Chris Scott

Portrait of VP Chris Scott

**Christopher Joseph Scott** is an American politician and attorney who has served as the senior United States senator from Massachusetts since March 2021 and previously September 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. representative for Minnesota's 5th congressional district from July 2020 to September 2020, and after Massachusetts' 7th from October 2020 to March 2021. Between the House and Senate, Scott has served in Congress for almost ten months.

Scott is a current Senator from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, serving as the Senate President Pro Tempore and the chairman of the Government Affairs Committee.

He also owns two businesses, the Independent Commission on Congressional Debates (disbanded) and C-SPAN (indefinitely closed).

## House of Representatives

#### **Elections**

**December 2020 Election**

*See the December 2020 House of Representatives Election*

Scott was elected as a representative from Massachusetts' seventh congressional district in December of 2020, receiving 10% of the vote and having 7 votes. He came in fourth place, behind Olivia Adams (now Lucas Hill), Rand Paul, and Erika Hohenzollern.

**February 2021 Election**

*See the February 2021 House of Representatives Election*

Scott was re-elected as a representative from Massachusetts' seventh congressional district in February of 2021, receiving 16% of the vote and having 16 votes. He came in first place, seven votes above Katherine Malraux, who came in second.

#### **Tenure**

On July 2nd, 2020, Scott was accepted as an applicant to the House of Representatives to represent the fifth congressional district of Minnesota. He supported multiple nominations including the nomination of Helen Minervini as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and Nicki Maraj for the Vice Presidency. He later supported and co-wrote Maraj's impeachment documents.

He also supported the Pollution Tax, a bill introduced by representative Farhan Ahsan; he also voted to override the presidential override of the bill.

Scott has introduced 21 pieces of legislation in total, most notably the Census Act, the MIAMI Act, the Supreme Court Resizing Act, and the Federal Employee Rights Act; all bills noted passed the House with a presidential signature. 19 of the pieces of legislation passed the House—a 90 percent pass rate. Scott also introduced two censures—the Resolution to Censure Congresswoman Hee-young Kim and the Resolution to Censure Dominic Wilson—that both passed the House. The Resolution to Censure Hee-young Kim was more of a partisan disagreement than Scott had expected. It passed the House with a vote of 6-4-0 (aye, nay, abstain). The censure was introduced as backlash to Rep. Kim's interruptions to several house sessions and a committee subpoena with the Secretary of Health and Human Services James Ripley.

 File:Scott Portrait Old.png  The first constitutional amendment was introduced by Scott, it amended the current constitution to add "When vacancies happen in the Representation of the People in their House, the Executive Authority of the Bloxburg United States shall appoint a Representative of the same political party to fill the Vacancy." The amendment passed the House with a vote of 6-0-0 in the committee and 7-0-1 on the House floor. After, a referendum was held and had a 91% approval rating, but the referendum did not pass due to the current restrictions of the Constitution.

#### **Committee Assignments**

Third Congress

* Committee on Government Oversight
	+ Scott was the Chair of the Committee on Government Oversight.
* Committee on Ethics and Rules
* Committee on the Judiciary
* Committee on Health, Technology, and the Environment.

Fourth Congress

* Committee on Government Oversight
* Committee on Ethics and Rules
	+ Scott was the Chair of the Committee on Ethics and Rules.
* Committee on Commerce and Economic Affairs
* Committee on Health, Technology, and the Environment

## U.S. Senate

#### **Elections**

**September 2020 election**

*See the September 2020 Senate Election*

Scott was elected as a senator from Massachusetts in September of 2020, receiving 19% of the vote and having 14 votes. He came in third place, behind Ryan Butera (now Ryan Bleed) and Farhan Ahsan.

**April 2021 election**

*See the April 2021 Senate Election*

Scott was re-elected as a senator from Massachusetts in April of 2021, receiving 40% of the vote and having 23 votes. He came in first place, six votes above Farhan Ahsan, who came in second.

#### **Tenure**

Scott was elected in September 2020, then appointed March 2021.

In his first term in the Senate, he introduced two bills—the National Security and Martial Law Act and the Congress Member Nickname Guidelines Resolution—one passed and one failed. The National Security and Martial Law Act highlighted a process for the President of the United States to issue two levels of an emergency, one being less intense and one being more intense. The NSML Act passed the Senate with a vote of 4-0-0 (aye, nay, abstain) and then passed the House with a vote of 8-0-1 (aye, nay, abstain).

The Congress Member Nickname Guidelines failed the Committee with a 0-3-0 votes (aye, nay, abstain).

Scott, after reverting back to a representative, was appointed to the United States Senate on March 20, 2021 for a second term after a presidential approval of the STAR initiative that was written by Farhan Ahsan and Chris Scott. He was sworn in March 21, 2021 and he became the second President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate on March 21, 2021, preceded by Ryan Bleed.

