Sen. Rick Scott

Analysis

Legislative Metrics

Read our 2019 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 Senate positioned according to our liberal–conservative 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 6, 2015 to Aug 3, 2020. See full analysis methodology.

Ratings from Advocacy Organizations

Committee Membership

Rick Scott sits on the following committees:

• Senate Committee on Armed Services
  Airland, Cybersecurity, Personnel subcommittees
• Senate Committee on the Budget
• Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation
  Communications, Technology, Innovation, and the Internet, Science, Oceans, Fisheries, and Weather, Security, Transportation and Safety subcommittees
• Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
  Federal Spending Oversight and Emergency Management, Regulatory Affairs and Federal Management subcommittees
• Senate Special Committee on Aging

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Scott sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Health (23%) Crime and Law Enforcement (13%) International Affairs (13%) Government Operations and Politics (13%) Taxation (10%) Armed Forces and National Security (10%) Education (10%) Commerce (7%)

Recent Bills

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

• S. 4222: GAO Database Modernization Act
• S. 4198: Affordable Coronavirus Testing Act
• S. 4196: Unnecessary Agency Regulations Reduction Act
• S.Res. 641: A resolution designating April 13, 2020, as “National Borinqueneers Day”.
• S. 3977: Cut Profits to the Cuban Regime Act of 2020
• S.Res. 625: A resolution encouraging the Government and the people of the United States to ...
• S.Res. 614: A resolution honoring the memory of the victims of the heinous attack at ...

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2019 to Aug 2020, Scott missed 14 of 583 roll call votes, which is 2.4%. This is on par with the median of 1.7% among the lifetime records of senators 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 and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Office of Rick Scott for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills