{"id":971,"date":"2026-09-13T17:06:04","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/cpt_politics\/rick-scott-u-s-senator-florida-class-i-seat\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T17:06:04","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T17:06:04","slug":"rick-scott-u-s-senator-florida-class-i-seat","status":"publish","type":"cpt_politics","link":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/politics\/rick-scott-u-s-senator-florida-class-i-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Rick Scott"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Scott is the U.S. Senator, Florida (Class I seat). A U.S. senator writes and votes on federal law, controls federal spending, and confirms or rejects presidents&#8217; nominees for judgeships and cabinet posts. Senators represent the entire state of Florida rather than a district, and their offices help residents cut through problems with federal agencies like Social Security, the VA and immigration services.<\/p>\n<p>Current term ends January 3, 2031. NOT on the ballot November 3, 2026; next regular election is 2030.<\/p>\n<h3>Notes<\/h3>\n<p>Republican. Sworn in January 3, 2019, re-elected 2024. Term end date confirmed on the Ballotpedia Florida delegation page, September 2026. Official site confirmed at senate.gov.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rick Scott is the U.S. Senator, Florida (Class I seat). A U.S. senator writes and votes on federal law, controls federal spending, and confirms or rejects presidents&#8217; nominees for judgeships and cabinet posts. Senators represent the entire state of Florida rather than a district, and their offices help residents cut[&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":972,"menu_order":1101,"template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"wds_primary_politics-category":0},"politics-category":[],"class_list":["post-971","cpt_politics","type-cpt_politics","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics\/971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cpt_politics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/cpt_politics"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"politics-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oddusee.com\/tampa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/politics-category?post=971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}