Closed record ·Former U.S. Representative ·Georgia ·District 13
David Scott
- Party
- Democrat
- Left office
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234 votes total · 6 broke with party
- HR 2493Apr 21, 2026HealthPassed ChamberYea
Improving Care in Rural America Reauthorization Act of 2025
House vote · 406-4
Democrats207-0Republicans198-4Independents1-0What this does
This bill extends the authorization of appropriations for three rural health care grant programs under Section 330A of the Public Health Service Act, moving the funding window from 2021 through 2025 to 2026 through 2030. The programs are rural health care services outreach grants, rural health network development grants, and small health care provider quality improvement grants. The bill also adds a spending requirement to two of them. For outreach grants, it directs the grant-awarding Director to ensure funds serve the health care needs of rural underserved populations and involve those populations in running the project. For network development grants, it directs that funds increase those populations' access to care through integrated health networks and involve them in planning and operations. The House passed the bill on April 21, 2026.
Single-subject. Every section amends Section 330A of the Public Health Service Act, which governs rural health care grants. Sections 2(a) and 2(b) add use-of-funds language to the outreach and network development grant subsections; Section 2(c) extends the shared authorization-of-appropriations subsection that funds all three programs. A yes vote carried only rural health grant reauthorization. No unrelated rider is present.
- HR 5201Apr 21, 2026Science, Technology, CommunicationsPassed ChamberYea
Kari's Law Reporting Act
House vote · 405-5
Democrats206-0Republicans198-5Independents1-0What this does
The bill directs the Federal Communications Commission to publish a single report, within 180 days of enactment, on how it enforces Kari's Law. That law, section 721 of the Communications Act of 1934, requires multi-line telephone systems to allow a direct 911 call without dialing a prefix. The report must summarize how far multi-line system manufacturers and vendors have complied, describe difficulties and obstacles to compliance, identify ways to improve the Commission's enforcement if needed, and make recommendations to Congress, if necessary, on further legislation. The report is posted on the Commission's website. The bill imposes no new requirement on manufacturers or vendors and changes no existing rule.
The single operative provision serves one subject: an FCC report on how Kari's Law is being enforced. The definitions only support that report. Nothing in the text reaches beyond it. The title matches the content.
- S 1020Apr 21, 2026EnergyBecame LawYea
Hydropower Construction Deadline Extension
House vote · 394-14
Democrats207-0Republicans186-14Independents1-0Official title: A 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.
What this does
The act lets the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission give hydropower licensees more time to start building. For a covered project, meaning one FERC licensed before March 13, 2020, the Commission may, on the licensee's request and for good cause, extend the deadline to commence construction by up to 6 additional years beyond the 8 years already allowed under section 13 of the Federal Power Act. The extension runs as up to three consecutive two-year periods, beginning when the last extension under section 13 expires. If a covered project's construction deadline expired after December 31, 2023, and before enactment, FERC may reinstate the license effective as of the expiration date, with the new extension taking effect from that date.
Single subject. The whole act is one FERC deadline-extension authority for pre-2020 hydropower licenses, including the reinstatement of recently expired ones. No short title appears in the text, so it carries only its long descriptive title.
- HR 1681Apr 20, 2026Science, Technology, CommunicationsPassed ChamberYea
Expediting Federal Broadband Deployment Reviews Act
House vote · 384-9
Democrats199-0Republicans184-9Independents1-0What this does
The bill orders the Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Communications and Information to stand up an interagency strike force within 180 days of enactment. The strike force exists to push the Bureau of Land Management and the Forest Service, down to their field and district offices, to prioritize reviewing requests to place or modify communications equipment on public land and National Forest System land. Its members are the Assistant Secretary, the heads of those two agencies, and designees of the Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior. Its duties are to hold periodic calls, set objective goals for how fast those requests get reviewed, and track whether the agencies meet those goals. The Assistant Secretary must report to named congressional committees within 270 days on how well the strike force is working. The bill creates no new approval standard and no deadline for any individual permit. It defines the equipment, land, and authorizations it covers by cross-reference to existing statutes.
