Cotton Statement on Thanksgiving
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Thanksgiving: “I want to wish all of you a very happy and blessed Thanksgiving from the entire Cotton family. In the earliest days of our nation President Washington established a day of Thanksgiving for Americans to, in his […]
Senators Write Secretary Carter and General Dunford With Concerns Over Release of Shaker Aamer From Guantanamo Bay
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) along with Senators Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), Jerry Moran (R-Kan.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Richard Burr (R-N.C.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) today sent letters to the Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter, and the Chairman […]
Cotton Statement on Attorney General Lynch’s Guantanamo Bay Comments
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s admission yesterday that transferring detainees from the Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility to the United States would be a violation of the law: “I’m pleased Attorney General Lynch seems to understand that the President’s plan […]
Cotton Statement on the Senate’s Passage of Two Resolutions Stopping President Obama's Clean Power Plan
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.– Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Senate’s passage two resolutions blocking President Obama’s Clean Power Plan: “President Obama’s Clean Power Plan is bad news for Arkansans and our state economy. It will bring a tidal wave of new rules and regulations and allow […]
Cotton Introduces Legislation to Postpone Impending Termination of Essential NSA Counterterrorism Program
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) will today introduce the Liberty Through Strength Act, which would delay the USA FREEDOM Act’s termination of the terrorist metadata collection program until the President can certify that the new NSA collection system is as effective as the current system. “The terrorist attacks in […]
Boozman, Cotton Call for Temporary Moratorium on U.S. Acceptance of Syrian Refugees
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Arkansas’s two United States Senators, Tom Cotton and John Boozman, today called for a new policy on Syrian refugee resettlement in the wake of the Paris terror attacks. Specifically, Cotton and Boozman are calling for: · a temporary moratorium on resettlement; · a report to Congress from the […]
Cotton Statement on President Obama’s Comments on ISIS
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the President’s comments on ISIS earlier today in Antaylya, Turkey: “President Obama continues to see the world as he wants it to be, not as it is. The barbaric attacks in Paris are more than a ‘setback’. They […]
Cotton Statement on the Paris Terrorist Attacks
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Paris terrorist attacks: “My thoughts and prayers are with the French as they mourn those killed in yesterday’s terrorist attacks. Know that America stands with you today. “These attacks are a terrible, but clarifying reminder of the […]
Cotton Delivers Federalist Society’s Barbara K. Olson Memorial Lecture
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Thank you very much for the kind introduction, and the warm welcome. It’s always an honor to speak to the Federalist Society. Back when I was a student and a lawyer, I belonged to the Federalist Society because I believed in individual freedom, constitutional government, the rule of law, and […]
Cotton Statement on Report of New Russian Unmanned Underwater Vehicle Capable of Delivering Nuclear Weapons Against the United States
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on an apparent accidental disclosure of a new secret Russian unmanned underwater vehicle, that would be capable of delivering nuclear payloads and inflicting catastrophic damage against U.S. port cities: “It comes as little surprise that Russia would be developing […]