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Robert C. "Bobby" Scott

DemocratRobert C. "Bobby" Scott

U.S. Representative · Virginia

Virginia's 3rd district

DemocratFederal

U.S. Representative from Virginia

4 tracked promises

Virginia · Virginia's 3rd district

Virginia's 3rd district

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Trust rating

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How they won their seat

Robert C “Bobby” Scott won the 2022 U.S. House election in Virginia (District 3) with 67.2% of the vote (139,659 votes).

67.2%
Win share
139,659
Votes for winner
207,850
Total cast
  • Robert C “Bobby” Scott · Democrat67.2%
  • Terry T Namkung · Republican32.6%
  • 1 Other Candidate0.3%

Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.

Inferred legislative agendas

Robert C. Scott has sponsored bills related to education, labor rights, and child care. He has sponsored multiple bills aimed at improving school infrastructure, such as the Rebuild America’s Schools Act, and enhancing child care access through the Child Care for Working Families Act. Additionally, he has introduced legislation to raise the minimum wage and strengthen workers' rights, including the PRO Act. Focus areas (from the record): Education · Labor Rights · Child Care · Minimum Wage · Infrastructure Alignment with declared positions: Consistent. Scott's sponsored bills align with his declared positions on education, child care, and labor rights, as seen in his support for the Rebuild America’s Schools Act and the Child Care for Working Families Act. What this can't tell you: The effectiveness of the sponsored bills is unclear, as none have become law; There is no information on the impact of his committee work; The absence of statements limits understanding of his public communication and advocacy strategies. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).

Inferred, not stated. Robert C. "Bobby" Scott has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.

Activity in office

What Robert C. "Bobby" Scott has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.

Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.

Monthly voting activity

  • Yea
  • Nay
  • Total
016324864VotesSep '25: 14 YeaSep '25: 50 NaySep '25Nov '25: 8 YeaNov '25: 15 NayNov '25Dec '25: 25 YeaDec '25: 32 NayDec '25Jan '26: 25 YeaJan '26: 22 NayJan '26Feb '26: 13 YeaFeb '26: 17 NayFeb '26Mar '26: 12 YeaMar '26: 18 NayMar '26Apr '26: 22 YeaApr '26: 25 NayApr '26May '26: 19 YeaMay '26: 17 NayMay '26Jun '26: 24 YeaJun '26: 18 NayJun '26Jul '26: 14 YeaJul '26: 34 NayJul '26Aug '26: 2 YeaAug '26: 0 NayAug '26Sep '26: 3 YeaSep '26: 7 NaySep '26Sep '25: 64 totalNov '25: 23 totalDec '25: 57 totalJan '26: 47 totalFeb '26: 30 totalMar '26: 30 totalApr '26: 47 totalMay '26: 36 totalJun '26: 42 totalJul '26: 50 totalAug '26: 2 totalSep '26: 10 total
Measures voted on:492 passed162 failed1 procedural/other

Roll-call votes per month — most recent on file. Source: Voteview.

Vote attendance

99.4%
attendance
651 of 655 roll calls4 missed
Monthly participation rate
0255075100100%Sep 25Dec 25Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Sep 26

Share of roll calls participated in — most recent votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bills sponsored over time

260bills sponsored
1 passed a chamber34 pending225 awaiting status
013253850Bills1993: 1 awaiting status119931994: 2 awaiting status219941995: 2 awaiting status219951998: 1 awaiting status119981999: 2 awaiting status219992000: 3 awaiting status320002001: 2 awaiting status220012002: 1 awaiting status120022003: 2 awaiting status220032004: 2 awaiting status220042005: 3 awaiting status320052006: 1 awaiting status120062007: 27 awaiting status2720072008: 8 awaiting status820082009: 23 awaiting status2320092010: 4 awaiting status420102011: 10 awaiting status1020112012: 23 awaiting status2320122013: 11 awaiting status1120132015: 14 awaiting status1420152016: 6 awaiting status620162017: 16 awaiting status1620172018: 5 awaiting status520182019: 18 awaiting status1820192020: 9 awaiting status920202021: 22 awaiting status2220212022: 7 awaiting status720222023: 15 pending1520232024: 3 pending320242025: 1 passed a chamber, 15 pending2025: 1 passed a chamber, 15 pending1620252026: 1 pending12026

Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.

Independence

1%
Votes against own party
8 of 651 recent votes

How often they break with their party’s majority — neither good nor bad, just the record.

Most recent roll-call votes on file. Source: Voteview.

Bill success rate

0%
0 of 35 sponsored bills became law
1 passed a chamber34 pending

Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.

