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Tom Cotton

U.S. Senator · Arkansas · Republican · Chair, Select Committee on Intelligence

From public records: votes from Voteview, bills from congress.gov, money from FEC filings · votes updated Nov 5, 2026 · How we measure

Effectiveness, 119th Congress so far

How it’s measured
1.24· expected 1.48

Meets expectations

Rank 24 of 100 in the Senate · expected = average of 21 majority-party committee chairs

How far Cotton’s own bills got, weighted by substance. The average member scores 1.00.

  1. Introduced 93
  2. Action in committee 4
  3. Action beyond committee 3
  4. