Tim Scott
Republican · SC · U.S. Senate
Bio
Timothy Eugene Scott is an American businessman and politician serving since 2013 as the junior United States senator from South Carolina. A member of the Republican Party, he is the first African-American senator in the Southern United States to be directly elected, the longest-serving African-American senator in U.S. history, the first African-American to serve in both the House and Senate, and the first African-American senator to chair a full committee.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.6 years
- Chambers
- House 2y, Senate 13.6y
- First took office
- 2011 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 48 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 60
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Senate Republican Committee Chair · 2025–present
- Columbia, SC · 803-771-6112
- North Charleston, SC · 843-727-4525
- Greenville, SC · 864-233-5366
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
- Assets
- $1.6M – $4.5M
- Liabilities
- $950k – $1.9M
- Net worth
- −$316k – $3.5M
- Since 2018
- +$2.7M
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)
Issue profile
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
Tim Scott's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Tim Scott (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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
Committees
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
- Sen. Scott calls Darline Graham 'real deal' after debate-stage gaffe - USA Today
Sen. Scott calls Darline Graham 'real deal' after debate-stage gaffeUSA Today Tim Scott defends Darline Graham’s ‘national security is not my thing’ commentThe Guardian Darline Graham’s Debate Stumble Tests Appetite for a Political NewcomerThe New York Times …
Slashdot.org · Yesterday - Tim Scott defends Darline Graham’s ‘national security is not my thing’ comment - The Guardian
Tim Scott defends Darline Graham’s ‘national security is not my thing’ commentThe Guardian Darline Graham’s Debate Stumble Tests Appetite for a Political NewcomerThe New York Times AP Interview: Ralph Norman questions Trump's endorsement of Darline Graham in …
Slashdot.org · Yesterday 
‘Let Me Finish’: NBC Host Clashes With MAGA Senator Desperate To Blame Biden For Trump’s EconomySen. Tim Scott repeatedly tried to pass the buck off to former President Joe Biden, but Kristen Welker wasn’t having it.
HuffPost · Yesterday
GOP senator shredded for 'Sharia law' attack and Ken Paxton defense: 'Soooooo bad at this'Sen. Tim Scott's (R-SC) attempts Sunday to defend President Donald Trump's economy, his controversial colleagues and potentially Islamophobic attacks were met with immediate scorn.Scott was met with scathing reviews after he discussed on "Meet the Press" Sen.…
Raw Story · Yesterday
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