Tom Cotton
Republican · AR · U.S. Senate
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R +4 points of win probability since February.
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
- 13.7 years
- Chambers
- House 2y, Senate 11.7y
- 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.
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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
A Prairie Populist in Crimson-Red ArkansasFarmer and Democrat Hallie Shoffner is taking on Big Ag in a long-shot Senate race against Republican Tom Cotton. The post A Prairie Populist in Crimson-Red Arkansas appeared first on The American Prospect.
The American Prospect · October 8, 2026- Senate Republican on Trump posting Cotton’s number: ‘From 0 to ahole in about 3 seconds’ - The Hill
Senate Republican on Trump posting Cotton’s number: ‘From 0 to ahole in about 3 seconds’The Hill Trump Urges People to Call Senator Tom Cotton Over Daylight Saving BillThe New York Times John Thune says ‘no clear path forward’ for clock-change billPolitico Pe…
Slashdot.org · October 6, 2026 
GOP Senator Threatens to Reveal Trump’s Phone Number If He Doxes Him: ‘I Got His Number Too’Thom Tillis had a quick comeback when The View's hosts warned him that Donald Trump might doxx him like he did with Sen. Tom Cotton. The post GOP Senator Threatens to Reveal Trump’s Phone Number If He Doxes Him: ‘I Got His Number Too’ first appeared on Mediai…
Mediaite · October 5, 2026- Sen. John Kennedy Defends Tom Cotton, Says Trump Can Go ‘Zero to A-Hole in About 3 Seconds’ After President Publishes Senator’s Cell Number
Over the weekend, President Donald Trump took to Truth Social to rightfully call out Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) for standing in the way of the popular Sunshine Protection Act, a bill that would finally make daylight saving time permanent.As The Gateway Pundit’…
Freerepublic.com · October 5, 2026
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