Rep. Scott Perry
Representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th District
pronounced skot // PEH-ree
Perry is the representative for Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district (view map) and is a Republican. He has served since Jan 3, 2019. Perry’s current term ends on Jan 3, 2025. He is 62 years old.
He was previously the representative for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district as a Republican from 2013 to 2018.
![Photo of Rep. Scott Perry [R-PA10]](/https/www.govtrack.us/static/legislator-photos/412569-200px.jpeg)
Our work to hold Congress accountable only matters if elections are decided by counting votes. President Trump, his advisors and associates, and Republican legislators collaborated to have the 2020 presidential election decided by themselves rather than by voters through their attempts to suppress state-certified election results at both the state and national level.
Perry was among the Republican legislators who participated in this. Shortly after the election, Perry joined a case before the Supreme Court calling for all the votes for president in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin — states that were narrowly won by Democrats — to be discarded, in order to change the outcome of the election. In the case, Republicans proffered lies and a novel legal theory which the Supreme Court rejected. (Following the rejection of several related cases before the Supreme Court, another legislator who joined the case called for violence.) Perry was also a part of a coordinated campaign by the Trump Administration to pressure the Vice President to exclude some Democratic states from the electoral count rather than follow the procedure set in law in which Congress may vote to exclude electors, and other extrajudicial strategies to suppress certified election results. Perry peddled debuked conspiracy theories about voting machines and pushed a plan for state legislatures with Republican majorities to replace their certified election results with a vote by state legislators and a plan to install a new attorney general who promoted election conspiracy theories. On January 6, 2021 in the hours after the violent insurrection at the Capitol, Perry voted to omit Arizona and/or Pennsylvania from the counting of presidential electors, which could have altered the outcome of the election in Trump’s favor. In 2022, Perry defied a subpoena to testify in the investigation of the January 6th Committee.
In 2023, Trump associates and top advisors pleaded guilty to submitting a fraudulent slate of electors to Congress from Georgia, making false statements about purported widespread fraud in the election, and tampering with voting machines after the election, admitted in civil court to posing as fake electors in Wisconsin, and were convicted of contempt of Congress for withholding documents during its investigation and assaulting police officers at the Capitol. Trump associates and top advisors are also facing charges for submitting fraudulent slates of electors to Congress (in Michigan, Nevada, Arizona, and Wisconsin) and Trump himself faces related criminal charges in state court. (He was also convicted in 2024 of falsifying business records to cover up acts that he believed might have hurt him in the 2016 election.) The January 6, 2021 violent insurrection at the Capitol, led on the front lines by militant white supremacy groups one member of which was convicted of sedition, attempted to prevent President-elect Joe Biden from taking office by disrupting Congress’s count of electors.
In the days after Jan. 6, Perry requested from President Trump a pardon for crimes he may have committed in attempting to change the result of the election in Trump’s favor.
Earmarks
Perry did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2024.
Most representatives from both parties requested earmarks for fiscal year 2024. Rather than being distributed through a formula or competitive process administered by the executive branch, earmarks may direct spending where it is most needed for the legislator's district. More about FY2024 earmark requests from Demand Progress Education Fund »
Analysis
Ideology–Leadership Chart
Perry is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).
The chart is based on the bills legislators have sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2019 to Nov 26, 2024. See full analysis methodology.
Committee Membership
Scott Perry sits on the following committees:
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House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
- Economic Development, Public Buildings, and Emergency Management subcommittee Chair
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House Committee on Foreign Affairs
Oversight and Accountability subcommittees
- House Committee on Oversight and Accountability
- House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence
Enacted Legislation
Perry was the primary sponsor of 2 bills that were enacted:
- H.R. 2597 (117th): To designate the United States courthouse located at 1501 North 6th Street in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, as the “Judge Sylvia H. Rambo United States Courthouse”, and for other …
- H.R. 366 (115th): DHS SAVE Act
Does 2 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.
We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110th Congress).
Bills Sponsored
Issue Areas
Perry sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:
International Affairs (36%) Transportation and Public Works (20%) Armed Forces and National Security (11%) Energy (9%) Crime and Law Enforcement (7%) Government Operations and Politics (6%) Immigration (5%) Taxation (5%)
Recently Introduced Bills
Perry recently introduced the following legislation:
- H.R. 10076: Bertie’s Respect for National Cemeteries Act
- H.R. 9594: Protecting Taxpayers’ Wallets Act
- H.R. 8869: IVF Protection Act
- H.R. 8616: EQUIP Act of 2024
- H.R. 8461: Student Loan Reform Act
- H.R. 8215: American LNG First Act of 2023
- H.R. 8053: No Propaganda Act
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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.
Voting Record
Key Votes
Missed Votes
From Jan 2013 to Nov 2024, Perry missed 122 of 6,893 roll call votes, which is 1.8%. This is on par with the median of 2.2% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
- GPO Member Guide for the photo
- GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills
