Any DACA deal must include an end to chain migrationThe HillBy Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), David Perdue (R-Georgia), and Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) If Congress and the president don't reach an immigration deal in the next two months, more than 690,000 young DACA recipients will lose their temporary work permits and protections from deportation. Nobody wants to see that happen. Most of these young people were brought to this country through no fault of their own, and they relied on President... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 End ObamaCare's individual mandate-it's cruel and pointlessFox NewsBy: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania) It's unfortunate and profoundly disappointing Congress proved itself incapable of repealing and replacing ObamaCare. But for lower-income Americans who feel the pain of this law each day, that's all the more reason for Congress to exempt them from one of ObamaCare's cruelest provisions: the individual... Read More

Our immigration plan is pro-worker and pro-growthSenator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator David Perdue (R-Georgia)USA Today President Trump got big applause last week during a speech in Ohio when he called for fixing our immigration system. Instead of a "terrible system where anybody comes in," the president advocated for a "merit-based system, one that protects our workers" and "our economy." According to polls, most Americans agree with him, but our outdated immigration laws do the... Read More

Repeal the Budget Control ActSenator Tom CottonThe Wall Street Journal ‘We need Congress to do its job," President Trump said Saturday at the commissioning ceremony for the USS Gerald R. Ford. "Pass the budget that provides for higher, stable and predictable funding levels for our military needs that our fighting men and women deserve." The president is right, but what's standing in the way is the Budget Control Act of 2011. So why don't we repeal it already? In retrospect, the Budget... Read More

Repeal the CFPB's Anti-Consumer Ban on Mandatory Arbitration ClausesSenator Tom Cotton and Representative Keith RothfusForbes Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued a rule prohibiting banks, credit-card companies, and other financial institutions from including mandatory arbitration clauses in new contracts. The CFPB claims to have struck a blow for consumer rights, but the truth is, this rule will be a boon to frivolous lawsuits-and a drag on our economy. Today, when... Read More

Drones and FederalismSenators Tom Cotton and Mike LeeThe Washington Times Last week, drone industry executives told President Trump they needed more regulation, not less, before they could expand further - a man-bites-dog story if ever there was one. But the answer isn't to keep waiting on Washington. It's to make use of one of our nation's founding principles: federalism. For now, the drone industry is grounded because the Federal Aviation Agency hasn't written guidelines for drones that fly... Read More

From our world-class universities and our unmatched workforce to our culture of entrepreneurship and drive for success, there are many reasons America's economy is the strongest in the world. But a bedrock of our economy is too often overlooked: our intellectual property system. Intellectual property rights have their own clause in the Constitution because our Founding Fathers recognized the importance of encouraging invention and innovation. They wanted the United States to be a place where we... Read More

On Memorial Day, Americans turn our thoughts to the nation's fallen heroes and one place above all: Arlington National Cemetery. It's the most famous and beloved of our nation's cemeteries, attracting more than 4 million visitors a year. I once served at Arlington with the U.S. Army's Old Guard, which performs military funeral honors there. In a sign of our national fascination with Arlington, the single most frequent question I get when I speak around the country is about my service with the... Read More

Countdown ClocksSenator Tom CottonThe Washington Post Just 364 days, 23 hours and 59 minutes to go until The Washington Post publishes its 2018 Spring Cleaning issue. In the meantime, we ought to ditch the countdown clock. These days, it seems like news channels are always counting down to something. But I can't quite agree with the networks about what's considered a clock-worthy "event." New Year's? Sure. A presidential address? Possibly. Rachel Maddow's Trump tax return "exposé"?... Read More

A Strike in Syria Restores Our Credibility in the WorldSenator Tom CottonThe New York Times After President Bashar al-Assad of Syria once again attacked his own citizens with poison gas, the civilized world recoiled in horror at images of children writhing in pain and suffocating to death. President Trump voiced this justified outrage at a news conference on Wednesday, and the next day he took swift, decisive action against the outlaw Assad regime. But these strikes did more than simply punish... Read More