Scott presided over the first impeachment trial, the Impeachment Trial of James Ripley, which consisted of 3 sessions.

#### **Committee Assignments**

* Committee on Government Affairs
	+ Scott is the incumbent chair of the Committee on Government Affairs.

* Committee Rules and Oversight
	+ Scott is the incumbent chair of the Committee on Rules and Oversight.
* Committee Rules and Oversight

## Political Positions

#### **Foreign Relations**

Scott has expressed mixed opinions on how to go about foreign relations. He stated "*thank god were independent*" on July 25, 2020, but then stated "*this is a good time to not be independent, its abt time*" in a Discord lounge two months later. He supported foreign relations for a long time, but was cautious of unprofessionalism within the community.

He recently cosponsored a dual-citizenship bill, but also has supported amendments to exclude several unprofessional countries including the Bloxburg Republic of India. Most recently, he has expressed opinions that we should have foreign relations, but only with professional countries that BUSA finds 'up to par,' including the Bloxburg United Kingdom.

He has also expressed disapproval to the Department of State, assuming he does not agree with the United Nations and other global meetings in polls. He has disapproved of the Secretary of State in most recent polls.

#### **The Environment**

 File:AECA Spending.png  **Climate Change**

Scott has cosponsored and ayed multiple climate-change related bills including the AECA, Pollution Tax Act (also voted aye for the veto override), Microgrid Assistance Act, and the EPSIL Act, but has not introduced any bills exclusively related to climate change.

He is strongly for the preservation of the environment and believes climate change is predominantly caused by humans.

**Pollution**

Scott introduced the Water Pollution Control Act, that provided funding to the EPA to construct new waste treatment plants and to clean up oil spills and gave funding to the NOAA Marine Debris Program to clear ocean debris. The bill highlighted how the country would preserve the nation's waters.

The bill also made it policy that

* the discharge of toxic pollutants in toxic amounts was prohibited,
* polluting fertilizers are banned, and
* littering fines within a 250 foot span of a body of water will be increased by 1.5x to prevent plastic pollution in waters.

He has also cosponsored the Plastic Cleanup Act of 2021, introduced by Representative Anthony Laurence.

#### **The Economy**

Scott currently owns two businesses and has expressed support for the Department of Commerce and Treasury. He has cosponsored and cowritten multiple bills about the DOCAT including the Federal Grants Act, the British-American Business Act, and the Consumer Privacy Act. He also introduced the Public Servant Act and the Unlawful Operation of a Business Act both on behalf of Ryan Bleed.

#### **Bipartisanship**

Scott has agreed with the opposition party multiple times, most notably in cosponsoring and voting for Republican bills. Per his latest campaign advertisement, he stated that seven out of 11 bills he introduced with cosponsors had Republican cosponsors (64%). Most of his bills have passed with bipartisan agreement. (*See BUSA Legislature Trello*)

Contrast to above, he introduced the Censuring of Hee-young Kim, which he assumed would be bipartisan, but the opposition party declined that assumption.

#### **Employee Rights**

H.R. 022, the Federal Employee Rights Act, introduced by Scott, was intended to strength employee rights in the Government. It was written to help employees be shielded from discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It also allowed any federal employee to request a reason for termination within 48 hours of being terminated, and the employer would have to accept it and produce it within a week's time (unless the release of classified information would have to be sent).

The bill then included a section about "privacy rights" which kept employees safe from an employer asking for any sensitive information the employee did not want to participate in.

#### **The Supreme Court & The Judiciary**

**The Supreme Court**

Scott has introduced H.R. 035, the Supreme Court Resizing Act, which decreased the number of Supreme Court seats from nine to five (one chief justice and four associate justices). The bill passed 6-1-0 in the House (aye, nay, abstain). He has criticized the current administration for not making enough efforts to reconstruct the Judiciary and appointing justice to the SCOTUS.

**The Judiciary**

He has also been an advocate for the reconstruction of the Judiciary. He has supported multiple bills to add to the Criminal Code and has introduced two bills to add certain crimes to the Criminal Code—H.R. 026 and H.R. 036—which both passed the House.

#### **The Constitution**

Being openly criticizing of the current state of the Constitution, joining reps. Erika Hohenzollern and Harvey Galloway, Scott has pointed out numerous mistakes in the Constitution.

He has also started the BUSA Constitutional Convention with multiple members of the BUSA Government to overhaul the current constitution and make it easier to follow.

#### **Health and Human Services**

Scott introduced the MIAMI Act to start up the first medical school of BUSA, which passed the House with a presidential signature. This has been the only step to expand the DOHHS with the exception of Rep. Hohenzollern's bill that specified the same things, but did not go into effect.