Member of Congress · 119th Congress

Tom Cotton

REPUBLICAN U.S. Senator · ArkansasSenate 2015–now · House 2013–2015 (AR-4)

Tom Cotton is a Republican U.S. senator from Arkansas, in Congress since 2013, who voted with most Republicans on 100% of the 119th Congress’s yes/no votes and has had 2 bills become law since 2013.

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379Bills & resolutions sponsored113th–119th Congress (excludes amendments)

3Passed a chamberof 350 substantive bills (excludes resolutions and ceremonial bills)

2Became law2 substantive + 0 ceremonial · 113th–119th Congress · 1 this Congress

2Broke with partyof 901 yes/no votes, 119th (0.2%)

14Missed votesof 915 roll calls, 119th (1.5%)

$0Pork: own shareFY2024 earmarks: none on record

How we count: “Broke with party” is a yes/no roll call where the member voted against most of their own party on that vote (party as recorded; even splits not counted). “Pork: own share” splits each earmark shared by several members evenly among them.

5 most recent votes

YeaOn the Nomination — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Nomination Confirmed
YeaOn the Cloture Motion — Nomination vote
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture Motion Agreed to
YeaOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Ratepayer Protection Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
YeaOn Cloture on the Motion to Proceed — Stop Insider Trading Act
Sep 30, 2026 · Cloture on the Motion to Proceed Rejected
NayOn the Motion to Discharge — A resolution requesting information on Israel's human rights practices pursuant to section 502B(c) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961.
Sep 29, 2026 · Motion to Discharge Rejected

5 most recent bills

S. 5458 Supply Relief and Domestic Production Cost Reduction Act
Sep 22, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
S. 5454 Small Business Audit Correction Act of 2026
Sep 22, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.
S. 5422 Arkansas Delta National Heritage Area Act
Sep 17, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.
S. 4615 Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027
Aug 5, 2026 · By Senator Cotton from Select Committee on Intelligence filed written report. Report No. 119-133. Additional and Minority views filed.
S. 5083 Fiscal Sponsorship Transparency Act of 2026
Jul 22, 2026 · Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

Top bills sponsored

Laws first, then bills that passed a chamber, were reported from committee, or drew the most cosponsors.

Committees

Joint Economic Committee
No subcommittees
Select Committee on Intelligence — Chairman
No subcommittees
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Subcommittee on Airland, Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Subcommittee on Emerging Threats and Capabilities, Subcommittee on Strategic Forces
Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources
Subcommittee on Energy, Subcommittee on Public Lands, Forests, and Mining

Elections Sen. Cotton has won

Sen. Cotton has won 1 U.S. House election (2012–2012) and 2 U.S. Senate elections (2014, 2020). Of the contested races, margins ran from 17.1 to 33.1 points.

Democratic winRepublican winseat changed partyunopposed

Elections won3 in the data (1976–2024); losses are not listed

Closest win: 17.1 points2014, AR Senate

Won an open seat or took one from the other party2 of 3 elections (open seat or changed party)

Seat history, Arkansas’s 4th districtWinners, most recent three: Mike Ross (D) 2000–2010 → Tom Cotton (R) 2012 → Bruce Westerman (R) 2014–2024. Elections shown, not terms; special elections not included.

Seat history, Arkansas Senate (class 2)Winners in regular elections, most recent three: Tim Hutchinson (R) 1996 → Mark L. Pryor (D) 2002–2008 → Tom Cotton (R) 2014–2020. The seat is next on the ballot in 2026.

Full election history for this seat →

Source: MIT Election Data and Science Lab, U.S. House V15 / U.S. Senate V8 (CC0), retrieved 2026-10-18; winners matched to member records by seat and term. Results run through the 2024 elections; nothing from 2026 is shown until it is certified. A margin is a fact about one election, never a score of how well a member represents anyone, and PORKER does not rank members by it.

How has Arkansas done while Sen. Cotton served?

2015 to 2024 in Arkansas: typical household income was up 11% after inflation, the share of people below the poverty line was down 3.5 points, and the share of workers looking for a job was down 2.0 points.

Typical household income · after inflation

Arkansas: $55.8K in 2015 → $62.1K in 2024

Arkansas up 11%U.S. up 10%

Share of people below the poverty line

Arkansas: 19.1% in 2015 → 15.5% in 2024

Arkansas down 3.5 pointsU.S. down 2.6 points

Share of workers looking for a job

Arkansas: 5.8% in 2015 → 3.8% in 2024

Arkansas down 2.0 pointsU.S. down 1.7 points

Each mini chart has its own scale, fitted to its lines (it does not start at zero), so compare the numbers, not the heights. Oxblood = state, grey = U.S.

While they served, not because of them. This shows what happened in Arkansas during Cotton’s time representing it (2015 to now). It does not say what the member did or caused. It is not a score, and PORKER never ranks members on it.

Arkansas’s borders do not change, so every year is comparable. The Census Bureau has no 2020 yearly estimate.

See the full 20-year record →Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates (tables B19013, B17001, B23001) and BLS CPI-U-RS for inflation, retrieved October 18, 2026. “About the same” means the change is inside the 90% margins of error. Who held the seat: Congress.gov member service records, year level.

Local offices

Offices in the district or state, as listed in a public-domain community file. The Washington office is in the Contact section above.

