Tim Scott

Republican · SC · U.S. Senate

Bio

Timothy Eugene Scott is an American businessman and politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2013. 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.

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Record of service

In office: 15.7 years
Chambers: House 2y, Senate 13.7y
First took office: 2011 (5 terms)
Seniority: 48 of 100 by time served
Age: 61
Senate class: 3 · senior senator

Leadership

Senate Republican Committee Chair · 2025–present

District offices

Columbia, SC · 803-771-6112
North Charleston, SC · 843-727-4525
Greenville, SC · 864-233-5366

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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

2018

−$1.1M

2019

−$986k

2020

−$1.4M

2021

−$744k

2022

$67k

2023

$184k

2024

$4.4M

2025

$1.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.46

Healthcare

R+0.59

Immigration & Border

R+0.93

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.71

Environment & Energy

R+0.80

Crime & Policing

R+0.76

Defense & Veterans

R+0.75

Economy & Labor

R+0.71

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.71

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.42

Education

R+0.86

Government & Democracy

R+0.71

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.85

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.

93%Closest

64%

31%

22%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

18%

Communist Party USA

17%

On the political map

Tim 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

Committees

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.