Tom Cotton
Republican · AR · U.S. Senate
Bio
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.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 13.6 years
- Chambers
- House 2y, Senate 11.6y
- First took office
- 2013 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 55 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 49
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Senate Republican Conference Chair · 2025–present
- El Dorado, AR · 870-864-8582
- Jonesboro, AR · 870-933-6223
- Little Rock, AR · 501-223-9081
- Rogers, AR · 479-751-0879
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $368k – $1.0M
- Liabilities
- $1.1M – $5.1M
- Net worth
- −$4.7M – −$30k
- Since 2019
- −$2.8M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Tom Cotton's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Tom Cotton (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Cottonsits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Cotton's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Wait, Are Dems Ahead in ... Arkansas?You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside WashingtonDo Democrats have a chance to flip a Senate seat in Arkansas? One poll this week s…
The New Republic · August 21, 2026
Can A Farmer Really Pull Off An Upset In Arkansas?When a poll came out late last month that had Hallie Shoffner within the margin of error against loathsome scumbag Senator Tom Cotton (Cotton 46 - Shoffner 43), most of us just dismissed it as the sort of silliness one sees from both Republican and Democratic…
Crooksandliars.com · August 20, 2026- Cotton Statement Following Passage of Lindsey Graham's Russia Sanctions Bill
Today, Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) released the following statement after Senate passage of the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia Act of 2026:
Globalsecurity.org · August 7, 2026 
GOP Senator Falsely Claims Abdul El-Sayed Made Offensive 9/11 Remark, Then BacktracksArkansas Sen. Tom Cotton wasn’t the only Republican to make the mistake.
HuffPost · August 6, 2026
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