OAN Staff Brooke Mallory
5:04 PM – Friday, January 3, 2025
The 119th Congress convened on Friday, making Senator Tim Scott the longest-serving Black senator in U.S. history.
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Following the resignation of previous GOP Senator Jim DeMint, Scott (R-S.C.) was appointed to the Senate in 2012 by then-GOP Governor Nikki Haley.
“I know America is a land of opportunity, not a land of oppression. I know it because I lived it,” Scott has said previously, explaining how he grew up in a poor household being raised by his mother, whom he has often praised.