Every operative provision serves one subject: speeding federal review of communications-facility permits on BLM and Forest Service land. The bill establishes the strike force, names its members, lists its duties, sets the reporting requirement, and defines its terms. Nothing in the text reaches beyond that goal. The title matches the content.
- HR 5200Apr 20, 2026Science, Technology, CommunicationsPassed ChamberYea
Emergency Reporting Act
House vote · 386-7
Democrats198-0Republicans187-7Independents1-0What this does
The bill puts two reporting duties on the Federal Communications Commission around communications outages during disasters. First, whenever the Disaster Information Reporting System has been activated for at least seven days, the Commission must hold at least one public hearing each year on those events, and it must consider including state, local, and tribal officials, affected residents, carriers, first responders, and others. Within 120 days of each hearing, the Commission must issue a report, to the extent known without collecting new information, on the number and duration of outages of broadband, VoIP, mobile, and mobile data service, the users and infrastructure affected, outages that cut off 911 centers from caller location or from routing emergency calls, and any recommendations to improve network resiliency. Those reports go on the Commission's website, with confidential information excluded. Second, within one year of enactment, the Commission must investigate and publish a report on the value to public-safety agencies of including visual information in outage notifications to 911 centers, the volume of 911 outages that may go unreported under current thresholds, the burden on service providers, and recommended rule changes. The bill states that nothing in it gives the Commission authority over broadband providers beyond what the section specifically authorizes.
Every operative provision serves one subject: FCC reporting on communications outages tied to disasters and 911. One part sets post-activation hearings and reports; the other orders a study of network outage reporting improvements. Both concern the same outage-reporting purpose, and the definitions and rule-of-construction only condition that work. The title matches the content.
- HCONRES 40Apr 16, 2026International AffairsFailedYea
Removing US Forces from Hostilities with Iran
House vote · 213-214
Democrats212-1Republicans1-212Independents0-1Official title: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution, to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities with Iran.
What this does
This concurrent resolution would have directed the President to remove United States Armed Forces from hostilities against the Islamic Republic of Iran. It acts under section 5(c) of the War Powers Resolution. The direction does not reach the elements of the Armed Forces needed to defend the United States or an ally or partner from imminent attack, so long as the President complies fully with section 5(b) of the War Powers Resolution for any such use, and it does not apply where the hostilities are explicitly authorized by a declaration of war or a specific authorization for use of military force against Iran. The House rejected it 213 to 214, so it did not take effect and no removal was directed.
One subject. A single resolving clause carrying one directive, with its own limits written into the same sentence and nothing else attached.
- HR 1689Apr 16, 2026International AffairsPassed ChamberYea
Haiti Temporary Protected Status Designation
House vote · 224-204
Democrats213-0Republicans10-204Independents1-0Official title: To require the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for temporary protected status.
What this does
This bill orders the Secretary of Homeland Security to designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status. That designation lets Haitian nationals already in the United States stay and work legally rather than face removal. Congress removes the Secretary's discretion here. The text uses "notwithstanding any other provision of law" and "shall designate," so the designation is mandatory, not a judgment call. Congress also fixes how long it lasts. The designation runs until three months after January 20, 2029. The House passed this version on April 16, 2026.
Single-subject. The bill is one section with one command: designate Haiti for Temporary Protected Status through a fixed date. There are no divisions, no riders, and no unrelated provisions in the text. A yes vote carried only the Haiti TPS designation.
