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U.S. Representative · Georgia 8th District
Austin Scott
RepublicanDistrict R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score23#372 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 · 2 signals
- WeakBroke with Republicans on 5 of 358 recorded votes on tracked billsVoted against the majority of House Republicans on 5 of the 358 recorded yea/nay votes they cast on tracked bills (1%). The median House Republican broke on 1%; this member ranks 113 of 219 by break rate.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 7757 KIDS Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1917 Great Lakes Mass Marking Program Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: S. 1582 GENIUS Act
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 1770 Consumer Safety Technology Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 3422 Promoting Opportunities for Non-Traditional Capital Formation Act
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 1901–1950 of 1964 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S. 1020A bill to require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to extend the time period during which licensees are required to commence construction of certain hydropower projects.Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | YeaProjected at the vote: 16 Entrenched (today: 14) | 14 |