Tim Scott

16 years in the U.S. Congress · since 2011

• Senator SC 2013–present
• Representative SC-1 2011–2013

• background Born September 19, 1965 in Charleston; businessman in financial services
• role Charleston County Council (1995–2009), South Carolina General Assembly (2009–2011)
• role U.S. House from South Carolina's 1st district (2011–2013)
• role U.S. senator from South Carolina (since 2013); reelected 2016, 2022
• achievement First African-American senator in Southern US elected; longest-serving African-American senator
• achievement First African-American in both House and Senate; first to chair full Senate committee

Assembled from Congress.gov · FEC · official disclosures — each fact links its own source

These are verifiable facts from the public record, assembled in one place and presented without judgment. They are not a score, a grade, or a ranking. Context matters: a missed vote may be excused, on leadership or committee duty, or paired; a party-unity rate reflects agenda alignment, not virtue or independence; a disclosed trade or a documented relationship is a required public filing, not evidence of wrongdoing. Each fact links to its full source below.

• 96.7%
  Roll-call participation →

  voted in 30 recorded roll calls · chamber median 100.0%

  Missing a vote is not inherently negative — an absence can be excused, reflect leadership or committee duty, or a recorded pairing.

• 63
  Bills sponsored →

  plus 171 cosponsored

  A count of bills introduced as the primary sponsor; most legislation never advances, regardless of who sponsors it.

• 1
  Sponsored bills enacted →

  of 63 bills sponsored

  Whether a bill becomes law depends on the whole Congress, not the sponsor alone; substantive provisions often pass folded into other vehicles.

• 100%
  Party-unity voting →

  votes with the party majority · median 100% · on 10 party-line votes

  Party-unity is how often a member votes with their own party's majority on party-line votes — it reflects agenda alignment, not loyalty, independence, or virtue.

• 0%
  Cross-party voting →

  votes with the other party's majority on those same votes

  The share of the same party-line votes cast with the OTHER party's majority — a descriptive rate, not a measure of principle.

• 0
  Documented positions →

  no positions documented yet

  Documented, sourced positions we have on record — the absence of a documented position is not the absence of a view.

• 15
  Committee assignments →

  committees and subcommittees

  Committee seats are assignments made by party leadership — a measure of role and jurisdiction, not an achievement or a conflict in itself.

Assembled from CivicGate's ingested public records for Tim Scott. A fact shown as “—” means we don't yet hold that data — not that the value is zero.

Data from senate.gov roll-call records

Data from Congress.gov committee memberships

• Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee Chairman · oversees Finance
• Finance Committee
• Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee · oversees Health
• Housing, Transportation, and Community Development Subcommittee Ex Officio
• International Trade, Customs, and Global Competitiveness Subcommittee
• Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee
• Digital Assets Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Economic Policy Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Education and the American Family Subcommittee
• Employment and Workplace Safety Subcommittee
• Energy, Natural Resources, and Infrastructure Subcommittee · oversees Energy
• Financial Institutions and Consumer Protection Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Health Care Subcommittee · oversees Health
• National Security and International Trade and Finance Subcommittee Ex Officio
• Securities, Insurance, and Investment Subcommittee Ex Officio

Documented + CivicGate vote-derived — stated positions link their source; derived positions come from votes on direction-tagged bills

• DefenseFull support from votes
• Economy & TaxesFull support from votes
• Foreign PolicyFull support from votes

Data from Stock Watcher / official disclosures

Data from Congress.gov

The members Scott most often co-sponsors bills with — their legislative coalition.

Data from Congress.gov · FEC

How Scott connects to other members, committees, and PACs — drawn only from ingested records.

Data from Congress.gov