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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

Do you think it makes sense in this set of circumstances to extend the New START Treaty if Russia remains in violation of almost every other international agreement that they have made?

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Mar 13, 2018

I think it's a strategic approach. I think that they are limiting their strategic nuclear weapons while they circumvent this by building up their non-strategic nuclear weapons that are not limited by the treaty.

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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

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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Mar 5, 2018

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

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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 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

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

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 15, 2018

I know there is some dispute about the name of this amendment, so let's just call it the ``olly olly oxen free'' amendment because it says to the entire world: If you can get to our country in the next 4 months, olly olly oxen free--you…

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Feb 15, 2018

I wish to speak today about the so-called Schumer amendment. Now, that is not the name that some people give it, but I will give it that name. Abraham Lincoln said: If you call a dog's tail a leg, how many legs has a dog? Five? No, it has…

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Feb 14, 2018

it is imperative that Congress act to eliminate those caps and the risk of sequestration.

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