they identified concrete steps Congress can take to deliver relief, such as raising the minimum wage, protecting the right to organize, and expanding access to paid leave.
Support raising the minimum wage, protecting workers' right to organize, and expanding access to paid leave to deliver relief for workers.
Occurrences
Evidence
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Scott said the United States should guarantee paid family and medical leave and called for a strong federal floor to expand access to paid leave.
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Scott co-introduced the Raise the Wage Act of 2025, which would raise the federal minimum wage to $17 by 2030 and phase out tipped, youth, and disability subminimum wages.
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The committee says every worker has the right to organize for higher wages, better benefits, and safer workplaces, and lists the PRO Act as key legislation.
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GovInfo lists H.R. 2743, the Raise the Wage Act of 2025, as introduced in the House on April 8, 2025, sponsored by Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, with the full title "To provide for increases in the Federal minimum wage, and for other purposes."
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GovInfo lists H.R. 20, the Richard L. Trumka Protecting the Right to Organize Act of 2025, as introduced in the House on March 5, 2025, sponsored by Robert C. "Bobby" Scott, with the full title "To amend the National Labor Relations Act, the Labor Management Relations Act, 1947, and the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959, and for other purposes."
Assessments
Scott materially advanced all three parts of the worker-relief agenda in the same federal term: he sponsored the 2025 Raise the Wage Act, sponsored the 2025 PRO Act, and used his committee role to push for a federal paid family and medical leave floor. However, the cited minimum-wage and organizing-rights bills were introduced rather than enacted, and the paid-leave evidence shows advocacy rather than completed federal expansion. This is meaningful same-term effort, but not full delivery of the promised worker-relief outcomes.
Scott materially advanced all three planks during the current term by co-introducing a 2025 federal minimum-wage bill, publicly pushing federal paid family and medical leave, and backing pro-union legislation and organizing rights through his committee role. But the record provided shows support and legislative effort, not that these worker-relief outcomes were enacted federally. Because the promise was framed around support rather than solely final passage, he earns substantial credit, but not full delivery on the underlying policy results.