Cotton Statement on President Trump’s Announced Meeting with North Korea
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 […]
Cotton, Colleagues Introduce the PACED ACT Preserving Access to Cost Effective Drugs Act
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 […]
Fort Smith Awarded $8.5 Million Grant for Infrastructure Improvements
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 […]
Arkansas Delegation Statement on CMS Approval of Arkansas’s Work Requirements for Medicaid
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 […]
Cotton Statement on CFIUS Review of Broadcom's Bid for Qualcomm
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 […]
Cotton Statement on Senate Passage of the Taiwan Travel Act
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 […]
Cotton Statement on the Bombings in Eastern Ghouta
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 […]
Cotton Statement on U.S. Social-Media Companies’ Succumbing to Putin Regime Pressure
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 […]
Cotton Statement on the Senate's Failure to Pass Immigration Legislation
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 […]
Cotton Slams Reckless Immigration Proposal
Contact: Caroline Tabler (202) 224-2353 I want to speak today about the so-called Schumer amendment. Now that’s not the name that some people give it, but I’ll give it that name. Abraham Lincoln said if you call a dog’s tail a leg, how many legs does a dog have, five? No, it has four. Because […]