Senator Cotton Calls for Unanimous Consent for His Bill to Designate the Taliban as a Foreign Terrorist Organization
After Joe Biden’s disastrous retreat from Afghanistan, the country has fallen to a medieval band of degenerate savages known as the Taliban. Despite its depraved behavior, you won’t hear anyone in our government call the Taliban what it is: a terrorist organization. Instead, Secretary of State Blinken has said, for example, that the Taliban, “does […]
Cotton Demands Answers About Biden Strategy to Counter Huawei
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 22, 2021 Cotton Demands Answers About Biden Strategy to Counter Huawei Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Representative Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) today wrote to Secretary of State Antony Blinken about the continued proliferation of Huawei’s cloud services and to demand information regarding the Biden administration’s strategy […]
Cotton Statement on Democrats’ Plan to Block Iron Dome Funding
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 21, 2021 Cotton Statement on Democrats’ Plan to Block Iron Dome Funding Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after Democrats announced a plan to remove funding for Israel’s Iron Dome missile defense system from a government funding package: “On the same day […]
Cotton, Sasse Introduce Bill to Block Taliban Access to Chabahar Port
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 21, 2021 Cotton, Sasse Introduce Bill to Block Taliban Access to Chabahar Port Washington, D.C. — Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Ben Sasse (R-Nebraska) today introduced the No Harbor for Terror Act to revoke the Afghanistan exception to the Iran Freedom and Counter-Proliferation Act of 2012, which currently […]
Cotton Demands Answers About FAA Flight Restriction Over Southern Border
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 17, 2021 Cotton Demands Answers About FAA Flight Restriction Over Southern Border Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today sent a letter to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) demanding answers about the FAA’s temporary flight restriction over the southern border in Del Rio, Texas. In part, Senator […]
Cotton Statement on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 11, 2021 Cotton Statement on the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attacks: “On this 20th anniversary of 9/11 we remember the nearly 3,000 Americans who were taken from us on that terrible day. […]
Cotton Statement on Chipman Nomination Withdrawal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 9, 2021 Cotton Statement on Chipman Nomination Withdrawal Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement regarding President Biden’s decision to withdraw David Chipman’s nomination to serve as the head of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF): “David Chipman is an erratic, […]
Cotton Statement on Afghan Green Cards, Benefits
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 8, 2021 Cotton Statement on Afghan Green Cards, Benefits Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement on the Biden administration’s proposed short-term funding resolution that would grant green cards and other benefits to Afghans without regard for the normal screening and approval […]
Cotton, Colleagues Demand Answers About Afghanistan Withdrawal
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 September 2, 2021 Cotton, Colleagues Demand Answers About Afghanistan Withdrawal Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and 25 of his senate colleagues today sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding information regarding the humanitarian crisis created by his withdrawal of the United States from Afghanistan. Specifically, the […]
Cotton Statement on Kabul Airport Bombing
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: James Arnold or Mary Collins Atkinson (202) 224-2353 August 26, 2021 Cotton Statement on Kabul Airport Bombing Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the bombing outside the Kabul airport: “U.S. troops sacrificed their lives today to rescue their fellow Americans fleeing Afghanistan. We mourn their deaths and grieve with their families. […]