Cotton Statement on the Opening of the New American Embassy in Jerusalem
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the opening of the new American embassy in Jerusalem: “America’s embassy always belonged in the capital of Israel, which both history and common sense tell us is Jerusalem. I hope the opening of […]
Cotton Statement on the Release of American Prisoners by 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 the release of American prisoners by North Korea: “I’m pleased that these American citizens will soon be on their way home. This release is a good step toward achieving a real, lasting peace, but […]
Cotton Statement on the Iran Deal
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 Iran nuclear deal: “The Iran nuclear deal, terribly flawed from the beginning, at best only delayed Iran from getting the bomb while handing over hundreds of […]
Cotton Commends AG Sessions’s Decision to Send Judges and Prosecutors to the Border to Deal with the Immigrant Caravan
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today commended Attorney General Sessions’s decision to send judges and prosecutors to the border to deal with the immigrant caravan: “No one has the right to break our laws and enter our country illegally. To allow such crimes to go […]
Cotton Statement on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech on Iran
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s speech on Iran: “Prime Minister Netanyahu has presented compelling evidence that Iran tried to build a nuclear weapon and lied about it to the world. No one should be surprised, […]
Cotton Statement on Treasury Sanctions of Chinese Fentanyl Trafficker Jian Zhang
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Treasury Department’s decision to designate Chinese fentanyl kingpin Jian Zhang, four of his associates, and the entity Zaron Bio-Tech (Asia) Limited as significant foreign narcotics traffickers: “Chinese drug traffickers have been sending fentanyl […]
Hill, Cramer Join Cotton in Crackdown on Opioid Trafficking
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today announced that Congressmen French Hill (R-Arkansas) and Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota) have joined his effort to crack down on opioid trafficking. In the House of Representatives, Representative Hill introduced the Ending the Fentanyl Crisis Act, legislation that will […]
Cotton Speaks in Support of Secretary of State Nominee Mike Pompeo
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 The office of Secretary of State has always held a place of special prominence in the President’s Cabinet. The conduct of foreign policy is the highest craft of statesmanship. In the Secretary’s hands rest matters of the most sensitive, delicate, and consequential nature, affairs of war and-we […]
Cotton Warns of Opioid Overdoses from Unwashed Poppy Seeds
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 An opioid epidemic is sweeping the country. More than sixty thousand Americans are dying from opioid overdoses each year-more than the number of Americans who died in all twenty years of the Vietnam War. What a staggering fact that is. But behind each number is a tragedy […]
Cotton Speaks on Statesmanship at the Claremont Institute’s Churchill Dinner
Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 Thank you all very much for the warm welcome. To my old teacher and friend, Charles Kesler, thank you for that kind introduction. After that, even I am interested in what I’m going to say tonight. It’s good to be back at the Claremont Institute. This […]