Robert C. "Bobby" Scott

Democrat · VA-3 · U.S. House

Bio

Robert Cortez Scott is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the dean of Virginia's congressional delegation since 2019, he previously shared the deanship with Bob Goodlatte until the latter's retirement that year, and the first Filipino American voting member of Congress. The district serves most of the majority-black precincts of Hampton Roads, including all of the independent cities of Norfolk, Newport News, Hampton and Portsmouth, and parts of the independent city of Chesapeake. From 2019 to 2023, Scott was chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. He has been ranking member on that committee since 2023.

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Record of service

In office: 33.6 years
First took office: 1993 (17 terms)
Seniority: 15 of 437 by time served
Age: 79

District offices

Newport News, VA · 757-380-1000

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$1.1M

2020

$1.4M

2021

$1.4M

2022

$943k

2023

$1.1M

2024

$1.3M

2025

$1.0M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $804k – $2.2M
Liabilities: $265k – $650k
Net worth: $154k – $1.9M
Since 2019: −$118k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 55 assets reported

Fidelity ⇒ Ariel Fund Investor Cl (ARGFX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Fidelity Contra Fund (FCNTX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Fidelity Convertible Securities Fund (FCVSX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Fidelity OTC Pt (FOCPX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Impact Shares NAACP Minority Empowerment ETF (NACP)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Vanguard Consumer Discretion ETF (VCR)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo ⇒ American Funds Global Growth Portfolio Class A (PGGAX)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo ⇒ Roth IRA ⇒ Berkshire Hathaway Inc. New Common Stock (BRK.B)$50k – $100k

Wells Fargo ⇒ Roth IRA ⇒ The Growth Fund of America Class A Shares (AGTHX)$50k – $100k

Fidelity ⇒ Brown Capital Management International Small Company Fund Investor Shares (BCSV$15k – $50k

Fidelity ⇒ Edgar Lomax Value Fd (LOMAX)$15k – $50k

Fidelity ⇒ Mairs & Power Growth Fund (MPGFX)$15k – $50k

Fidelity ⇒ ProShares S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats ETF (NOBL)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ ClearBridge International Growth Fund Class A (LGGAX)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Dodge & Cox Stock Fund - Class I (DODGX)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Domini Impact Equity Fund Investor Shares (DSEFX)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Harbor Capital Appreciation Fund Insti Cl (HACAX)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Invesco S&P 500 Quality ETF (SPHQ)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Motley Fool Global Opportunities ETF (TMFG)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Motley Fool Mid-Cap Growth ETF (TMFM)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$15k – $50k

Merrill ⇒ Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo ⇒ American Fds 2025 Target Date Retirement Fd Cl A (AADTX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo ⇒ International Growth and Income Fd, Cl A Shs (IGAAX)$15k – $50k

Wells Fargo ⇒ Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Div Appreciation ETF (VIG)$15k – $50k

Campbell Soup Company Common Stock (CPB)$1k – $15k

Chartway Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Congressional Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Old Point National Bank$1k – $15k

People's Bank$1k – $15k

RPM International Inc. Common Stock (RPM)$1k – $15k

Towne Bank$1k – $15k

Truist Financial Corporation Common Stock (TFC)$1k – $15k

Virginia Retirement System$5k – $15k

Fidelity ⇒ Ariel Appreciation Fund Investor Cl (CAAPX)$5k – $15k

Fidelity ⇒ Fidelity Preferred Securities & Income ETF (FPFD)$1k – $15k

Fidelity ⇒ State Street SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 High Dividend ETF (SPYD)$5k – $15k

Fidelity ⇒ Vanguard High Dividend Yield ETF (VYM)$5k – $15k

Merrill ⇒ Bank of America, N.A.$1k – $15k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.53

Healthcare

D+0.72

Immigration & Border

D+0.88

Guns

D+0.90

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+0.97

Environment & Energy

D+0.86

Crime & Policing

D+0.57

Defense & Veterans

D+0.19

Economy & Labor

D+0.58

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.23

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.62

Government & Democracy

D+0.81

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

93%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Scottsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members

Committees

House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Education and WorkforceRanking Membercenter · 36 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Scott's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.