Honorable Bobby Scott
United States Representative, Virginia, Democrat
Representative Scott, of the Third District of Virginia, was first elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1992. He served in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1977 to 1982 and in the Virginia Senate from 1983 to 1992. He is the Ranking Minority Member of the Education and the Workforce Committee. The following is from the January 11, 2017, House floor debate on H.R. 5, the Regulatory Accountability Act of 2017. Over the past two weeks, the majority has considered three bills on the House floor designed to undermine the ability of the Executive Branch to implement essential…