Cotton Statement on Right to Try Act of 2017 Becoming Law
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after President Trump signed the Right to Try Act into law: “We’ve had a right-to-try law on the books in Arkansas for years, and once the president signs it, this bill will expand that right […]
Cotton Statement on Memorial Day
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Memorial Day: “Memorial Day began as Decoration Day, as communities and families decorated the graves of fallen soldiers with flags and flowers. The tradition continues today across our land, with flags and flowers adorning […]
Cotton Statement on Committee Passage of NDAA Bill
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the completed markup of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 in the Senate Armed Services Committee: “The committee has written a strong piece of legislation that allows us to build a […]
Cotton Statement on Banking Regulatory-Relief Bill Becoming Law
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement after President Trump signed S. 2155, the Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act, into law: “This is a good day for the thousands of community banks and credit unions in Arkansas and across […]
Cotton Statement on Cancellation of Summit with North Korea
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on President Trump’s decision to withdraw from the upcoming summit with North Korea: “North Korea has a long history of demanding concessions merely to negotiate. While past administrations of both parties have fallen for this […]
Cotton Statement on the Supreme Court’s Decision to Hear Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Virginia Uranium, Inc. v. Warren, concerning Virginia’s ban on uranium mining, which runs afoul of federal law: “Our ability to produce nuclear energy is a matter of […]
Cotton Statement on Secretary Pompeo’s New Iran Strategy
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Secretary Pompeo’s new Iran strategy: “Today, Secretary Pompeo laid out a wise strategy to eliminate Iran’s nuclear-weapons program once and for all. Every single one of his demands is vital to securing peace […]
Cotton Statement on HHS’s Proposed Rules for Title X Funding
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Department of Health and Human Services’s new proposal to protect Title X family-planning grants from being used to fund abortion clinics: “It’s a basic principle of human decency that taxpayer dollars should […]
Cotton Statement on Senate Resolution Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of The Old Guard’s Reactivation
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the passage of a Senate resolution commemorating the 70th anniversary of The Old Guard’s reactivation into service: “Ever since the early days of the republic, the 3rd Infantry Regiment, more commonly known as […]
Cotton Urges Confirmation of CIA Director Nominee Gina Haspel
The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency is not as old an office as some others in the President’s Cabinet, but it’s no less important. The Director’s job is to provide the critical information on which the President’s national-security decisions are based. And for this reason, presidents of both parties have chosen seasoned statesmen to […]