Cotton Applauds Supreme Court Rulings on Religious Liberty
Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) today released the following statement on the Supreme Court’s rulings in the Little Sisters of the Poor case and the Our Lady of Guadalupe case: “The Little Sisters of the Poor and other religious communities have been hounded for years by activist lawyers and politicians who demand they […]
Cotton, Tillis Introduce NDAA Amendment on Confederate Renaming
Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) today introduced an amendment to the 2020 National Defense Authorization Act that would create a commission to study all Department of Defense assets that are named after or commemorate the Confederacy or anyone associated with the Confederacy. The commission would submit a […]
Cotton Statement on China Imposing National Security Law on Hong Kong
Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after China passed a national security law for Hong Kong: “Xi Jinping and his Communist thugs must face severe consequences for crushing Hong Kong’s freedoms. The House of Representatives should pass the Hong Kong Autonomy Act to impose punishing sanctions on Chinese Communist Party […]
Cotton Statement on Supreme Court Decision Allowing Federal Executions
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 June 29, 2020 Cotton Statement on Supreme Court Decision Allowing Federal Executions Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the resumption of federal executions: “Daniel Lewis Lee is a white supremacist responsible […]
Cotton Condemns SCOTUS’s Overturning Louisiana Abortion Law
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 June 29, 2020 Cotton Condemns SCOTUS’s Overturning Louisiana Abortion Law Washington, D.C. — Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after the Supreme Court struck down a Louisiana law today requiring that individuals who perform abortions at clinics have admitting privileges in a nearby hospital: […]
Cotton Bill to Support Semiconductor Manufacturing in U.S.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 June 26, 2020 Cotton Bill to Support Semiconductor Manufacturing in U.S. Washington, D.C. — Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas), Chuck Schumer (D-New York), Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), James Risch (R-Idaho), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-New York), Susan Collins (R-Maine), Angus King (I-Maine), and Doug Jones (D-Alabama) have introduced […]
Cotton to Introduce the Washington-Grant Historic Preservation Act
Washington, D.C. -Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) will introduce the Washington-Grant Historic Preservation Act, which would amend the Veterans’ Memorial Preservation Act to provide for a one-year mandatory minimum for those who injure or destroy monuments dedicated to our most gallant American heroes. “Vandals are defacing and tearing down of statues of our esteemed forefathers such […]
Cotton Speaks Against D.C. Statehood
Our country faces real challenges today-for example, anti-American mobs are roaming the streets in many cities, tearing down statues of our greatest statesmen, men like Abraham Lincoln, U.S. Grant, and George Washington, after whom this capital city is named. But the Democrats aren’t doing anything about that problem. Oh no, on the contrary. The mob […]
Cotton, Gallagher React to DoD List of Chinese Military Companies
Washington, D.C. – Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Congressman Mike Gallagher (R-Wisconsin) today released the following statement after the Department of Defense shared a list of companies operating in the United States that are owned or controlled by the Chinese military. The publication of the list follows a September 2019 letter where Cotton and Gallagher, […]
Cotton Bill to Limit Over-Politicizing of Special Prosecutors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Caroline Tabler or James Arnold (202) 224-2353 June 24, 2020 Cotton Bill to Limit Over-Politicizing of Special Prosecutors Washington, D.C. — Senators Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Kelly Loeffler (R-Georgia) introduced a bill to require at least a 7-year gap between an individual’s serving on a special prosecutor team investigating a president or […]