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Tom Cotton

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Tom Cotton is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Arkansas since January 2015. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a prominent voice on various national security and foreign policy issues. Cotton is known for his strong stance on military matters and has advocated for a robust U.S. presence abroad, particularly in relation to China and Russia. He has also focused on immigration reform and economic policies aimed at supporting American workers.

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Mar 13, 2018

I strongly support that as well. But I think that we have a real opportunity in the very short term...

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Mar 13, 2018

I think it's an extremely high priority, and most people probably underestimate how close we are to that kind of solution.

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Mar 5, 2018

It's very risky to transfer nuclear, chemical, or biological technology if you care for the preservation--the long-term preservation of your regime.

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Mar 5, 2018

So, we shouldn't play Charlie Brown to their Lucy once again on that football.

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Mar 5, 2018

It's one thing to sit down and talk with an adversary. We did that with the Soviet Union throughout the Cold War. It's another thing to bribe that adversary to sit down and talk with us.

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Feb 28, 2018

I do not think that is good for American citizens. I do not think that is good for our economy, and I will continue to work hard to make sure that those workers share in the prosperity that all Americans in the upper-income brackets…

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Feb 28, 2018

While our unemployment rate is a bit of good news at 4.1 percent and jobless claims seem to be continuing to trend downward, it is somewhat surprising, given those economic conditions, that over the last year labor force participation…

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Feb 28, 2018

One of my top priorities is to ensure that hardworking Arkansans can share in the economic prosperity that we see in our country in ways that they have not over the course of my lifetime.

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Feb 28, 2018

I want to talk about the labor market, in particular wage growth for America's workers.

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Feb 14, 2018

The principal driver behind us making modification to the course, it was not about lowering attrition, it was about making students more successful to complete the course.

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Feb 14, 2018

I think the taxpayer deserves to have them out, performing their job.

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Feb 14, 2018

If the threats from Russia and China and Iran and North Korea, potentially other now or future nuclear states were to grow and our leaders determine that we need to produce more than that number of pits per year, with additional funding…

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Feb 14, 2018

I think that is an important point. Almost all strategic discussions, certainly strategic arms control negotiations revolve around the bilateral threat between the United States and Russia.

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Feb 14, 2018

Again, driven primarily by the threat that Russia has posed by both the rhetoric and the reality of their nuclear modernization.

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Feb 14, 2018

That threat is primarily driving the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review for our country.

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Feb 14, 2018

This has been a continuing pattern of behavior that creates a threat to the United States that we have to respond to.

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Feb 14, 2018

The aspects of the INF [Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty] Treaty that limit our ability to counter Chinese and other countries' land-based missiles, I think is problematic.

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Feb 14, 2018

Ultimately, Senator--depending on the size of the shortfall, ultimately, it could mean we lose in war.

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Feb 14, 2018

If you were a Saudi leader or an Emirati leader, you probably would not be very happy about those missiles being able to range your citizens. Would you?

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Feb 14, 2018

Well, that is not very neighborly of Iran with its neighbor, Saudi Arabia.

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Feb 14, 2018

How can anybody stand by and watch what is happening to those little children throughout Syria?

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Feb 14, 2018

I want to add my voice to Senator Blumenthal and his concerns about what is happening in Syria.

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Feb 14, 2018

Last year, the Senate ratified the Montenegro Accession Treaty to have Montenegro join NATO.

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Feb 14, 2018

They are very concerned that there are a large number of Venezuelans who are being pushed across the border, that are being encouraged to vote in elections.

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