Austin Scott

Republican · GA-8 · U.S. House

Bio

James Austin Scott is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Georgia's 8th congressional district, serving since 2011. Scott served as a Republican member of the Georgia House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. House. He is the most senior Republican currently serving in Georgia's congressional delegation.

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Record of service

In office: 15.6 years
First took office: 2011 (8 terms)
Seniority: 88 of 437 by time served
Age: 56

District offices

Tifton, GA · 229-396-5175
Warner Robins, GA · 478-971-1776

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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

$1.9M

2020

$2.8M

2021

$1.7M

2022

$1.5M

2023

$1.5M

2024

$1.4M

2025

$1.4M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $881k – $2.3M
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: $631k – $2.2M
Since 2019: −$529k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 35 assets reported

J. W. Scott Family Limited Partnership ⇒ J. W. Scott Family Limited Partnership, 49% Inter$250k – $500k

MCA Family, LLC ⇒ Shell Point$250k – $500k

The Southern Group, LLC, 100% Interest$100k – $250k

MCA Family, LLC ⇒ Cash$100k – $250k

MCA Family, LLC ⇒ Valdosta Shopping Center$100k – $250k

MCA Family, LLC ⇒ Edgefield Lot$15k – $50k

Vivien G Scott 401 (K) ⇒ Principle Lifetime Hybrid 20455 CIT$15k – $50k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ GE Vernova Inc. Common Stock (GEV)$15k – $50k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ General Electric Company (GE)$15k – $50k

Ballard Power Systems, Inc. - Common Shares (BLDP)$1k – $15k

Carmen G Scott UTMA$1k – $15k

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. (CLNE)$1k – $15k

James A Scott Checking Account / SunTrust$1k – $15k

James A. Scott Ameris Money Market$1k – $15k

Joint checking / Ameris Bank$1k – $15k

Plug Power, Inc. (PLUG)$1k – $15k

Vivien Scott Checking / Truist$1k – $15k

James A Scott VUL ⇒ American Bond$1k – $15k

James A Scott VUL ⇒ American Growth$1k – $15k

James A Scott VUL ⇒ American Growth and Income Fund$1k – $15k

James A Scott VUL ⇒ American International$1k – $15k

John Phillip Scott UTMA ⇒ John Phillip Scott UTMA$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott 401 (K) ⇒ American Funds EuroPacific Growth RERGX$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott 401 (K) ⇒ Canadian Imp Bank of Commerce$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott 401 (K) ⇒ Vanguard Mid-Cap Index VMCIX$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott 401 (K) ⇒ Vanguard Small-Cap Index VSCIX$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ GE HealthCare Technologies Inc. - Common Stock (GEHC)$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc. LargeCap S&P 500 Index Fd Cl A (PLSAX)$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ Principal Fds, Inc. MidCap Fd Cl A (PEMGX)$1k – $15k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ Principal Funds, Inc. Blue Chip Fund, Class A (PBLAX)$1k – $15k

E Trade money market$1 – $1k

FuelCell Energy, Inc. (FCEL)$1 – $1k

Katapult Holdings, Inc. (KPLT)$1 – $1k

Katapult Holdings, Inc. - Warrant (KPLTW)$1 – $1k

Vivien G Scott IRA ⇒ Fidelity Government Cash Reserves$1 – $1k

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

R+0.80

Healthcare

R+0.72

Immigration & Border

R+0.88

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.88

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.80

Economy & Labor

R+0.86

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.71

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.36

Education

R+0.73

Government & Democracy

R+0.89

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+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

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

91%Closest

63%

27%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

14%

Communist Party USA

12%

On the political map

Austin 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.

Committees

House Committee on AgricultureVice Chaircenter · 53 members
Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and Credit (Chair)Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Readiness Intelligence and Special Operations
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 27 members
Central Intelligence Agency National Security Agency and Cyber National Intelligence Enterprise (Chairman)
House Committee on Rulesright · 13 members
Rules and Organization of the House

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.