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Scott seeks $100M a year for body cams
Tuesday | July 28, 2015Scott became highly vocal in his support of body cameras after the string of deaths involving unarmed black men and white police officers, including the death of Walter Scott, a 50-year-old North Charleston black man who lived in Sen. Scott’s district.… Continue Reading
Fast-track bill that would defund Planned Parenthood
Tuesday | July 28, 2015The latest legislation comes after a third video surfaced Tuesday, which appeared to show a Planned Parenthood official in Colorado negotiating with someone posing as a buyer of fetal tissue. … Continue Reading
Scott wants $500 million for police body cameras
Tuesday | July 28, 2015The federal government would provide $500 million over five years to help local law enforcement buy body cameras under a proposal announced Tuesday by Sen. Tim Scott… Continue Reading
South Carolina’s Sen. Scott pushes for police body cameras
Monday | July 27, 2015In the wake of several violent high-profile incidents involving law enforcement and citizens in his home state and across the country, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., on Monday unveiled a $100 million proposal to help local police agencies pay for body-worn cameras for their officers.… Continue Reading
$100 million body camera bill is personal for Sen. Scott
Monday | July 27, 2015“Ms. Judy Scott, the mother of Walter Scott … said that her goal was to make sure mamas didn’t bury their boys,” Tim Scott said in an interview in a small office in the Capitol basement. “Here’s a part of the criminal justice debate, in my opinion — body-worn cameras — that are proven to be effective. We can stop some of that conversation immediately.”… Continue Reading
Parents group rallies at Capitol for school choice
Tuesday | July 21, 2015“When you give parents the choice, you really do give the kid a better chance,” Scott told The Hill. “You really open that child’s minds to amazing opportunities that they would not have seen before."… Continue Reading
Editorial: Criminal justice reform remains a worthy cause
Sunday | July 19, 2015Scott said earlier this year that he and other Republicans in the state are eying sweeping criminal justice reforms that could include the decriminalization of minor drug offenses.… Continue Reading
Amendment would allow greater school choice for all low-income children
Thursday | July 16, 2015Affirming his belief that every child should have access to a high quality education, U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), a leading voice for school choice in the U.S. Senate, has offered S.Amdt. 2132 to the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) to allow Title I funds to follow low-income children and strengthen educational options for their parents. … Continue Reading
Senate ESEA Debate: What to Expect This Week
Sunday | July 12, 2015An amendment from Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., that would allow Title I funding for low-income students to follow them to the public school of their choice.… Continue Reading
Title I funding portability is key to ESEA reform
Thursday | July 9, 2015Scott’s Title I amendment should be a key piece of the ESEA reauthorization. It reduces administrative costs, increases funding equality, gives parents more power, and gives administrators an incentive to provide the best education possible to underserved kids… Continue Reading
Sen. Tim Scott discusses gun laws after Emanuel AME shooting
Wednesday | July 8, 2015Scott said it was amazing to see the families making efforts in the names of their loved ones so soon after the shooting in Charleston on June 17. … Continue Reading
Senator Tim Scott Sees Barriers Coming Down, After Charleston Church Attack
Tuesday | July 7, 2015Having Mr. Scott stand on the Senate floor, holding back tears as he spoke about the victims of the Charleston shootings, left a deep impression on many colleagues, who stood in silence and watched. “Tim Scott was a House member from where the first shots were fired in Fort Sumter,” Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said in an interview.… Continue Reading
Clyburn, Scott to headline Emanuel AME Church benefit in D.C.
Tuesday | July 7, 2015Politics will be cast aside and House Assistant Democratic Leader James Clyburn, D-S.C., and Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., will make remarks Wednesday at a Washington event to support the families of the nine victims murdered in Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church last month. … Continue Reading
Sen. Scott’s decision on trade was the right one for South Carolina
Sunday | July 5, 2015Recently, Sen. Tim Scott voted for legislation that enables Congress to play its important constitutional role in formulating and directing U.S. trade policy. This legislation will benefit South Carolina workers and communities by opening markets for U.S. goods and services worldwide. … Continue Reading
Aiken legislators, Rural Health Services CEO react to Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare
Friday | June 26, 2015Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, the two United States Senators from South Carolina, are both Republicans, and both issued statements that denounced the Supreme Court’s ruling and blasted the Affordable Care Act.… Continue Reading
Striking the Confederate battle flag an importantsymbol of S.C. progress
Thursday | June 25, 2015In the Senate chamber in Washington, Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., led an emotional tribute. “What we saw from the nine families at last Friday’s bond hearing was simple, was powerful, and absolutely the best of who we are as Americans,” Scott told fellow senators who gathered around him. “We are Charleston. We are South Carolina. And, we are absolutely united.… Continue Reading
Tim Scott chokes up on Senate floor remembering shooting victims
Thursday | June 25, 2015Sen. Tim Scott, R-South Carolina, teared up while delivering an emotional speech on the events in his home state on Wednesday.… Continue Reading
Both SC senators discuss mass murder on Senate floor
Thursday | June 25, 2015Sen. Tim Scott was overcome with emotion Wednesday night discussing his conversation with one of the victim's sons.… Continue Reading
Senate halts for emotional salute to 9 Charleston victims
Wednesday | June 24, 2015South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott says the nation is committed to replacing "sadness with love" in the grief-stricken aftermath of the Charleston church murders. … Continue Reading
Senator Tim Scott tears up talking about Charleston
Wednesday | June 24, 2015Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.) teared up while speaking from the Senate floor Wednesday about the attack in Charleston. Scott said he spoke with the son of one of the victims who told him, "God cares for His people. God still lives."… Continue Reading
