Sometimes common ground typically leads to common sense, and we have found some common ground between the two of us.
Tim Scott
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Tim Eugene Scott is an American politician and businessman currently serving as the junior United States senator from South Carolina, a position he has held since January 2, 2013. He is a member of the Republican Party and was previously a United States Representative from May 5, 2011, to January 2, 2013. Scott is known for his focus on issues such as economic opportunity, education reform, and community development. He has been a vocal advocate for updating infrastructure and addressing the needs of senior citizens in his state.
If you have more burdens on the business of building homes, you have more burdens on the ability to achieve the American Dream, which, for most of us, is home ownership.
As a guy who used to run a county and chairman of Charlestown County government, many of the issues that we are grappling with here in Washington really are local issues.
For decades, Washington's response to housing challenges has simply been more spending. We need to end this cycle and stop spinning our wheels.
This Administration likes to talk about the need for more affordable housing, but as we all know, talk is cheap and leads to empty promises.
The prices of housing per square foot now has never been higher. If you have to have a minimum square footage to build a house, you are talking to first-time home buyers, and you are just saying, please do not bother thinking about being a…
Despite the overwhelming evidence and wide consensus that rent control or rent stabilization depresses supply...
Sometimes common ground typically leads to common sense, and we have found some common ground between the two of us.
I think it is by the year 2040 or so one out of five Americans will be over the age of 65.
Access to a quality education is a right, and politics should never prevent a student from receiving a high-quality education.
The Justice Act, which was championed by Tim Scott, and Cory Booker, but became stalled in 2020, does a lot of good stuff. It probably does not do enough.
I take the issue of policing in America, seriously. I want our Body to see it not as an issue of Republicans versus Democrats. But as good people standing in the gap, elected to do a job that we all ran to do. Let's do our jobs. We can…
We've been here too many times before. We cannot continue down this path. America cannot stand silent. Let it serve as a call to action for every lawmaker in our nation at every level.
Today, my CRA on public charter schools is a simple vote today. It is a vote for common sense; it is a vote for parents; and it is a vote for kids. Here is the truth: Everywhere in America, except for Washington, DC, this is an 80-percent…
I think if you are looking for a way to see that things are not broken and that things do happen on a bipartisan path, it is here on the Aging Committee.
Fifty years later we are still celebrating the Older Americans Act Nutrition Program because it has been so effective.
It is just red, white, and blue, and the more we focus on the American people, the more likely we are to find solutions that actually help the American people.
The truth is that so many of our nation's, the American families, when they have a single incident happen, it is not just uncomfortable or, gosh, I wish that would not have happened. It leads to a crisis.
I cannot think of a more important issue for us to discuss in the Aging Committee than making sure that our seniors have as much food as possible, that they are healthy, that they understand and appreciate how much we love them.





