Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott, D-3rd, has been a member of the U.S. House of Representatives since 1993. The district is comprised of all of Charles City and Surry counties and Petersburg and Portsmouth and portions of Henrico and Prince George counties and Hampton, Newport News, Norfolk and Richmond. Scott has seats on the Judiciary and Education and Labor committees.
Scott previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates in 1979-83 and in the state Senate in 1983-93. He was a member of the National Guard and U.S. Army Reserve. He was a lawyer in a private practice from 1973-91.
Scott was born in Washington, D.C. He earned a bachelor's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., in 1969 and a law degree from Boston College in 1973.
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“Public schools are now as segregated by race and class as they were in the 1960s.”
“Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.”
”If you line up all the countries that have done (Covid-19) testing on a per-capita basis, we’re at the bottom of the list.”
"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."
"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.
"Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s."
President Barack Obama’s policies "have resulted in gas prices being reduced from $3.07 per gallon when he was sworn in in 2009 to $2.30 today."
"After World War II, we tried, convicted, and, in some cases, executed Japanese soldiers for war crimes that included charges of waterboarding."