old CDs vs. new CDs)”. docs.google.com. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  13. ^ “CAMPAIGN 2012: Dean Longo challenges Bobby Scott”. CBS6. May 19, 2012.
  14. ^ “Obama kicks off campaign in Richmond”. Daily Press. May 5, 2012.
  15. ^ a b The Almanac of American Politics, National Journal Group, 2009.
  16. ^ “FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 420”. United States House of Representatives. Retrieved April 28, 2023.
  17. ^ [1], Project Vote Smart.
  18. ^ “Barbara Lee, Bobby Scott Introduce Bill For 99ers”. Huffington Post. December 20, 2010.
  19. ^ Final Vote Results for Roll Call 223
  20. ^ Final Vote Results for Roll Call 317
  21. ^ Final Vote Results for Roll Call 217
  22. ^ “House Debate on the Equality Act”. C-SPAN. May 17, 2019.
  23. ^ “Congressional Oversight Hearing Index”. Welcome to the Congressional Oversight Hearing Index. The Lugar Center.
  24. ^ Gans, Jared (May 31, 2023). “Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting no”. The Hill. Retrieved June 6, 2023.
  25. ^ Bycoffe, Aaron; Wiederkehr, Anna (April 22, 2021). “Does Your Member Of Congress Vote With Or Against Biden?”. FiveThirtyEight. Retrieved November 15, 2023.
  26. ^ Schnell, Mychael (December 1, 2023). “House expels George Santos in historic vote”. The Hill. Retrieved December 1, 2023.
  27. ^ “H.R. 1447 – Summary”. United States Congress. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  28. ^ Kasperowicz, Pete (December 6, 2013). “House bill would require states to report on prisoner deaths”. The Hill. Retrieved December 9, 2013.
  29. ^ “Members”. Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
  30. ^ “Membership”. Congressional Black Caucus. Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  31. ^ “Membership”. Congressional Arts Caucus. Archived from the original on June 12, 2018. Retrieved March 21, 2018.
  32. ^ “90 Current Climate Solutions Caucus Members”. Citizen´s Climate Lobby. Retrieved October 20, 2018.
  33. ^ Vozzella, Laura (August 9, 2016). “Douglas Wilder wants Rep. Bobby Scott for Kaine’s Senate seat”. The Washington Post. Retrieved August 18, 2016.
  34. ^ Flegenheimer, Matt; Barbaro, Michael (November 9, 2016). “Donald Trump Is Elected President in Stunning Repudiation of the Establishment”. The New York Times. Retrieved November 20, 2016.
  35. ^ a b c “Former staffer accuses Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott of sexual harassment, Scott ‘absolutely’ denies claim”. Richmond-Times Dispatch. December 15, 2017.
  36. ^ Cummings, William (October 31, 2018). “Jack Burkman: The conspiracy theorist accused of offering money for Mueller allegations”. USA TODAY. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  37. ^ Goldman, Adam (October 30, 2018). “Plot to Smear Mueller Unravels as F.B.I. Is Asked to Investigate”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved February 9, 2019.
  38. ^ U.S. Rep. Bobby Scott knew of Justin Fairfax allegation in late 2017 — but says he had few details (Virginian-Pilot)
  39. ^ a b Rep. Bobby Scott learned of sexual assault allegation against Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax a year ago from the accuser: Aides (ABC News)
  40. ^ a b Dem Rep. Bobby Scott learned of accusation against Virginia Lt. Gov. Fairfax last year (Fox News)
  41. ^ a b Virginia Rep. Bobby Scott knew of Fairfax allegations a year ago (Axios)
  42. ^ a b “Election Statistics, 1920 to Present”. US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives. Archived from the original on November 21, 2020. Retrieved November 23, 2020.

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Bobby Scott VA-03

Current Position: US Representative of District 3 since 1993
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Position:  Ranking Member, Education and Labor Committee
District: Cities of Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton, Portsmouth, and part of the independent city of Chesapeake.

In the 118th Congress, Congressman Scott serves as the Ranking Member of the Committee on Education and the Workforce—his fifth term as the Committee’s Democratic leader. Throughout his tenure, he has advanced legislation that improves equity in education, frees students from the burdens of debt, protects and expands access to affordable health care, ensures workers have a safe workplace where they can earn a living wage free from discrimination, and guarantees seniors have a secure and dignified retirement. Congressman Scott also serves on the Committee on the Budget where he is a leading voice on fiscal policy.  sponsored the Neighborhood Assistance Act, which provides tax credits to businesses for donations made to approved social service and crime prevention programs.

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US House District 3 – VA 2020

During his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly, Congressman Bobby Scott successfully sponsored laws critical to Virginians in education, employment, health care, social services, economic development, crime prevention and consumer protection.

His legislative successes included laws that increased Virginia’s minimum wage, created the Governor’s Employment and Training Council and improved health care benefits for women, infants and children.  He also sponsored the Neighborhood Assistance Act, which provides tax credits to businesses for donations made to approved social service and crime prevention programs.

John Collick is retired Marine 1st SGT who was a Signals Intelligence Analyst; Cryptologic Linguist (Arabic); Counterterrorism Analyst; Developed Asymmetrical Threat Methodology; Developed Random Patrol Matrix (USCG); Developed Intel Support for International Port Security Program (USCG); Developed Syrian Refugee Vetting Process (USCIS); HUMINT Issues Manager for YEMEN (DIA);; Immigration Officer; Section Chief of Illicit Travel Unit (ICE)

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John Collick

Current Position: Target Executive Team Leader and Small Business Owner
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2020 US Representative

Retired Marine 1st SGT:
Signals Intelligence Analyst; Cryptologic Linguist (Arabic); Counterterrorism Analyst; Developed Asymmetrical Threat Methodology; Developed Random Patrol Matrix (USCG); Developed Intel Support for International Port Security Program (USCG); Developed Syrian Refugee Vetting Process (USCIS); HUMINT Issues Manager for YEMEN (DIA);; Immigration Officer; Section Chief of Illicit Travel Unit (ICE)

Source: Campaign page

OnAir Post: John Collick

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