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U.S. Senator, Arkansas · Republican

Tom Cotton

49 statements indexed, set against 915 recorded votes.

915 recorded votes

  • Voted for66672.8%
  • Voted against23525.7%
  • Did not vote141.5%
98.5%
of the votes they could cast
49
statements indexed
2,010
words on the floor

Turned up for 98.5% of the votes they could have cast, above the middle of the Senate, which is 97.9%.

In plain English

Cotton voted 98 times out of every 100 they could. That is more than the middle of the Senate, which is 98.

They vote the same way as James C. Justice more than anyone else. The two agreed 100 times out of 100.

Across the aisle they line up most with John Fetterman. They agreed 27 times out of 100.

The Record prints their remarks under 2 headings more than once. The list below names them.

First took office
January 6, 2015
Terms served
2 terms in the Senate
Previously
1 term in the House
Current term
January 3, 2021 to January 3, 2027
Born
May 13, 1977

Sources: Clerk of the House and congress-legislators.

What They Spoke On

Only two headings repeat in Cotton's indexed remarks: a wild horses protection bill at four and terminating a declared national emergency at two. Everything else appears once, taking in Hamas and surveillance authority.

The business the Congressional Record printed their remarks under, counted, with the chamber's own procedure left out. It is what was before the chamber, which is not always what the member was addressing.

What Was Said, and What Was Done

49 statements quoted from the Congressional Record and set against Tom Cotton’s votes. The most recent are below, one from each item of business, each linking to what it is set against.

All 49 statements, with a search →

Counted from the record

What Their Votes Add Up To

The Senate takes 54 votes of this kind this Congress against the House's 391: its floor time goes to cloture motions and nominations, where a yes does not mean pass the thing. There is not enough here to set out.

Voting With Their Party

On the 842 votes this Congress where a majority of Democrats took one side and a majority of Republicans took the other, Tom Cotton voted on 830 and was with the Republican majority on 828 of them.

830 party line votes cast

  • With their party82899.8%
  • Against their party20.2%

Votes Against Their Own Party

Who They Vote With

In Their Own Party

Of the votes both took part in.

Voting Across the Aisle

The record itself

Where the Words Are

The Congressional Record marks Tom Cotton as speaking in 96 items of business across 48 sitting days of this Congress.

Many of those appearances are procedural: yielding time, a request to revise and extend, a call for the yeas and nays. The count comes from the Record's own speaker tagging, which is not complete, so a member may have spoken more often than it shows.

The eight most recent, each linking to that day's Record at govinfo.

Every Recorded Vote

All 915 recorded votes of the 119th Congress in which the Senate lists Tom Cotton. The most recent 4 below, each linking to the official record of that vote.

All 915 recorded votes, newest first →

Elsewhere in the Record

The other Arkansas seat in this chamber is held by John Boozman.

How these records are gathered, and what they leave out, is set out on the Promise Tracker.