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Rep. Robert (Bobby) Scott [D-VA3]
U.S. Representative, Virginia’s 3rd District

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State:Virginia [map]
District:3rd Congressional District [map]
Party:Democrat
Birthday:Apr 30, 1947 / 62 years old

To contact Robert 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.

Official YouTube Feed
“House Budget Committee Hearing with OMB Director Orszag” - Feb 2, 2010 11:27 PM. Watch Video.
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Congressional Service

Robert Scott has represented Virginia’s 3rd congressional district since 1993.

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

WhenRoleRepresenting
1993-2010
U.S. RepresentativeVirginia’s 3rd
(was preceeded by Tom Bliley)

Sponsorship Analysis

"Ideometer"Scott is a rank-and-file 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 leader according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Other Members of Congress tend to cosponsor Scott’s 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 RecordRobert Scott missed 203 (2%) of 11209 votes since Jan 5, 1993. 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 $16,200 from employees of Northrop Grumman. Robert Scott’s net worth was between $-73,903 and $1,558,995 in 2007, according to Scott’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Scott.

Committee Membership

Robert Scott sits on the following committees:

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Robert Scott has sponsored 77 bills since Jan 5, 1993 of which 63 haven't made it out of committee and 3 were successfully enacted. Scott has co-sponsored 1628 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. 3764: Civil Access to Justice Act of 2009
H.R. 2289: Juvenile Justice Accountability and Improvement Act of 2009
H.R. 1292: To amend title I of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish a National White Collar Crime Center grants program for purposes of improving the identification, investigation, and prosecution of certain criminal conspiracies and activities and terrorist conspiracies and activities.
H.R. 1779: Financial Crimes Resources Act of 2009
H.R. 1569: Every Student Counts Act

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

Photo from the Congressional Pictorial Directory.