Congressman Bobby Scott
Representing the 3rd District of Virginia
Born:
April 30, 1947
Raised:
Newport News, Virginia
Education:
Harvard College/Boston College Law School
Fun facts:
- Scott is only the second African-American elected to Congress in Virginia's history.
- Member of the Massachusetts National Guard And United States Army Reserve.
- Founder of Peninsula Legal Aid Center.
- Listed as one of the top 25 hardest working Members of Congress (http://thehill.com/capital-living/102101-the-25-hardest-working-members-of-congress.)
Committee/subcommittee assignments:
Committee on the Budget, Chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor, and from 2015-2018, he served as the ranking member of what was then called the Committee on Education and the Workforce
Sponsored legislation:
In 2015, he was one of the four primary authors of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the first time in 13 years and replaced the No Child Left Behind Act. Additionally, in 2017, he worked to secure passage of legislation to reform and update our nation’s career and technical education system, as well as the juvenile justice system in 2018, which were both signed into law by President Donald Trump. The latter legislation, the Juvenile Justice Reform Act, contained core tenets of Congressman Scott’s Youth Prison Reduction through Opportunities, Mentoring, Intervention, Support, and Education (Youth PROMISE) Act, which he had introduced in every Congress since 2007 ("Biography", 2019).
About Virginia's 3rd Congressional District:
Voter registration deadline: Oct. 15
Absentee voting deadline: Nov. 6
Online registration:Yes
Same-day registration: No
Voter ID: Photo ID required
Poll times: 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Virginia's 3rd Congressional District was one of #9 House districts where a republican did not run in 2018.The 2018 Cook Partisan Voter Index for this district was D+16, meaning that in the previous two presidential elections, this district's results were 16 percentage points more Democratic than the national average. This made Virginia's 3rd Congressional District the 86th-most Democratic nationally ("Virginia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2018 - Ballotpedia", 2019).
Virginia Demographics:
| Virginia | U.S. | |
|---|---|---|
| Total population: | 8,367,587 | 316,515,021 |
| Land area (sq mi): | 39,490 | 3,531,905 |
| Gender | ||
| Female: | 50.8% | 50.8% |
| Race and ethnicity** | ||
| White: | 69% | 73.6% |
| Black/African American: | 19.2% | 12.6% |
| Asian: | 6% | 5.1% |
| Native American: | 0.3% | 0.8% |
| Pacific Islander: | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Two or more: | 3.2% | 3% |
| Hispanic/Latino: | 8.6% | 17.1% |
| Education | ||
| High school graduation rate: | 88.3% | 86.7% |
| College graduation rate: | 36.3% | 29.8% |
| Income | ||
| Median household income: | $65,015 | $53,889 |
| Persons below poverty level: | 13% | 11.3% |
| Source: U.S. Census Bureau, "American Community Survey" (5-year estimates 2010-2015) | ||
Bibliography:
Biography. (2019). Retrieved from https://bobbyscott.house.gov/about/biography
Virginia's 3rd Congressional District election, 2018 - Ballotpedia. (2019). Retrieved from https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia%27s_3rd_Congressional_District_election,_2018
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