Tim Scott (R-SC) is no longer a bachelor ... in which the senator told the news outlet he had a girlfriend and that the couple attended Bible study classes and pickleball matches together.

Tim Scott gets engaged South Carolina Senator ... leading some to question whether his girlfriend really existed. Asked at ...

She was engaged to Scott when she first met Tim at a Nashville gig at the end of 1994, and he was dating Kristine Donahue. However, when she joined his Spontaneous Combustion tour in 1996 ...