Cotton Seeks USDA Action to Deal With Avian Flu Threat
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) said today that plans to address the threat of a renewed avian flu outbreak should be tailored to ensure the continued viability of the U.S. poultry industry. Senator Cotton along with nine other U.S. Senators penned a letter of concern to Agriculture Secretary Tom […]
Arkansas Congressional Delegation Concerned Over Timing of Clean Line Environmental Impact Study
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 WASHINGTON- U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman -along with Congressmen Rick Crawford, French Hill, Steve Womack and Bruce Westerman-are questioning the timing of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) release of its Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Plains and Eastern Clean Line Transmission Project. In a letter sent […]
Cotton Statement on Senate Passage of Bill Stopping WOTUS Rule
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Senate’s vote on a bill expressing disapproval of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule: “The Waters of the United States rule is government overreach at its worst. For months, the Obama […]
Cotton Statement on the Senate’s Vote to Stop WOTUS
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202)223-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Senate’s vote on the Federal Water Quality Protection Act (S. 1140), which directs the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw the Waters of the United States rule and issue a revised proposal: “Arkansans and Americans […]
Cotton Statement on Turkey’s General Election
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Turkish general election: “I have been deeply concerned about the state of Turkish politics. Governmental restrictions and pressure on media freedom, state interference in anticorruption investigations, and politically motivated violence against opposition parties have been blows to […]
Cotton Statement on the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015: “I cannot support a budget that does so little to cut spending or address the drivers of our debt. While this bill moves defense spending in the right direction, it’s not enough […]
Cotton Expresses Concern over Department of Energy/Clean Line Relationship
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.-Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to the Department of Energy expressing his concern over Clean Line’s application to the Department of Energy (DOE) for eminent domain authority over Arkansas and the potential for conflicts of interest to arise. Clean Line’s initial request to the Arkansas Public […]
Cotton Statement on Obama Administration's Invitation to Iran to Participate in Syria Talks
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.-Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Obama administration’s invitation to Iran to participate in Syria talks: “The Obama administration’s invitation to Iran to participate in Syria talks is the wrong course of action and sends exactly the wrong message to the Syrian opposition and […]
Cotton, Boozman Join Senate Effort to Nullify EPA’s Misguided Carbon Mandate
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202) 224-2353 Washington, D.C.- U.S. Senators Tom Cotton and John Boozman joined Congressional efforts to prevent the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from moving forward with its misguided carbon mandate. Boozman and Cotton joined with 47 of their Senate colleagues to file two joint resolutions of disapproval to stop the regulatory overreach of […]
Cotton Statement in Support of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act
Contact: Caroline Rabbitt (202)224-2353 Washington, D.C.-Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today issued the following statement in support of the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA): “The Senate’s vote on the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) tomorrow is critical to our national security. We live in a digital world and as such, we face digital threats unlike anything […]