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Rep. David Scott

Representative for Georgia’s 13th District

pronounced DAY-vid // skot

Scott is the representative for Georgia’s 13th congressional district (view map) and is a Democrat. He has served since Jan 7, 2003. Scott is next up for reelection in 2024 and serves until Jan 3, 2025. He is 78 years old.

Photo of Rep. David Scott [D-GA13]

Earmarks

Scott proposed $48 million in earmarks for fiscal year 2024, including:

  • $13 million to City of Smyrna for “South Cobb Drive Improvement Project”
  • $11 million to Douglas County Board of Commissioners for “Lee Road Extension/South Douglas Loop Project”
  • $3.0 million to City of Union City for “Union City Shannon Parkway Streetscape Project”

These are earmark requests which may or may not survive the legislative process to becoming law. Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Across representatives who requested earmarks, the median total amount requested for this fiscal year was $39 million.

Earmarks are federal expenditures, tax benefits, or tariff benefits requested by a legislator for a specific entity. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. All earmark requests in the House of Representatives are published online for the public to review. We don’t have earmark requests for senators. The fiscal year begins on October 1 of the prior calendar year. Source: Appropriations.house.gov. Background: Earmark Disclosure Rules in the House

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2022 Report Card for Scott.

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Scott is shown as a purple triangle in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Scott has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Sep 22, 2023. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

David Scott sits on the following committees:

Enacted Legislation

Scott was the primary sponsor of 6 bills that were enacted:

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Does 6 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Scott sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (34%) Finance and Financial Sector (21%) Agriculture and Food (13%) Housing and Community Development (9%) Science, Technology, Communications (9%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (6%) Armed Forces and National Security (4%) Labor and Employment (4%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Scott recently introduced the following legislation:

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Scott voted Yea

Scott voted Yea

Passed 246/181 on Feb 2, 2016.

The House began a vote on H.R. 3662, the Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act, last week but in an unusual procedural move Republican leadership ended …

Scott voted Yea

Passed 338/88 on May 13, 2015.

The USA Freedom Act (H.R. 2048, Pub.L. 114–23) is a U.S. law enacted on June 2, 2015 that restored in modified form several provisions of …

Scott voted Aye

Scott voted Aye

Scott voted Aye

Passed 304/117 on Jun 23, 2011.

The Leahy–Smith America Invents Act (AIA) is a United States federal statute that was passed by Congress and was signed into law by President Barack …

Missed Votes

From Jan 2003 to Sep 2023, Scott missed 392 of 13,666 roll call votes, which is 2.9%. This is worse than the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Primary Sources

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