Tom Cotton

RepublicanState R+15119th CongressOn the ballot 2026

Typical swing score28#87 of 100 senators across tracked bills

Contact Tom Cotton’s office

Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators dataset

Call office 202-224-2353 Send a message

Washington, D.C. office

326 Russell Senate Office Building Washington DC 20510

cotton.senate.gov

Model

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Directional: count only breaks toward the other party Why do scores change?

Signals to watch

What in this member’s state, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.

Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal

Weak
Backs 1 Democratic-led tracked billSponsor or active cosponsor of 1 of the 865 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: S. 315.

Keeps them with Republicans · 3 signals

Medium
Votes with Senate RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.577 (party median +0.558; rank 29 of 53 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 81 (avg 88); LCV 3 (avg 3).
Medium
Safe Republican state: Arkansas is R+15Arkansas has a partisan lean of R+15 (25% 2020 / 75% 2024 presidential two-party vote vs. the nation). Little electoral pressure to break with the party.
Weak

Term and election

From the congress-legislators dataset

On the ballot 2026

Current term: January 3, 2021 – January 3, 2027
Senate class: Class 2
Seniority: Junior senator
Next election: November 3, 2026
Years in office: 13.8 years

Committees

Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3

Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceChairman
Majority · 1st in seniority
Joint Economic Committee
Majority · 2nd in seniority
Senate Committee on Armed Services
Majority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on Airland
- Subcommittee on Strategic Forces

Voting ideology

first dimension, from Voteview

R median

D median

Cotton

← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →

Their score of +0.577 is 0.02 to the right of the Senate Republican median (+0.558).

Advocacy scorecards

Their rating vs. the Senate Republican average

119th Congress81
Senate Republican average: 88 (n=53)

Swing score by bill

swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to it

Showing 51–100 of 845 tracked bills, best swing first

Swing score for Tom Cotton on each tracked bill
Bill	Their role	Swing score ·
H.R. 164POWER Act of 2025Summary on Congress.gov	No position yet	29	Entrenched
H.R. 165Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site ActSummary on Congress.gov