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U.S. Representative · Georgia 8th District
Austin Scott
RepublicanDistrict R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score23#377 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Austin Scott’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2185 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-1008
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 0 signals
No signals in this direction
None of our measures place this member closer to the Democrats than their party.
Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.538 (party median +0.530; rank 112 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 86); LCV 0 (avg 1).
- MediumSafe Republican district: GA-8 is R+15GA-8 has a partisan lean of R+15 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 24 of the 865 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: H.J.Res. 20, H.R. 21, H.R. 27, H.R. 28, H.R. 29 and 19 more.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 15.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on AgricultureVice ChairMajority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
- Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities, Risk Management, and CreditChair
- Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development
- House Committee on Armed ServicesMajority · 5th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Readiness
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Scott← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.538 is 0.01 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress94House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 101–150 of 858 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 528Post-Disaster Reforestation and Restoration ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | 30
| Middle |
| H.R. 1045Utah Wildfire Research Institute Act of 2025 |