El Dorado office106 W. Main St., Suite 410, El Dorado, AR 71730
Phone 870-864-8582 · Fax 870-864-8571 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Jonesboro office300 S. Church, Suite 338, Jonesboro, AR 72401
Phone 870-933-6223 · Fax 870-933-6596 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Little Rock office1401 W. Capitol Ave., Suite 235, Little Rock, AR 72201
Phone 501-223-9081 · Fax 501-223-9105 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)
Rogers office3333 S. Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Suite 425, Rogers, AR 72758
Phone 479-751-0879 · Fax 479-464-0648 · Map ↗ (OpenStreetMap)

Source: unitedstates/congress-legislators, district-offices file, September 24, 2026 ↗Licence: CC0 (public domain)

Evidence

File: legislators-district-offices-2026-09-24-8d698e92.json, entries C001095-el_dorado, C001095-jonesboro, C001095-little_rock, C001095-rogers (4 offices)
Published at: https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-district-offices.json
File date: September 24, 2026 (server “last modified”)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 8d698e92f8ebae3bdd387bfef239584164160e59d444ba1cbff46f32aa450f59
Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain)

Read this first. This list is kept up by volunteers and may be out of date. Confirm hours and addresses on the member’s official site, www.cotton.senate.gov.

Federal figures for Arkansas

Social Security and VA figures for this member’s state. The full table, sources and notes are on the state page.

736,994people receiving Social Security (OASDI) benefits, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 1, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 1; sheet 'AR - OASDI', row 5
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

94,336people receiving SSI payments, Dec 2025

Source: SSA, Table 2, April 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Social Security Administration, Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, “Congressional Statistics, 2025”
Table / row: Table 2; sheet 'AR - SSI', row 6
Data as of: December 2025; released April 2026
Licence: CC0 1.0, per the Data.gov record (id US-GOV-SSA-3372; record modified April 27, 2026)
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
Full file: cong_stats25.xlsx ↗
File SHA-256: 7d31378275e2801fafd143bb96877c3407261b24767b935661ab5f915f2fe87f

$2,241,567,823VA direct expenditures in the state, FY2025

Source: VA GDX FY2025, State Direct, September 2026 ↗

Evidence

Publisher: U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
File: GDX_FY25.xlsx, sheet 'State Direct Exp', row 7, FIPS 05
Prepared: September 2026 (per the file’s data guide)
Boundaries: 119th Congress districts
Licence: U.S. government work; no licence statement found on the VA page
Retrieved by PORKER: October 16, 2026
File SHA-256: 1cf95d35c842b0064eacb3055db4441a775163919a3e90d21d30d4966aefaf25

Open the Arkansas page, with notes →

Read this first. These describe the state, not the member. They say nothing about what this member did or did not do, and they are never used to rate or rank members.

Official records on bills this member sponsored

119th Congress. What Congress.gov lists for the 97 bills sponsored.

Record	Bills	Source
Bills sponsored	97	Source: Congress.gov member record, PORKER copy of October 25, 2026 ↗ See them →
With a CBO cost estimate listed	0	None listed
With a committee report listed	2	See the 2 →

Evidence

How counted: Bills where this member is the lead (first-listed) sponsor in the 119th Congress, read from the stored Congress.gov bill records
Fields: cboCostEstimates, committeeReports, constitutionalAuthorityStatementText, notes
PORKER copy refreshed: October 25, 2026 (nightly)

Read this first. These are counts of records Congress.gov lists. Many bills never get a CBO estimate or a report, so a zero is not a mark against a member. We never show this as a score.

Votes on civilian nominations

237 confirmation roll calls this senator was on the roll for, 119th Congress. A tally of what the record shows, not a score.

Yea 232 (98%)Not voting 5 (2%)

Yea · September 30, 2026 · Keith Sonderling Secretary of Labor
Yea · September 23, 2026 · Angela Veronica Colmenero United States District Judge for the Southern District of Texas
Yea · September 17, 2026 · Kasdin Miller Mitchell United States District Judge for the Northern District of Texas
Yea · September 15, 2026 · Matthew R. Byrne United States District Judge for the Southern District of Ohio
Yea · August 8, 2026 · Todd Blanche Attorney General
Yea · August 7, 2026 · Michael Kavoukjian Ambassador to the Kingdom of Norway
Yea · August 5, 2026 · Erica Schwartz Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Yea · July 28, 2026 · Walter Clayton Director of National Intelligence

Source: Senate roll call votes, as stored by PORKER ↗

Evidence

What is counted: Senate roll calls in the 119th Congress on the question of confirming a civilian nomination, as recorded on senate.gov. Cloture and procedural votes are not counted.
How it is matched: The vote record names the nomination number; the senator is matched by the Senate member id.
Not voting: Includes absences and any other reason. The record does not say why.

589 of the 617 confirmed civilian nominations show a roll-call vote on their latest-action line; the rest show a voice vote, unanimous consent or another method, with no individual votes. So this is only the roll-call subset. It says nothing about whether any vote was right or wrong.

All confirmed nominations Nominations hub

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Data as of Oct 26, 2026 (member stats) · latest recorded Senate vote Sep 30, 2026 · Sources: Congress.gov, Senate.gov, House Clerk, Appropriations Committee earmark tables. PORKER is non-partisan.