Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton
United States Senator
from Arkansas
Assumed office
January 3, 2015
Serving with John Boozman
Preceded by Mark Pryor
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Arkansas's 4th district
In office
January 3, 2013 – January 3, 2015
Preceded by Mike Ross
Succeeded by Bruce Westerman
Personal details
Born Thomas Bryant Cotton
(1977-05-13) May 13, 1977
Dardanelle, Arkansas, U.S.
Political party Republican
Spouse(s) Anna Peckham (m. 2014)
Children 1
Residence Dardanelle, Arkansas
Alma mater Harvard University (A.B., J.D)
Occupation Attorney
Religion Methodism
Website Senate website
Campaign website
Military service
Allegiance  United States
Service/branch  United States Army
Years of service 2005–2009 (active)
2010–2013 (reserve)
Rank Captain
Unit 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division
3d Infantry Regiment
Battles/wars Iraq War
Afghanistan War
Awards

Thomas Bryant "Tom" Cotton[1] (born May 13, 1977) is an American politician who is the junior United States Senator from Arkansas. A member of the Republican Party, Cotton has served in the Senate since January 3, 2015.

In August 2013, Cotton announced his intentions to run for the United States Senate in a challenge against two-term Democratic Senator Mark Pryor. Cotton won in an unopposed Republican primary and prevailed in the general election, obtaining 56% of the vote to Pryor's 39%. At 38, he is currently the youngest U.S. Senator.

Early life and education

Cotton was born on May 13, 1977 in Dardanelle, Arkansas, the son of Avis (née Bryant) and Thomas Leonard Cotton, and grew up on the family farm.[2] Cotton graduated from Dardanelle High School in June 1995.[3] He attended Harvard College, where he wrote for the Harvard Crimson,[4] graduating in 1998.

In summer 1997, Cotton attended the Publius Fellowship program of the Claremont Institute, a conservative think tank.[5][6] He graduated from Harvard in 1998, three years after enrolling.[7]

In 1998, Cotton was accepted into a master's degree program at Claremont Graduate University. He left in 1999, saying that he found academic life "too sedentary", enrolling in Harvard Law School,[7] where he received his J.D. degree in June 2002.[3][8]

Career before Congress

Law

Immediately after finishing law school in 2002, Cotton served for a year as a clerk for Judge Jerry Edwin Smith at the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He then entered private practice, working at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher for a few months, and at Cooper & Kirk from 2003 to 2004.

Active duty military service

Initial training

On January 11, 2005, Cotton joined the active duty forces of the United States Army.[9][10] According to his recruiter, Lt. Col. Roger Jones, commander of Army Recruiting Battalion Houston, Cotton decided not to pursue a commission as an officer at the rank of Captain in the Judge Advocate General's Corps, United States Army, the typical rank and specialty for a person with his education and training. Instead, Cotton chose to enlist under the US Army's Officer/Warrant Officer Enlistment Program, Enlistment Option 9D[11] at the rank of Specialist or Corporal, with the guaranteed opportunity to Officer Candidate School and pursue a commission as a military officer.[12][13][14] Cotton's relationship with his enlisted basic training drill sergeant, Master Sergeant Gordon Norton, remained so good that years later Cotton would hire Norton to help with his political campaign.[15]

In March 2005, Cotton entered Officer Candidate School, and in June 2005 was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army.[12][13][14] He was initially stationed at Fort Benning, Georgia, where he entered a 14-week Officer’s Basic Course. After completing OBC in November 2005, Cotton attended the U.S. Army Airborne School as well as Ranger School and Air Assault School.[3]

Assignments

In May 2006, Cotton deployed to Baghdad as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom as a platoon leader with the 101st Airborne Division. In Iraq, he led a 41-man air assault infantry platoon in the 506th Infantry Regiment,[16] and planned and performed daily combat patrols.[17]

In December 2006, Cotton was promoted to 1st Lieutenant. He was assigned as a platoon leader for the 3rd US Infantry Regiment's The Old Guard at Arlington National Cemetery.[18]

In October 2008, Cotton deployed to eastern Afghanistan. He was stationed within the Regional Command East at its Gamberi Forward operating base (FOB) located in one of the command's 14 province locations, Laghman Province. The overall mission at Cotton's duty station – the Gamberi FOB from April 2008 to June 2009, during Operation Enduring Freedom IX – included military logistics, civil reconstruction engineering, government organization, and training from a Joint Task Force. The Joint Task Force at Gamberi FOB included Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan (GIRoA), the 101st Airborne Division, NATO, International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Interagency Partners, and CJTF-101/Regional Command East Forces. These joint forces sought to secure the citizenry governance, and to rebuild a sustainable economy in order to extend Afghanistan (GIRoA) authority as the legitimate government of the Afghan people.[19][20] Cotton said his assigned duty was as a military logistics officer of a Provincial Reconstruction Team, where he also helped plan logistical operations for counter-insurgency.[3][21] Cotton's 11-month deployment to Gamberi FOB in Laghan province ended when he returned from Afghanistan on July 20, 2009.

