Robert C. "Bobby" Scott

U.S. Representative, VA-3

VA House · Democratic

Robert Cortez Scott (born April 30, 1947) is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 3rd congressional district since 1993. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the dean of Virginia's congressional delegation, a position he has held since 2019. He previously shared the deanship with Bob Goodlatte until the latter's retirement that year. He is also the first Filipino American voting member of Congress. His district serves most of the majority-Black precincts of Hampton Roads, including all of the independent cities of Norfolk, Newport News (where he resides), Hampton and Portsmouth, and parts of the independent city of Chesapeake. From 2019 to 2023, Scott was chair of the House Education and Labor Committee. He has been ranking member on that committee since 2023.

From the English Wikipedia article “Bobby Scott (politician)”, available under CC BY-SA.

Voting Summary

Votes recorded: 31
Ballots cast: 31
Participation: 100%
Yea / Nay: 18 / 13

Yea18

Nay13

Absent0

Abstain0

31 total ballots recorded.

Participation counts yea and nay ballots votes where a position was taken as a share of all roll calls on file.

Voting Record

31 votes

Bill	Chamber	Roll call	Vote
Ratepayer Protection Act	house	—	Yea
Retire through Ownership Act	senate	—	Yea
Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.	house	—	Yea
Stop Insider Trading Act	house	—	Nay
Stop Insider Trading Act	house	—	Yea
American Battlefield Protection Program Amendments Act of 2026	house	—

Bill title and chamber are the only bill details held locally for these votes. Bill number, status, summary and sponsor are not part of this dataset see Bills for the fuller bill record. “Roll call” is the upstream roll-call identifier, not a date; no vote date is recorded in this dataset.