- HR 6409Apr 16, 2026Environmental ProtectionPassed ChamberNay
FENCES Act
House vote · 220-208
Democrats6-207Republicans213-1Independents1-0What this does
Changes how the Clean Air Act treats pollution that drifts in from outside the United States. Section 2(a) amends section 179B so that foreign emissions count in the 'but for' analysis 'regardless of whether such emissions result from human activity.' Section 2(b) adds a new subsection (e) barring designation of an area as nonattainment for a national ambient air quality standard if the area would attain the standard but for emissions from outside the United States. Section 2(c) adds a new section 179C that shields a state from Clean Air Act sanctions and fees under sections 179 and 185 for areas classified Severe or Extreme for ozone or Serious for particulate matter, when the state demonstrates it would have avoided the deficiency or attained the standard but for emissions from outside the nonattainment area, an exceptional event, or uncontrollable mobile-source emissions. The state must renew that demonstration at least once every five years, and the relief does not remove the underlying obligation to keep working to attain the standard.
Single subject. All three changes narrow when foreign or otherwise uncontrollable emissions can trigger nonattainment designations, sanctions, or fees under the Clean Air Act. The FENCES Act title matches that content.
- HR 6398Apr 16, 2026Environmental ProtectionPassed ChamberNay
RED Tape Act
House vote · 222-205
Democrats7-204Republicans214-1Independents1-0What this does
The bill narrows the Environmental Protection Agency's mandatory review duty under Section 309 of the Clean Air Act. Today that section directs EPA to review and comment in writing on proposed federal legislation, newly authorized construction projects and major federal actions subject to environmental review, and proposed regulations from federal departments and agencies. The bill strikes the review of newly authorized construction projects, major federal actions, and proposed regulations, leaving EPA's Section 309 review duty limited to proposed legislation.
Single subject. One section amends Section 309 of the Clean Air Act, and the short title matches the content.
- HR 7613Apr 14, 2026Transportation and Public WorksPassed ChamberYea
ALERT Act
House vote · 396-10
Democrats199-1Republicans196-9Independents1-0What this does
The ALERT Act is Congress's response to the January 29, 2025 midair collision near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport that killed 67 people. It orders the FAA to issue a final rule within two years, effective no later than December 31, 2031, requiring most non-military aircraft to carry collision prevention technology that uses ADS-B In and gives pilots audible traffic alerts. It orders a separate rulemaking to require aircraft already mandated to carry collision avoidance systems to be equipped with the ACAS Xa system. It permanently closes the segment of Helicopter Route 4 between Hains Point and the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge as that route existed on the day of the crash, and keeps that segment off helicopter charts. It bars any person or agency from using ADS-B data to identify an aircraft in order to obtain revenue from its owner without consent, and extends an existing statutory ban on such use from the FAA Administrator to any Federal, State, local, territorial, or Tribal official. It adds a new Aviation Safety chapter to defense law that requires the Departments of Defense and Transportation to enter a memorandum of agreement by September 30, 2026, and requires Defense Department manned rotary wing aircraft flying in the National Capital Region to transmit ADS-B Out, with an exception for special missions. It requires the Secretary of the Army to give the Armed Services Committees a copy of the Army's command investigation of the collision. It repeals the prior rotary wing safety provision at section 2654 of title 10. The bill also directs new air traffic controller training, controller time-on-position limits, annual helicopter route reviews, and a public rulemaking dashboard.
Single-subject. Every provision addresses aviation safety in the national airspace system in response to one event, the January 29, 2025 collision near Reagan National, and the NTSB investigation of it (Aviation Investigation Report AIR-26-02). Title I directs the FAA on civilian aviation. Title II amends title 10 to direct the Defense Department on the same safety subject as it applies to military aircraft. Title II touches defense law but carries no unrelated rider; its provisions are collision avoidance, ADS-B equipage, rotary wing safety management, and congested-airspace training. A single yes is a yes on aviation safety, not on a coupled unrelated matter.
- HR 1011Apr 14, 2026Agriculture and FoodPassed ChamberYea
Emergency Conservation Program Improvement Act of 2025
House vote · 395-10
Democrats201-0Republicans193-10Independents1-0What this does
This bill lets farmers and forest owners get paid up front for disaster recovery work instead of waiting until it is done. It amends the Agricultural Credit Act of 1978. Under the emergency conservation program, a producer may choose to receive an advance of up to 75 percent of a payment for replacing or rehabilitating farmland or a farm or conservation structure, and up to 50 percent for repairs, each based on fair market value as determined by the Secretary. The bill also clarifies that a qualifying wildfire includes one that was not caused naturally, including a fire caused by the Federal Government, if the damage came from the fire's spread due to natural causes. For the emergency forest restoration program, an owner of nonindustrial private forest land may choose to receive an advance of up to 75 percent of the cost of emergency measures before carrying them out. Advance funds that are not spent within 180 days must be returned.
