Rep. Robert C. (Bobby) Scott

Recent Activity

• Jan. 26 Cosponsored HRES1046: Recognizing the significance of Black History Month.

• Jan. 18 Cosponsored HR4462: To accelerate the income tax benefits for charitable cash contributions for the relief of victims of the earthquake in Haiti.

• Jan. 12 Cosponsored HR4247: To prevent and reduce the use of physical restraint and seclusion in schools, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HR4329: To require the Secretary of the Treasury to mint coins in commemoration of President James Monroe, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES991: Commending the University of Virginia men's soccer team for winning the 2009 Division I NCAA National Championship.

• Dec. 15 Sponsored HR4326: To provide appropriate protection to attorney-client privileged communications and attorney work product.

• Sponsored HR4327: To amend title 18, United States Code, with respect to the good time credit toward service of sentences of imprisonment.

• Sponsored HR4328: To amend title 18, United States Code, to award credit toward the service of a sentence to prisoners who participate in designated educational, vocational, treatment, assigned work, or other developmental programs, and for other purposes.

• Sponsored HR4335: To provide for the redress of prison abuses, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HRES984: Recognizing the importance and contributions of the official United States naval history museums.

• Dec. 14 Cosponsored HR4321: To provide for comprehensive immigration reform, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 10 Cosponsored HR4290: To establish the New Economy Grant Program through the Department of Labor to create public works jobs on State and local lands and community-based public interest projects, to direct aid to State and local governments for the retention and rehir…

• Dec. 09 Cosponsored HR4180: To amend title 10, United States Code, to include the disclosure of sexual orientation by a member of the Armed Forces to a Member of Congress as a lawful and protected communication and to prohibit retaliatory personnel actions against members o…

• Dec. 07 Cosponsored HRES946: Recognizing that the rate of unemployment in the United States has reached the level of a national crisis, and for other purposes.

• Dec. 02 Cosponsored HRES929: Recognizing December 2 as the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery and the 60th anniversary of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly of the Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation o…

• Dec. 01 Cosponsored HR4187: To amend the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 to make modifications to the Chesapeake Bay environmental restoration and protection program.

• Nov. 30 Cosponsored HR3943: To amend the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to allow members of the Armed Forces who served on active duty on or after September 11, 2001, to be eligible to participate in the Troops-to-Teachers Program, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HR3238: To increase access to adult education to provide for economic growth.

• Nov. 18 Cosponsored HR4115: To amend title 28, United States Code, to provide a restoration of notice pleading in Federal courts, and for other purposes.

• Cosponsored HR4122: To support high-need middle and high schools in order to improve students' academic achievement, graduation rates, postsecondary readiness, and preparation for citizenry.