Tom Cotton

Votes Cast

25

Yea Rate

88.0%

Bills Sponsored

10

Missed Votes

0.0%

Tom Cotton is Arkansas's junior Republican senator since 2014, a Harvard-trained lawyer and Iraq-Afghanistan combat veteran who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee.

Thomas Bryant Cotton, a Republican first elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020, represents Arkansas's junior Senate seat. A Dardanelle native with Harvard undergraduate and law degrees, Cotton enlisted in the U.S. Army after September 11 and served as an infantry officer with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, earning the Bronze Star. After a single House term representing Arkansas's 4th District, he defeated incumbent Democrat Mark Pryor for the Senate in 2014. In the 119th Congress, Cotton serves as chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and sits on Armed Services, Judiciary, and Banking committees, where he addresses national security, China policy, and immigration enforcement. A prominent voice on hawkish defense strategy, Cotton introduced the Intelligence Community Efficiency and Effectiveness Act in 2025 and presided over the first Intelligence Committee hearing under his chair in January 2025, positioning himself as a leading figure in GOP national security deliberations.