Both operative sections do one thing: loosen how and when the Agricultural Credit Act's emergency conservation and forest restoration programs pay out. The advance-payment options, the wildfire clarification, and the 180-day return rule all serve that single subject.
- HR 7084Mar 27, 2026Transportation and Public WorksPassed ChamberNay
Defending American Property Abroad Act of 2026
House vote · 247-164
Democrats41-164Republicans205-0Independents1-0What this does
This bill lets the President bar foreign vessels from U.S. ports based on where they have already been. It amends Section 70022 of title 46 to create a new class of restricted vessel: one that transited a port, harbor, or marine terminal that at the time was inside a Western Hemisphere country with a U.S. free trade agreement, was reachable only through land owned or controlled by a U.S. person, and had been designated by the President. The President may designate such a facility if the trade partner's government nationalized or expropriated it, or the land providing its exclusive access, while it was owned or controlled by a U.S. person, or took any action with that effect. A facility already the subject of a pending free-trade-agreement arbitration may not be designated on that basis. The President must remove a designation once the country restores the U.S. person's ownership, pays adequate and effective compensation, or the dispute is otherwise resolved. The bill also adds exceptions letting a covered vessel enter during an emergency or when the facility's owner has authorized its transit. The House passed the bill on March 27, 2026.
Single-subject. Every operative clause amends one statute, Section 70022 of title 46, to build a single mechanism: presidential designation of expropriated Western Hemisphere port facilities and the resulting vessel entry restriction. There is no rider and no unrelated section.
- HR 8029Mar 26, 2026AppropriationsBundledPassed ChamberNay
Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act
House vote · 218-206
Democrats4-206Republicans213-0Independents1-0What this does
The act funds the Department of Homeland Security for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2026. Division A provides the component budgets, including $17,727,974,000 for Customs and Border Protection operations and support, $10,036,362,000 for Immigration and Customs Enforcement operations and support, $10,635,434,000 for the Transportation Security Administration, $11,272,401,000 for the Coast Guard, $3,128,304,000 for the Secret Service, $2,218,634,000 for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, and $26,367,000,000 for the FEMA Disaster Relief Fund. It also sets policy: $20,000,000 for body-worn cameras on immigration enforcement officers, a bar on any new border-crossing fee at land ports of entry, a rule that members of Congress and senior officials are not exempt from passenger and baggage screening, limits on restraining pregnant women in DHS custody, and protection for congressional access to detention facilities for oversight. Two provisions reach outside DHS: $30,000,000 more for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for a 3.8 percent 2026 pay increase for FAA air traffic controllers that takes effect only if the FAA Administrator finds the operational efficiencies Section 549 requires. Division B ratifies obligations incurred during the appropriations lapse that began on or about February 13, 2026.
The short title, Pay Our Homeland Defenders Act, understates the reach. Division A is the full DHS budget with dozens of policy riders, and Division B is a Further Additional Continuing Appropriations Act that closes out an appropriations lapse. A single yes also funded items with no homeland-security connection: $30,000,000 for the Supreme Court and $140,000,000 for FAA air traffic controller raises. Those non-DHS appropriations and the continuing-appropriations division are the coupling points. The text is functionally the same DHS measure as H.R. 7744.