Campaign finance over time

$0
Cash on hand · 2026
$255K
Raised, 20262026
RaisedSpentCash on hand
$0$125K$250K$375K$500K2026: raised $255K2026: spent $250K20262026: cash on hand $0
Where the money came from · 2026
Small-dollar (unitemized): $0 (0%)Large individual (itemized): $0 (0%)PAC / committee: $154K (100%)100%
  • Small-dollar (unitemized)$00%
  • Large individual (itemized)$00%
  • PAC / committee$154K100%

By election cycle. Source: FEC.

Committee memberships

Source: Congress.gov.

Integrity

Not yet rated

No promises have been rated yet, so there is no Integrity Score to show. Lifecycle promises (in progress, not yet rated) are tracked but never scored.

The score, once promises are rated, is a signed −100…+100 breakdown weighted by significance and evidence confidence — never a single opaque grade. How this is measured.

Integrity over time

The integrity timeline appears here once this official's promises are rated. In office since Jan 2019.
Not yet scoredNot yet rated 4— tracked, but not counted toward Integrity

Topic coverage

4 promises across 4 topics

What this record covers — the number of tracked promises per topic. This is coverage, not a verdict; the kept/against shading within each bar mirrors the Integrity breakdown above.

  • Child Care1
  • Education / School Infrastructure1
  • Labor / Right to Organize1
  • Minimum Wage / Workers1
Kept Worked against No opportunity / not yet scored

Evidence & significance

Evidence quality

Strongest source cited per promise.

  • Primary (official record)4100%

Significance mix

How weighty the tracked promises are (1 = minor, 5 = defining).

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20
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40
54

Significance weights each promise in the Integrity Score.

Tracked promises

4 tracked promises

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Establish a federal need-based grant program to fund long-term improvements to public elementary and secondary school facilities and restore school-infrastructure tax-credit bonds — via the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2026 (H.R. 7340), which Scott sponsors.

Education / School InfrastructureSpecific · measurablePromised Feb 2026
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)
Not yet rated

Lower child care costs for working families and increase the quality and supply of child care through the Child Care for Working Families Act (H.R. 4418), which Scott sponsors.

Child CareSpecific · measurablePromised Jul 2025
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
Not yet rated

Raise the federal minimum wage to $17.00 an hour, phased in over five years, and phase out the separate subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth, and workers with disabilities — via the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 (H.R. 2743), which Scott sponsors.

Minimum Wage / WorkersSpecific · measurablePromised Apr 2025
SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedCongress.gov (bill text)· archivedGovTrack.us
Not yet rated

Enact the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 20) to overhaul federal labor law — strengthening workers' right to organize and collectively bargain, adding penalties for violations, and closing loopholes that let employers misclassify employees — which Scott introduced as lead House sponsor.

Labor / Right to OrganizeSpecific · measurablePromised Mar 2025
SourcesGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedOffice of Congressman Bobby Scott· archived

Voting record

Total votes
655
Yea
273
Nay
378
Present
0
Not voting
4

Full voting record

655 votes
  • S32Yea
  • S307Yea
120 of 655
Page 1 / 33

Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.

Positions on record

6 positions on record

The record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.

  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyStated position

    On record urging congressional leadership to attach Fourth Amendment protections to FISA Section 702 reauthorization: closing the data broker loophole and requiring a judicial warrant before the government accesses Americans' sensitive information, ending the Section 702 backdoor search loophole, and repealing the Section 702 'visa vetting' provision.

    SourcesLetter from 53 Members of Congress to Speaker Mike Johnson, Leader John Thune, Leader Charles E. Schumer and Leader Hakeem Jeffries urging Fourth Amendment protections in FISA Section 702 reauthorization
    View position & sources
  • Education / School InfrastructureStated position

    Establish a federal need-based grant program to fund long-term improvements to public elementary and secondary school facilities and restore school-infrastructure tax-credit bonds — via the Rebuild America's Schools Act of 2026 (H.R. 7340), which Scott sponsors.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)GovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Child CareStated position

    Lower child care costs for working families and increase the quality and supply of child care through the Child Care for Working Families Act (H.R. 4418), which Scott sponsors.

    SourcesCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Minimum Wage / WorkersStated position

    Raise the federal minimum wage to $17.00 an hour, phased in over five years, and phase out the separate subminimum wages for tipped workers, youth, and workers with disabilities — via the Raise the Wage Act of 2025 (H.R. 2743), which Scott sponsors.

    SourcesCongress.gov (bill text)· archivedCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archivedGovTrack.us
    View position & sources
  • Labor / Right to OrganizeStated position

    Enact the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act (H.R. 20) to overhaul federal labor law — strengthening workers' right to organize and collectively bargain, adding penalties for violations, and closing loopholes that let employers misclassify employees — which Scott introduced as lead House sponsor.

    SourcesOffice of Congressman Bobby Scott· archivedGovTrack.usCongress.gov (Library of Congress)· archived
    View position & sources
  • Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote

    On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.

    SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.
    View position & sources
Disclosure
No undisclosed priorities on record

Disclosure

A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.

No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.

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