# Tim Scott **Tim Scott** is a Republican U.S. Senator from South Carolina. He has chaired the [[Senate Banking Committee]] since January 3, 2025, which puts him in charge of the panel that confirms Federal Reserve and financial-regulator nominees and that moved the [[GENIUS Act]] and the [[CLARITY Act]]. For the 2026 cycle he also chairs the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the party's Senate campaign arm. Gov. Nikki Haley appointed him to the Senate in December 2012 to succeed Jim DeMint. He served one House term before that (SC-01, 2011–2013), and he ran briefly for president in 2023. In 2026 he reversed an earlier pledge and said he would seek another term in 2028.