- HR 5103Mar 25, 2026District of ColumbiaPassed ChamberNay
Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2025
House vote · 218-206
Democrats5-206Republicans212-0Independents1-0What this does
The bill directs the Secretary of the Interior, within 30 days of enactment, to build a program to clean and maintain federal and District of Columbia facilities, monuments, public spaces, sidewalks, parks, and transit areas, including graffiti removal, and to restore monuments and memorials that were damaged, defaced, or removed. It separately creates a District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Commission in the executive branch, chaired by a senior official the President designates from the Executive Office of the President and staffed by representatives from Interior, Transportation, Homeland Security, the FBI, the U.S. Marshals Service, ATF, the U.S. Attorney offices for the District, Maryland, and the Eastern District of Virginia, and the District's Mayor. The Commission is charged with recommending policies that direct the maximum enforcement of Federal immigration law within the District, including redirecting law enforcement resources to apprehend and deport people in the country illegally, monitoring the District's sanctuary-city status, speeding concealed-carry license processing, revising pretrial-detention practices, ending fare evasion on the transit system, and deploying a heavier federal and local law enforcement presence across the National Mall, monuments, and parks. Both the program and the Commission terminate January 2, 2029.
One bill, one subject: the District of Columbia. There are no divisions and a single short title. The two halves point in different directions. The 'Beautiful' half is a cleanup-and-restoration program run by Interior. The 'Safe' half is a federal law-enforcement commission whose charge reaches immigration enforcement, sanctuary-city status, concealed-carry licensing, and pretrial detention. A vote for the title carried the immigration-and-policing commission with it.
- HR 6422Mar 24, 2026Environmental ProtectionPassed ChamberYea
American Water Stewardship Act
House vote · 378-32
Democrats201-1Republicans176-31Independents1-0What this does
This bill reauthorizes and extends several EPA geographic water programs under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act through fiscal year 2031, including the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, the Long Island Sound program, the Columbia River Basin restoration program, and the National Estuary Program. It reworks the San Francisco Bay program, replacing its grant-only structure with interagency agreements, contracts, and other funding mechanisms, and caps the federal share of a project at 75 percent. It adds Mississippi Sound, Mississippi to the National Estuary Program, but bars EPA from spending fiscal year 2026 estuary funds on it and conditions fiscal year 2027 funds on an appropriations increase of at least $850,000 over fiscal year 2024. It expands the coastal recreation water quality monitoring grant program, reauthorizes it through 2031, and broadens the definition of coastal recreation waters to include river mouths, nearby shallow waters, and waters on beaches. It bars any of these program funds for fiscal years 2026 through 2031 from going to entities domiciled in, or projects conducted with, a foreign country of concern. It directs the Comptroller General to report within two years on the management, progress, and ethics practices of EPA geographic programs.
Every operative section serves one subject: EPA geographic water programs under the Clean Water Act. The reauthorizations, the San Francisco Bay rework, the Mississippi Sound addition, the coastal monitoring expansion, the foreign-country-of-concern funding bar, and the GAO review all govern or oversee these programs. No unrelated rider is attached.
- HR 4638Mar 19, 2026ImmigrationPassed ChamberNay
Federal Working Animal Protection Act
House vote · 228-190
Democrats15-190Republicans212-0Independents1-0What this does
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so that a non-citizen convicted of harming animals used in law enforcement is barred from entering the country and can be deported. The trigger is an offense under section 1368 of title 18 of the U.S. Code, which covers harming animals used in law enforcement. The bill adds this ground to both the inadmissibility provisions in section 212(a)(2) and the deportability provisions in section 237(a)(2). It applies to a non-citizen who has been convicted of, admits committing, or admits acts constituting the essential elements of that offense.
One subject. It makes a conviction for harming a law-enforcement animal a ground for both inadmissibility and deportation. The operative text is titled the Federal Working Animal Protection Act, and every section serves that one subject. The title matches the content.
