Next year, Horry County will have its first new representative in the U.S. House of Representatives in a decade. Republican Tim Scott will succeed fellow Republican Henry Brown.

Scott sat down with NewsChannel 15's Tim McGinnis to tape an episode of Carolina This Week earlier this week.

Tim Scott beat out a large field of Republican challengers that included a former governor's son and the son of the longest serving senator from South Carolina.

He's already been to Washington and invited to join a committee that means he will help develop legislation that Congress will consider.

Scott says, "It's been a blessing. It truly has been a blessing. It's like living a part of a dream where you have the opportunity to do those things you dreamt about when you were in high school or college."

Scott is conservative. He was backed by members of the Tea Party, and he takes a strong stand against earmarks, calling for a moratorium on the way money typically gets set aside for special projects, like Interstate 73.

According to Scott, "The truth is in the numbers, and in the last decade, we've been able to receive less than three percent of the overall funding for I-73. The fact is in South Carolina, where we're not in powerful positions or on powerful committees, we have got the crumbs while the rest of the nation has been able to get the whole loaf."

Scott says instead of earmarks, he will try to get money for the massive project that would bring an interstate to Horry County by getting it written into a bill or lobbying the president to give the money out of his own budget.

According to Scott, I-73 isn't the only way to bring more jobs and money to the county. "From my perspective, we've had so much emphasis on the infrastructure project, that we have not talked about diversifying our economy. We have not talked about recruitment of new businesses. We've always said what won't happen, because we don't have the necessary infrastructure."

Talking about health care, the congressman-elect isn't too optimistic about throwing out the legislation passed last year. "Here's what's unreasonable, the notion that we can repeal Obama Care. We will try to, there's no question. It will take a two-thirds veto in both houses to override the president's veto, and we don't have the numbers."

However, Scott says Republicans may be able to defund many parts of the legislation.

You can watch the entire interview with Congressman-elect Tim Scott, Sunday morning at 9:00, on Carolina This Week, on NewsChannel 15.