Russia has subverted our treaty on cruise missiles for years. It's time to act.Senator Tom CottonThe Washington Post Gen. Paul Selva recently became the first Pentagon official to state publicly that Russia has deployed a land-based cruise missile in direct violation of its treaty obligations to the United States. Selva, who serves as vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in testimony before the House Armed Services Committee: "We believe that the Russians have deliberately deployed... Read More

Fix Immigration. It's What Voters Want.New York TimesBy: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) Donald J. Trump smashed many orthodoxies on his way to victory, but immigration was the defining issue separating him from his primary opponents and Hillary Clinton. President-elect Trump now has a clear mandate not only to stop illegal immigration, but also to finally cut the generation-long influx of low-skilled immigrants that undermines American workers. Yet many powerful industries benefit from such... Read More

Our President Desperately Needs an ObamaCare Reality CheckFox News Opinion By Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) When President Obama and Congressional Democrats rammed ObamaCare through Congress in a series of late night votes, the majority of Americans were rightly skeptical of the law. At the time, President Obama claimed the law was the answer to our health care problems and that skeptics would be proven wrong. And for the last six years he's held strong to that argument. Even as the ObamaCare... Read More

What We Learned in Scandinavia About MigrantsWall Street JournalBy: Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Congressman Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas) We recently visited Norway and Sweden to understand more about the European migrant crisis. What we saw provides important lessons for the American immigration debate. More than 1.5 million people have relocated to Europe over the last two years. Many are refugees from Syria, Iraq and other war-torn lands. Many are simply economic migrants leaving poorer... Read More

"Keep Calm and Carry On Trading"Daily SignalBy Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Mike Lee (R- Utah) Former British Prime Minister David Cameron warned that it could lead to war. A Brookings Institution scholar wondered ominously if it was the "greatest catastrophe" of the 21st century. CNN's Peter Bergen compared it to appeasing Hitler. And what exactly caused all these predictions of doom and bouts of anxiety? Not a violent military coup. Not an unstable dictator obtaining nuclear weapons... Read More

Why the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty is Still a Bad IdeaFox News OpinionBy Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and James Lankford (R-Oklahoma) The Obama administration has recently started to pitch the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) to the American people. As they begin yet another politically motivated public relations campaign, it's important to remember the Senate rejected this deeply defective treaty in 1999, and the case against ratification today is stronger than it was then. In the... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Shore Up US Nuclear ProgramDefense News By Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Steve Daines (R-MT) While it may be difficult to imagine given the destructive power they possess, nuclear weapons are a cornerstone of our national security. In fact, our possession of these weapons helps protect the United States and US allies around the world every single day by deterring our enemies. Regrettably, our nuclear capabilities are facing a readiness crisis and we must... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Apple's Brand Is Not Worth America's SafetyTime MagazineBy Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) Apple CEO Tim Cook recently explained his decision to refuse a court order to unlock the iPhone of a deceased ISIS terrorist. He stated that what's "at stake is the data security of hundreds of millions of law-abiding people, and setting a dangerous precedent that threatens everyone's civil liberties." But Cook is wrong, and the implications of his error will... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Mr. Obama, here's why closing Guantanamo is a big mistakeFox News OpinionBy: Senator Tom Cotton In his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, President Obama promised to "keep working to shut down the prison at Guantanamo" and said "it's expensive, it's unnecessary, and it only serves as a recruitment brochure for our enemies." But he couldn't be more wrong. Guantanamo Bay is a first-rate detention facility that's kept terrorists off the... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Proxy WarsForeign AffairsBy: Senator Tom Cotton The attacks by the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) in Paris have forced a major rethinking of U.S. strategy in the Syrian conflict. A part of that rethinking must be U.S. President Barack Obama's unwise decision to treat Russia as a legitimate partner in negotiations over Syria's future. At the G-20 meeting in Turkey this week, Russia quickly offered itself as a key partner in the fight against ISIS and... Read More