In September 2009, after one year of military training, two years performing memorial ceremonies, and 16 months deployed overseas (one tour each in Iraq and Afghanistan), Cotton was discharged from the Army.[10]

New York Times "espionage letter"

In June 2006, while stationed in Iraq, Cotton gained international public attention after he emailed a letter to The New York Times, criticizing the paper's publication of an article detailing a Bush administration secret program monitoring terrorists' finances. The newspaper ignored his letter, but it was published in Power Line, a prominent conservative blog which had been copied on the email.

In the letter, Cotton called for the journalists responsible for the newspaper article to be imprisoned for espionage. He asserted that the newspaper had "gravely endangered the lives of my soldiers and all other soldiers and innocent Iraqis here." The article was widely circulated online and reprinted in full in several newspapers.[22] The letter reached General Peter Schoomaker, Chief of Staff of the United States Army, who forwarded it via e-mail to all his generals, stating: "Attached for your information are words of wisdom from one of our great lieutenants in Iraq ..."[23] Cotton said in an interview that after meeting with his immediate commander, he was "nervous and worried all night long" about losing his position and even worse, possibly being court-martialed. When he finally met the battalion commander, he was simply told "Well, here’s a piece of advice: You’re new here. No one’s trying to infringe on your right to send a letter or whatnot. But next time, give your chain of command a heads-up."[3][23]

2009–2011

After his active duty service, Cotton did sporadic consulting work at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Company.[7][23][24] He then returned to the agricultural management of his family ranch.

In July 2010, Cotton re-enlisted in the United States Army Reserve.[25] Cotton's military record shows his final discharge from both Active duty and reserve duty was in May 2013.[17][25] Cotton's final military record brief states during his service in active and reserve U.S. Armed Forces he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal, and earned the following: Ranger Training Tab, Combat Infantryman Badge, Parachutist Badge, Air Assault Badge, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, and Iraq Campaign Medal.[25]

In 2009, Larry Arnn, the president of the Claremont Institute while Cotton had been in the Publius Fellowship program, introduced Cotton to Chris Chocola, a former Congressman and the president of Club for Growth, an influential Republican PAC. The blog Power Line also continued to promote Cotton. An attempt was made to draft Cotton for Arkansas’s 2010 Senate race, to run against incumbent Democratic U.S. Senator Blanche Lincoln.[7][23]

In 2011, when the Democratic congressman who had represented Cotton's home district retired after twelve years in office, Cotton ran for Congress.

U.S. House of Representatives

2012 election

Cotton was a candidate for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in Arkansas' 4th congressional district in the 2012 election, vacant as a result of Democratic U.S. Congressman Mike Ross' retirement.[26] Of the $2.2 million Cotton raised for that campaign, Club for Growth donors were responsible for $315,000 and were Cotton's largest supporters.[7][23]

In September 2011, Cotton faced criticism for his Harvard Crimson article, in which he questioned the value of the Internet as a teaching tool in the classroom.[27] Cotton has since said that he believes the Internet has matured significantly over the past decade and has become a "vital tool for education and daily life", unlike the Internet of 1998.[28]

Beth Anne Rankin, the 2010 Republican nominee, and John David Cowart, who carried the backing of the Louisiana businessman and philanthropist Edgar Cason, were the only other Republican candidates in the race after candidate Marcus Richmond dropped out in February 2012.[29] In the primary on May 22, Cotton won the Republican nomination, with 57% of the vote; Rankin received 38%.[30]

Cotton was endorsed by Senator John McCain.[31] Cotton was supported by and has close ties to both the Tea Party movement and the Republican establishment.[32][33][34][35]

In the general election on November 6, Cotton defeated State Senator Gene Jeffress, 59% to 37%. Cotton was the second Republican since Reconstruction to represent the 4th district.[36]

Tenure

On January 3, 2013, Cotton was sworn into the U.S. House by House Speaker John Boehner.[37] As a freshman, he has been considered a rising star in the Republican Party. Politico named him "most likely to succeed."[38][39]

Domestic issues

In January 2014, Cotton voted against the Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013, also known as the Farm Bill, a $1 trillion bill expanding crop insurance by $7 billion over the next decade and creating new subsidies for rice and peanut growers that would kick in when prices drop.[40][41]

In August 2013, Cotton voted against federal student loan legislation in Congress. Cotton said that his vote was based on his opposition to the nationalization of the student-loan business which he wrote had been a component of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Cotton stated, "I'm committed to bringing affordable higher education to every Arkansan and ending the federal-government monopoly on the student-lending business."[42]

Cotton has stated his support for the repeal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,[43] and has signed an amicus brief in support of Senator Ron Johnson's legal challenge against the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's ACA ruling.[44] In June 2013, Cotton voted in favor of the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, a bill to ban abortions that would take place 20 or more weeks after fertilization.[45]

In February 2013, Cotton voted for the Federal Pay Adjustment Act, which prevents a 0.5% pay increase for all federal workers from taking effect.[46]

In September 2014, Cotton said he would vote for the Arkansas Minimum Wage Initiative, a November 2014 statewide ballot initiative that calls for raising Arkansas' minimum wage from $6.25 an hour to $8.50 an hour by 2017.[47]

