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Bobby Scott
stated on May 18, 2022 in a committee hearing.:

“Public schools are now as segregated by race and class as they were in the 1960s.”

By Warren Fiske • June 8, 2022

Bobby Scott
stated on July 12, 2021 in a tweet.:

“Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.”

By Warren Fiske • July 22, 2021

Bobby Scott
stated on April 2, 2020 in a radio interview.:

”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.”

By Warren Fiske • April 15, 2020

Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 in a hearing:

"Studies show at the minimum wage, you can’t rent a two-bedroom apartment anywhere in the United States...a modest, two-bedroom apartment."

By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019

Bobby Scott
stated on February 26, 2019 in a speech.:

"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."

By Warren Fiske • March 13, 2019

Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 in a speech.:

"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."

By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019

Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 in a written statement.:

"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.

By Warren Fiske • July 13, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 in a news release.:

"Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s."

By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on January 9, 2015 in a news release.:

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."

By Sean Gorman • January 18, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on December 9, 2014 in a news release.:

"After World War II, we tried, convicted, and, in some cases, executed Japanese soldiers for war crimes that included charges of waterboarding."

By Sean Gorman • January 12, 2015

Bobby Scott
stated on March 25, 2013 in a radio interview.:

Paul Ryan’s budget "keeps the Obamacare taxes and spending cuts that paid for Obamacare, but then cuts all of the benefits."

By Nancy Madsen • April 8, 2013

Bobby Scott
stated on August 1, 2011 in a news release.:

"The estimated savings of this (debt ceiling) deal only pay for half of the cost of extending all of the Bush-era tax cuts for another decade."

By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 29, 2011

Bobby Scott
stated on July 14, 2011 in a letter.:

(Rep. Bob Goodlatte's) balanced budget amendment does not require a balanced budget.

By Sean Gorman • August 1, 2011

Bobby Scott
stated on April 7, 2011 in a news release.:

"Nearly 2,000 high schools - roughly 12 percent of all secondary schools in the United States - produce about half of the nation’s dropouts."

By Sean Gorman • May 6, 2011

Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 in a news release.:

The tax-cut deal "adds more than $800 billion to the deficit over two years -- more than the cost of TARP and more than the cost of the Recovery Act" and about the same as health care reform.

By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010:

Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it."

By Wes Hester • December 7, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010 in in a news release.:

The health care reform law "reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades."

By Wes Hester • November 23, 2010

Bobby Scott
stated on October 12, 2010 in a statement in the Times-Dispatch voters' guide:

"If all of the [Bush-era] tax cuts expire on schedule, the budget will be close to being balanced in four years."

By Wes Hester • November 5, 2010

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