Rick Scott
- Previous profession
- Attorney, Johnson & Swanson, Dallas, TX; Founder, Columbia Hospital Corporation
- Military service
- U.S. Navy, 1971 to 1974
- First public office
- 2011Governor, Florida, 2011 to 2019
- Years in public office
- 15
Confirmed from the official recordSource: Congressional Directory for the 119th Congress (2025-2026), February 20, 2026. We saved our copy on October 8, 2026.
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Since the current Congress began on January 3, 2025, Scott has a recorded vote on 38 laws that passed.
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The record in plain language
Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 38 came to a recorded vote in the Senate while Scott is a member. The rest passed the Senate by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.
Scott votes Yes on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the HALT Fentanyl Act; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); the Rescissions Act of 2025, which cancelled about $9 billion in approved spending; the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.
On funding the government, Scott votes Yes on the March 2025 full-year funding law, the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown and the September 2026 funding extension, and No on the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA, and the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies.
Scott votes No on the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act.
Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the Senate in that time. Scott votes to cancel 24 and against cancelling 0. The rules Scott votes to cancel come from: Interior: Bureau of Land Management (7), Environmental Protection Agency (6), Energy (4), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2), District of Columbia government (1), Treasury: Comptroller of the Currency (1), Interior: National Park Service (1), Treasury: Internal Revenue Service (1) and Interior: Ocean Energy Management (1).
On all 35 Yes votes Scott votes the same way as most Senate Republicans. On all 3 No votes Scott votes differently from most of them.
Votes on laws that passed
A package of housing measures intended to increase the supply of homes.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for a further group of federal agencies.
Full-year fiscal 2026 funding for the Commerce and Justice Departments, science agencies, energy and water programs, the Interior Department and the EPA.
What this member says about laws and orders
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2 excerpts
- Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty ActApril 28, 2026
“WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Senator Rick Scott’s bipartisan Doug LaMalfa Federal Disaster Tax Relief Certainty Act (H.R. 5366) unanimously passed the House of Representatives by voice vote.”
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Sen. Rick Scott Encourages Pres. Trump to Increase Pressure on Illegitimate Castro/Díaz-Canel Regime
“I write to urge you to expand the pressure campaign authorized under your January 29, 2026 Executive Order, Addressing Threats to the United States by the Government of Cuba, beyond oil to target every major revenue stream sustaining the illegitimate Castro-Díaz-Canel regime, beginning with Cuba’s coercive medical missions program and GAESA (Grupo de Administración Empresarial S.A.), the military conglomerate that”
Member-requested spending
Member-requested spending: none found in the 4 laws read so far.
Laws read: Public Law 119-37, Public Law 119-74, Public Law 119-75, Public Law 119-86.
Campaign promises
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