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U.S. Senator · South Carolina
Tim Scott
RepublicanState R+8119th Congress
Typical swing score28#74 of 100 senators across tracked bills
Contact Tim Scott’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office104 Hart Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510
Signals to watch
What in this member’s state, 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 · 2 signals
- MediumVotes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.627 (party median +0.558; rank 36 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 88); LCV 0 (avg 3).
- WeakBacks only Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 14 of the 890 tracked bills, all introduced by Republicans: S. 5, S. 6, S. 9, S. 645, S. 1547 and 9 more.
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators dataset- Current term
- January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2029
- Senate class
- Class 3
- Seniority
- Senior senator
- Next election
- November 7, 2028
- Years in office
- 15.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban AffairsChairmanMajority · 1st in seniority
- Subcommittee on Securities, Insurance, and InvestmentEx Officio
- Subcommittee on National Security and International Trade and FinanceEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer ProtectionEx Officio
- Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Scott← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.627 is 0.07 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average- 119th Congress94Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)
Swing score by bill
swing-v2, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 22SAVE ActSummary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 28 | Entrenched |
| S. 5521Ukrainian Adjustment Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov |