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
- 7.7 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 · 20 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
Republican Senator Says ‘Somebody Will Stop’ Trump From Making Illegal PaymentsSen. Rick Scott offered a less-than-reassuring response regarding a Medicare payment scheme proposed by President Donald Trump. The post Republican Senator Says ‘Somebody Will Stop’ Trump From Making Illegal Payments first appeared on Mediaite.
Mediaite · October 5, 2026
Jake Tapper Confronts GOP Senator For Calling All Democrats ‘Socialists and Antisemitic’: ‘You’re Painting With a Broad Brush’CNN's Jake Tapper confronted Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) for painting Democrats "with a rather broad brush" in his comments on Monday's The Lead. The post Jake Tapper Confronts GOP Senator For Calling All Democrats ‘Socialists and Antisemitic’: ‘You’re Painting Wi…
Mediaite · October 5, 2026
'I've done a bad job': Trump acknowledges voter anger as GOP braces for disasterPresident Donald Trump admitted this week he's failed to convince Americans the economy is actually working, as Senate Republicans head home for the midterms carrying real fear that the party hasn't done enough to address voters' financial pain.Despite passin…
Raw Story · October 1, 2026
The GOP's 3-Step Scam: Break the Country, Blame Others, Then Claim Only We Can Fix ItIt’s not working any more, this scam Republicans have been running for 45 years, although Trump and many others are trying their best to revive it. Their strategy has always been simple: break things here in America, create chaos and a mess, hurt working clas…
Common Dreams · September 28, 2026
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