- HR 556Mar 18, 2026Public Lands and Natural ResourcesPassed ChamberNay
Protecting Access for Hunters and Anglers Act
House vote · 215-202
Democrats7-201Republicans208-1What this does
This bill blocks the Interior and Agriculture Departments from banning lead ammunition or fishing tackle on federal land and water open to hunting or fishing. It bars the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Fish and Wildlife Service or the Bureau of Land Management, and the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service, from prohibiting the use of lead ammunition or tackle, or from issuing regulations on the level of lead in ammunition or tackle, on such land or water. Existing waterfowl-hunting lead-shot rules at two specified sections of federal regulation are preserved. A ban or regulation is allowed only for a specific unit of land or water, and only if the Secretary determines from field data at that unit that lead is the primary cause of a wildlife population decline there, and the restriction is consistent with or approved by the relevant state fish and wildlife department. When a Secretary imposes such a unit-specific restriction, the accompanying Federal Register notice must explain how it meets those requirements.
Every provision serves the single subject the title names. The prohibition, the carve-out for existing waterfowl rules, the narrow unit-specific exception, and the Federal Register notice requirement all govern lead ammunition and tackle on federal hunting and fishing land. No unrelated matter is attached.
- HR 1958Mar 18, 2026ImmigrationPassed ChamberNay
Deporting Fraudsters Act of 2026
House vote · 231-186
Democrats20-186Republicans211-0What this does
This bill amends the Immigration and Nationality Act so that a non-citizen convicted of certain fraud offenses is barred from entering the country and can be deported. It adds the trigger to both the inadmissibility grounds in section 212(a)(2) and the deportability grounds in section 237(a)(2). The covered offenses include SNAP benefit fraud, Social Security number and card fraud, theft or bribery involving programs that receive federal funds, identification-document fraud, major fraud against the United States, mail and related fraud, and conspiracy to defraud the United States. It also reaches any other offense that involves defrauding the government or the unlawful receipt of a federal, state, or local public benefit, plus conspiracy to commit any of the listed offenses. The bar applies to a non-citizen who has been convicted of, admits committing, or admits acts constituting the essential elements of these offenses. A non-citizen who falls under the new provisions is made ineligible for any relief under the immigration laws.
Every operative section serves one subject. It makes fraud against the government or the unlawful receipt of public benefits a ground for both inadmissibility and deportation, then closes off immigration relief for anyone caught by those grounds. The title matches the content.
- HJRES 139Mar 18, 2026Economics and Public FinanceFailedNay
Balanced Budget Constitutional Amendment
House vote · 211-207
Democrats1-207Republicans210-0Official title: Proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States requiring a balanced budget for the Federal Government.
What this does
This joint resolution would propose a constitutional amendment capping total federal expenditures for a year at the average annual receipts collected in the three prior years, adjusted for changes in the citizen population and for inflation, with debt payments excluded from expenditures and borrowing excluded from receipts. Congress could exceed the cap only by a two-thirds roll-call vote of each House, or by a roll-call vote in any year a declaration of war is in effect. Any new tax or increase in a tax rate would require approval by two-thirds of the whole number of each House. The amendment would take effect in the fifth year after ratification and would become part of the Constitution only when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states. It did not pass the House (vote 211-207).
A single-subject joint resolution proposing one constitutional amendment on federal budgeting. No unrelated provisions are attached.
- HR 4294Mar 17, 2026Public Lands and Natural ResourcesPassed ChamberYea
MAWS Act of 2026
House vote · 320-66
Democrats192-1Republicans128-65What this does
This bill directs the Secretary of Commerce, acting through NOAA, to run a pilot program that pays to remove blue catfish, an invasive species, from the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Under the program the Secretary enters into cooperative agreements with companies that make pet food, animal feed, or aquaculture feed, and those companies use the awarded money to buy blue catfish from local watermen and seafood processors. The Secretary sets a minimum price per pound the fish must be bought for, and companies may spend up to 15 percent of their award to cover transporting the fish to processing facilities. The Secretary must also build an estimate of how many blue catfish are in the watershed, publish it annually through fiscal year 2032, and report the program's results to Congress after it ends. The pilot runs for two years once the first abundance estimate is published and program guidance is issued.
The bill addresses a single subject. Every operative provision amends one statute, Section 307 of the NOAA Authorization Act of 1992, to create and govern the blue catfish pilot program.