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Bobby Scott

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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Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on May 18, 2022 a committee hearing.
“Public schools are now as segregated by race and class as they were in the 1960s.”
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 8, 2022
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 12, 2021 a tweet.
“Every Republican in Congress voted to defund the police when they voted against the American Rescue Plan.”
False
By Warren Fiske • July 22, 2021
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on April 2, 2020 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.”
False
By Warren Fiske • April 15, 2020
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 15, 2019 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."  
True
By Warren Fiske • July 30, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 26, 2019 a speech.
"Women earn on average 80-cents on the dollar compared to white men doing similar jobs."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • March 13, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on February 7, 2019 a speech.
"Today’s minimum wage worker making $7.25 an hour has less buying power than a minimum wage worker in the 1960s."
True
By Warren Fiske • February 13, 2019
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 a written statement.
"The United States ranks second worst in income inequality across developed countries," after taxes and transfers.
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • July 13, 2015
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on June 12, 2015 a news release.
"Income disparities in the United States are the worst since the 1920s."
Mostly True
By Warren Fiske • June 30, 2015
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on January 9, 2015 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."
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By Sean Gorman • January 18, 2015
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 9, 2014 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."
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By Sean Gorman • January 12, 2015
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on March 25, 2013 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."
Mostly True
By Nancy Madsen • April 8, 2013
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on August 1, 2011 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."
True
By Sean Gorman, Warren Fiske • August 29, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on July 14, 2011 a letter.
(Rep. Bob Goodlatte's) balanced budget amendment does not require a balanced budget.
Mostly False
By Sean Gorman • August 1, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on April 7, 2011 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."
True
By Sean Gorman • May 6, 2011
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on December 16, 2010 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.
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 27, 2010
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010
Republicans "created a trillion dollar prescription drug entitlement program without paying for it." 
Mostly True
By Wes Hester • December 7, 2010
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on November 16, 2010 in a news release.
The health care reform law "reduces the deficit by nearly $1.2 trillion over the next two decades." 
Half-True
By Wes Hester • November 23, 2010
Bobby Scott
Bobby Scott
stated on October 12, 2010 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."
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By Wes Hester • November 5, 2010
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