Preserving LGBTQ History

Scott led The Preserving Great Americans’ Legacies Act, to prevent the United States Navy from renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, and other ships named for other great Americans and civil rights leaders.

Expanding Voter Rights

Scott co-led the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act across multiple congressional sessions. This bill would strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA) in response to the Supreme Court's 2013 decision in Shelby County v. Holder, which effectively gutted the Act's preclearance provision. That provision required states and localities with a history of voting discrimination to submit any proposed changes to their voting rules for approval to the Justice Department (DOJ) before those changes could take effect.