Tim Scott

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

88.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Tim Scott is South Carolina's junior Republican senator, the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history, and chairman of the Banking Committee serving his second full term.

Timothy Eugene Scott is the junior U.S. Senator from South Carolina, a Republican originally appointed in January 2013 to fill the seat vacated by Jim DeMint, then elected in a 2014 special election and to full terms in 2016 and 2022. A North Charleston native raised by a single mother, Scott attended Presbyterian College and Charleston Southern University and built a career as an Allstate insurance agent and financial adviser. He served on the Charleston County Council and in the South Carolina House, and was elected to the U.S. House in 2010 before his Senate appointment. In the 119th Congress, Scott serves as chairman of the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee, becoming the first African American to chair a standing Senate committee. He also serves on Finance, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, and Small Business committees. He chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee for 2025-2026. Scott is the longest-serving African American in Senate history as of the 119th Congress. His priorities include opportunity zones, school choice, workforce development, policing reform, and financial services access. He ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.