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Rep. David Scott [D-GA13]
U.S. Representative, Georgia’s 13th District

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State:Georgia [map]
District:13th Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Jun 27, 1946 / 63 years old

To contact David Scott, visit his official website. (Read our tips for communicating with Congress.) See the Project Vote Smart page for Scott for more biographical and issue information.

On the Floor
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Congressional Service

David Scott has represented Georgia’s 13th congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by David Scott:

WhenRoleRepresenting
2003-2010
U.S. RepresentativeGeorgia’s 13th

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Scott is a moderate Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

"Leader-Follower Score"
Scott is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Scott tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Scott’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Scott, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Scott and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Scott.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Scott's bills without Scott returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Voting RecordDavid Scott missed 97 (2%) of 5206 votes since Jan 7, 2003. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Scott in 2007-2008 was $21,950 from employees of IntercontinentalExchange Inc. David Scott’s net worth was between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in 2007, according to Scott’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Scott.

Committee Membership

David Scott sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

David Scott has sponsored 19 bills since Jan 7, 2003 of which 14 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Scott has co-sponsored 809 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Scott and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Scott’s most recently sponsored bills include...

H.R. 3785: Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area Boundary Study Act of 2009
H.R. 2554: National Association of Registered Agents and Brokers Reform Act of 2009

View All... (including bills from previous years)

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.