Pursue an affordability agenda that lowers costs, creates good-paying jobs, and raises wages.

Robert C. "Bobby" Scott · Virginia · Democratic

policy impact 0.72 specificity 0.71 extraction confidence 85%

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Occurrences

Committee Democrats have a clear agenda to address the affordability crisis: lower costs, create good-paying jobs, and raise wages.

Scott said Committee Democrats have an agenda to address affordability by lowering costs, creating good-paying jobs, and raising wages.

Ranking Member Scott Statement on April Jobs Report
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he’s fighting to make college more affordable for students and families through his College Affordability Act

Promises to fight for more affordable college through the College Affordability Act.

Bobby Scott for Congress
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Evidence

House Democrats said Scott joined Bonamici and Markey in introducing legislation to ensure workers receive the full award they deserve when employers are found liable for discrimination.

Concrete worker-compensation legislation aimed at improving pay fairness and remedies for employees, but it is only an introduction so far.

partial same_term A for effort

Bonamici, Scott, Markey Introduce the Equal Remedies Act to Fully Compensate Workers for Discrimination, Hold Employers Accountable
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Scott said expanding Pell Grant access for short-term training in IT, health care, finance, and manufacturing has long been a bipartisan priority.

This supports the jobs and earnings side of the affordability agenda through training access, but it is advocacy rather than a delivered outcome.

partial same_term A for effort

Bonamici, Scott, Markey Introduce the Equal Remedies Act to Fully Compensate Workers for Discrimination, Hold Employers Accountable
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Scott, Sanders, and Warren urged the Department of Labor to rescind a proposal that would let alternative assets into 401(k) plans.

A concrete policy intervention to protect household savings and financial security, but it does not by itself show delivery of the broader affordability promise.

partial same_term A for effort

Bonamici, Scott, Markey Introduce the Equal Remedies Act to Fully Compensate Workers for Discrimination, Hold Employers Accountable
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Scott voted against the GOP reconciliation bill and said Republicans were not focusing on lowering costs and improving the lives of working families.

This is a concrete vote and statement, but it is opposition to a rival bill rather than affirmative delivery of an affordability agenda.

unresolved same_term A for effort

Bonamici, Scott, Markey Introduce the Equal Remedies Act to Fully Compensate Workers for Discrimination, Hold Employers Accountable
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Assessments

partial same_term A for effort

The promise was to pursue an affordability agenda, and the evidence shows Scott took concrete same-term steps consistent with that goal: he introduced worker-compensation legislation, backed workforce-training expansion, and intervened on retirement-savings policy. Those actions show meaningful pursuit on wages, jobs, and household financial security. But the record here does not show that he delivered a broad affordability agenda through enacted federal policy or clear measurable cost-lowering outcomes, so full delivery is not supported.

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