Rick Scott
Republican · FL · U.S. Senate
Bio
Richard Lynn Scott is an American attorney, businessman, politician, and Navy veteran serving as the senior United States senator from Florida, a seat he has held since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2011 to 2019 as the 45th governor of Florida.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 80 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 73
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Pensacola, FL · 850-760-5151
- Jacksonville, FL · 904-479-7227
- Orlando, FL · 407-872-7161
- Tampa, FL · 813-225-7040
- Kissimmee, FL · 407-586-7879
- West Palm Beach, FL · 561-514-0189
- Naples, FL · 239-231-7890
- Miami, FL · 786-501-7141
- Tallahassee, FL · 850-942-8415
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
- $198.6M – $726.1M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $198.6M – $726.1M
- Since 2018
- +$294.5M
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
Rick 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
Rick 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.
Committees
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Budgetcenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Foreign Relationscenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 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
- Rick Scott: Trump will have to resume full war with Iran
Sen. Rick Scott (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said President Trump will have to resume a full war with Iran days after the initial failed ceasefire deal expired. Asked if the president should follow through on his threat last month to “bomb and destroy” at least “ONE B…
Freerepublic.com · August 19, 2026 
‘Statistical Illiteracy’ Rick Scott Demands AG James to Explain How NY’s Fraud Got AwayChairman of the Special Senate Committee on Aging Sen. Rick Scott sent a letter to New York Attorney General Letitia James demanding answers on alleged rampant Medicare fraud in her state. The Florida Republican’s letter noted that the number of indictments a…
Daily Signal · August 13, 2026
Senate Republicans rebuke Trump's attempt to undermine GOP leaderPresident Donald Trump's attempt to undermine Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) by refusing to endorse him for another leadership term backfired.The Hill reported GOP senators publicly united behind Thune, despite Trump's lack of support. Sen. Jerry Mo…
Raw Story · August 11, 2026
Trump's Thune feud backfires as Republicans flock to Senate leader's sidePresident Donald Trump's attempt to undercut the authority of Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) appears to have had the opposite effect.In a recent interview with Punchbowl News, the president took great pains not to endorse Thune for another term in h…
Raw Story · August 11, 2026
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