Cotton Statement on the Use of Private Email Accounts by EPA Officials
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the use of private email accounts by EPA officials: “The EPA seems to know no bounds when it comes to circumventing the law to impose their will on Arkansas and America. We have known that former administrator Lisa […]
Arkansas Delegation Denounces DOE Clean Line Approval
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton, Senator John Boozman, Congressman Rick Crawford, Congressman French Hill, Congressman Steve Womack, and Congressman Bruce Westerman today issued the following statement in response to an announcement by the Department of Energy (DOE) to use Section 1222 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (P.L. 109-58) […]
Cotton Statement on the Sixth Anniversary of Obamacare
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the sixth anniversary of Obamacare: “Six years after Obamacare was rammed into law its legacy is fewer choices, higher-costs, and massive debt. Worse, this unworkable law has decimated the market for individual and catastrophic care plans, and tens-of-thousands […]
Cotton Statement Following the Terrorist Attacks in Brussels
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement about the terrorist attacks in Brussels this morning: “My thoughts and prayers are with the victims of today’s terrorist attacks and with the Belgian people. The terrorists who are tearing apart the Islamic world have now shown repeatedly that […]
Cotton Statement on Reports That the Castro Regime has Arrested Elizardo Sanchez
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202)224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on reports that the Castro regime has arrested Elizardo Sanchez, a prominent and peaceful human-rights activist in Cuba, on the eve of President Obama’s trip to Cuba: “President Obama’s opening to Cuba has yielded little besides continued affronts, crackdowns, and […]
Cotton Introduces the Iran Terrorism and Human Rights Sanctions Act
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.– Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) yesterday joined U.S. Senators Mark Kirk (R-Ill.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.), Dan Coats (R-Ind.), Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), […]
Cotton Introduces Religious Persecution Relief Act to Protect Syrian Religious Minorities
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today introduced the Religious Persecution Relief Act, legislation that would grant religious minorities fleeing persecution at the hands of ISIS and other groups in Syria priority status so they can apply directly to the U.S. resettlement program. The bill will also set aside 10,000 […]
Cotton Speaks on the Senate Floor on the Persecution of Religious Minorities in Syria and Iraq
Six months ago, a 12-year-old boy stood before a crowd in a Syrian village not far from Aleppo. This boy was a Christian, and standing above him were Islamic State terrorists holding knives. In the crowd was the boy’s father, a Christian minister. Methodically, the terrorists began cutting off the young boy’s fingers. Amidst his […]
Cotton Statement on President Obama’s Supreme Court Nominee
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on President Obama’s Supreme Court nominee: “In a few short months, we will have a new President and new Senators who can consider the next Justice with the full faith of the people. Why would we cut off the […]
Senator Cotton Speaks About National Agriculture Day on the Senate Floor
I grew up on a cattle farm in Dardanelle, where I started helping my dad around the farm when I was just a little boy. In fact, I was kicking hay bales off the truck when I was barely bigger than those hay bales. Growing up, most people I knew had some kind of connection […]