Foreign issues

In 2013 Cotton introduced legislative language to prohibit trade with relatives of individuals subject to U.S. sanctions against Iran. According to Cotton, this would include "a spouse and any relative to the third degree," such as, "parents, children, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great grandparents, grandkids, great grandkids." When Cotton's amendment came under harsh criticism regarding the constitutionality of the amendment, he withdrew it.[48][49]

Committee assignments

U.S. Senate

2014 election

On August 6, 2013 Cotton officially announced he would challenge incumbent U.S. Senator Mark Pryor.[50] Stuart Rothenberg of Roll Call called Pryor the most vulnerable Senator seeking re-election.[51] Cotton was endorsed by former Presidential nominee Mitt Romney,[52] the fiscally conservative Club for Growth PAC, Senator Marco Rubio, and the National Federation of Independent Business.[53][54][55][56][57] Romney campaigned for Cotton in the state.[58]

Cotton defeated Pryor in the general election, 56.5% to 39.5%.[59]

Presidential Politics

Although he has not stated anything about a potential run for the White House, he has been considered a viable candidate for the Republican nomination in 2020 or 2024.

Tenure

Cotton was sworn into office on January 6, 2015.

Letter to Iran's leaders

On or about March 9, 2015, Cotton wrote and sent a letter to the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran, signed by 47 of the Senate's 54 Republicans, attempting to cast doubt on the Obama administration's authority to engage in nuclear-proliferation negotiations with Iran.[60] The open letter was released in English as well as a poorly-translated Persian version (which "read like a middle schooler wrote it" according to Foreign Policy).[61] Within hours, commentators suggested that the letter prepared by Cotton constituted a violation of the Logan Act.[62][63] Questions also were raised as to whether it reflected a flawed interpretation of the Treaty Clause of the United States Constitution.[64]

President Barack Obama mocked the letter, referring to it as an "unusual coalition" with Iran's hard-liners as well as an interference with the then-ongoing negotiations of a comprehensive agreement on the Iranian nuclear program.[65] In addition, during a Vice News interview, President Barack Obama said, "I'm embarrassed for them. For them to address a letter to the Ayatollah – the Supreme Leader of Iran, who they claim is our mortal enemy – and their basic argument to them is: don't deal with our President, 'cause you can't trust him to follow through on an agreement... That's close to unprecedented."[66]

Iran's Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif, responded to the letter by saying "[the Senators'] letter in fact undermines the credibility of thousands of such mere executive agreements that have been or will be entered into by the US with various other governments". Zarif pointed out that the nuclear deal is not supposed to be an Iran–US deal, but an international one, saying that "change of administration does not in any way relieve the next administration from international obligations undertaken by its predecessor in a possible agreement about Iran's peaceful nuclear program". He continued, "I wish to enlighten the authors that if the next administration revokes any agreement with the stroke of a pen, as they boast, it will have simply committed a blatant violation of international law".[67]

Cotton on March 15, 2015 defended the letter he and fellow Senate Republicans sent to Iranian leaders about their nuclear negotiations with the United States, amid criticism that it undermined the president's efforts. "It's so important we communicated this message straight to Iran," he told CBS News' Face the Nation "No regrets at all," and "they already control Tehran, increasingly they control Damascus and Beirut and Baghdad and now Sana'a as well."[68][69][70] He continued to defend his action in an interview with MSNBC by saying, "There are nothing but hardliners in Iran. They've been killing Americans for 35 years. They kill hundreds of troops in Iraq. Now they control five capitals in the Middle East. There're nothing but hardliners in Tehran and if they do all those things without a nuclear weapon, imagine what they'll do with a nuclear weapon."[71]

Military action against Iran

Cotton accused Obama of holding up a "false choice" between his framework deal on Iran's nuclear program and war. He also seemed to diminish what military action against Iran would entail.[72] Cotton also said: "the president is trying to make you think it would be 150,000 heavy mechanized troops on the ground in the Middle East again as we saw in Iraq. That's simply not the case... Several days' air and naval bombing against Iraq's weapons of mass destruction facilities for exactly the same kind of behavior. For interfering with weapons inspectors and for disobeying Security Council resolutions."[73]

Iran side deals

On July 21, 2015, Cotton and Mike Pompeo announced the existence of side agreements between Iran and the IAEA on procedures for inspection and verification of Iran's nuclear activities under the Iran nuclear deal. These side deals have since become a flashpoint in the debate over the Iran deal, in part because their contents have not been publicly disclosed. Cotton described the side deals as "secret", though the Obama Administration disputed this, noting that the IAEA always has a duty of confidentiality.[74][75][76]

Committee assignments

Support from Israel lobby

Cotton has been receiving heavy support from Israel lobby in the US for his opposition to Iran nuclear deal and for his hawkish stance towards Iran. A number of pro-Israel American billionaires have contributed millions of dollars to Cotton., William Kristol's The Emergency Committee for Israel spent $960,000 to support Mr. Cotton.[77]

Personal life

Cotton married attorney Anna Peckham in 2014.[78] Their first child, a boy, was born on April 27, 2015.[79]

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