Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the announcement that President Trump has agreed to meet with Kim Jong-un: "The patterns of U.S.-North Korea crises are well-worn and North Korea's nuclear and missile capabilities are obvious. A summit could possibly break those patterns and lead to the peaceful denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula. But we must remain deeply skeptical of North Korea's... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) along with Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), David Perdue (R-Georgia) today introduced the Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs (PACED) Act, which restores the power of the Patent and Trade Office and federal courts, and the International Trade Commission to review patents regardless of sovereign immunity claims made as part of... Read More

Cotton Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 WASHINGTON - U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and John Boozman (R-AR) and Congressman Steve Womack (AR-03) announced that Fort Smith will receive a $8,527,893 grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to repair and rehabilitate three rail bridges that cross Clear Creek and the Arkansas River. One bridge spans the Arkansas River, and the project will rehabilitate many of its structural components, along with the electrical and... Read More

Cotton Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and John Boozman (R-Arkansas), and Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-01), French Hill (AR-02), Steve Womack (AR-03), and Bruce Westerman (AR-04) today released the following statement applauding CMS's approval of work requirements for Arkansas's Medicaid program: "Encouraging people who can work to find employment is a common-sense policy with a track record of success. It not only focuses... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States's decision to delay a Qualcomm shareholder meeting to allow for a more extensive review of a takeover bid by Broadcom: "Qualcomm's work is too important to our national security to let it fall into the hands of a foreign company-and in a hostile takeover no less. I raised concerns about this proposed... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Senate passage of the Taiwan Travel Act that will encourage visits between U.S. and Taiwanese officials: "China has made a concerted effort to isolate the people of Taiwan, and only U.S. leadership can push back against this aggression. This legislation is a clear statement of the high regard in which we hold Taiwan, and now the administration should act on... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the attacks on rebel-held Eastern Ghouta by Bashar Assad's forces in Syria: "Only two days after the U.N. Security Council unanimously called for a ceasefire, the Assad regime has killed hundreds of its own people in Eastern Ghouta. It's especially barbaric to target hospitals and clinics, and there are reports that the regime may have once again used... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after social-media companies YouTube and Instagram censored content on Russian opposition leaders' accounts. In addition, Instagram was found to have cooperated further with the Putin regime by blocking access to posts deemed embarrassing by Russian officials. "It's disappointing that these social-media companies, supposedly dedicated to freedom of expression, would... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353   Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after the Senate failed to pass immigration legislation: "What this debate has shown is just how unserious the Democrats are about illegal immigration. If they were serious, they wouldn't have shut down the government over DACA only to reject the one bill, endorsed by the president, that would've given DACA recipients the legal certainty they need. And they... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Senators to Introduce Border Security, DACA Framework WASHINGTON D.C. -A group of U.S. Senators tomorrow will introduce a common-sense proposal aimed at providing legal certainty for undocumented children brought to the United States by their parents and preventing others from falling into the same legal limbo in the future. Their proposal, which mirrors the White House framework announced by President Trump, provides a generous opportunity for... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Senate passage of the budget. "This budget agreement will give our military a desperately needed spending increase as well as the certainty it needs to plan ahead for the coming years. But the very fact that we need to pass this agreement four months into the fourth year demonstrates the folly of keeping the Budget Control Act on the books. It hasn't controlled... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (Cotton) 202-224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Doug Jones (D-Alabama) today introduced legislation that would clarify commercial real estate lending rules by providing a clear definition for loans requiring larger capital allocations, referred to as high volatility commercial real estate (HVCRE) loans. Ambiguity around HVCRE rules has not only hindered commercial real estate investment, but also created incentives for... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington D.C. - U.S. Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Richard Blumenthal (D-Connecticut), members of the Senate Armed Services Committee, wrote to U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis to voice concerns about the collection of location data of U.S. servicemembers abroad. The Senators' letter follows news that the U.S. military is reviewing the use of wireless devices, like Google's Android, at military facilities after revelations that fitness... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Marco Rubio (R-Florida) today introduced the Defending U.S. Government Communications Act, legislation that would prohibit the United States government from purchasing or leasing telecommunications equipment and/or services from Huawei, ZTE, or any subsidiaries or affiliates. "Huawei is effectively an arm of the Chinese government, and it's more than capable of stealing information from U.S. officials... Read More

  Contact: Caroline Tabler 202-224-2353   Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) along with Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), John Cornyn (R-Texas), and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) today introduced Eric's Law, a bill that aims to deliver justice to victims and their families in federal death penalty cases. The legislation would permit prosecutors to impanel a second jury for sentencing if the first jury fails to reach a unanimous sentencing decision. Eric's Law is named for... Read More

Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after the Department of Defense released the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review. "Our nuclear deterrent has grown dangerously old; some of the missiles in our arsenal were built almost half a century ago. In the meantime, Russia and China have been expanding their arsenals and rapidly catching up to us. Having a nuclear arsenal that's second to none has been the best... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) tonight released the following statement on President Trump's State of the Union address: "Tonight, the president outlined an ambitious agenda for the year ahead, and I look forward to working on this agenda. I was especially pleased to hear him commit to a defense budget that takes seriously the threats we face, and I strongly support his executive order to keep Guantanamo Bay open. We also need... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after Senate Democrats filibustered the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act: "It's a sad state of affairs when a bill that a broad majority of Americans supports can't even get a vote on the Senate floor. Senate Democrats insist on putting ideology before science and refuse to help us protect the most innocent of all Americans. But whatever political... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) along with Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) today introduced the Iranian Leadership Asset Transparency Act, which would require the Treasury Department to provide a report estimating the assets of key figures in the Iranian government. "This report will expose to all the world just how badly the ayatollahs have mismanaged the Iranian economy and just how much money they've stolen from the Iranian... Read More

Contact: Caroline Rabbitt Tabler (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. - Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny: "Vladimir Putin has once again thrown Alexei Navalny in jail because he is afraid of his own people - and what they would do if they were free. Every time he imprisons an opposition leader, it only shows the world just how corrupt and oppressive his regime truly is." Read More