Sen. Cotton, Tom
Republican · Arkansas · Senate
Thomas Bryant Cotton is an American politician and former Army officer serving since 2015 as the junior United States senator from Arkansas. From 2013 to 2015 he served in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Arkansas's 4th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Voting record
- Participation: shows up to vote 96% of the time.
- Bipartisanship: votes with the opposing party's majority 30.1% of the time.
- Alignment with the district's political lean: 55.8%.
- Bills sponsored: 250; passed into law: 0.
Recent votes by Sen. Cotton, Tom
- Voted Nay on Study health career training grant outcomes — Inflation Reduction Act of 2022
- Voted Yea on Tightens banking sanctions on Russia — CHIPS and Science Act of 2022
- Voted Yea on Increase Medicare and Medicaid payments to rural hospitals — Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act
- Voted Yea on Speaker reserves procedural placeholder for House — Secure the Border Act of 2023
- Voted Yea on Exempts active military pay from federal income tax — National Defense Authorization Act FY2024
- Voted Nay on Procedural placeholder reserved for Speaker — Lower Drug Costs Now Act
- Voted Yea on Increases airport passenger fees through 2030 — Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
- Voted Yea on Speaker reserves bill number for future legislation — Parents Bill of Rights Act
- Voted Nay on Designates Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist group — Clean Energy for America Act
- Voted Yea on Eliminates funding for National Endowment for Humanities — Social Security Fairness Act
- Voted Not Voting on Grants to help foreign-trained health workers — Continuing Appropriations and Extensions Act, 2025
- Voted Yea on Large independent banks face stricter oversight — Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act
- Voted Yea on Limits EPA power over wetland disposal sites — FAA Reauthorization Act of 2024
- Voted Nay on U.S. semiconductor and tech R&D investment surge — A bill to establish a new Directorate for Technology and Innovation in the National Science Foundation, to establish a regional technology hub program, to require a strategy and report on economic security, science, research, innovation, manufacturing, and job creation, to establish a critical supply chain resiliency program, and for other purposes.
- Voted Yea on Blocks federal vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers — A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to "COVID-19 Vaccination and Testing; Emergency Temporary Standard".
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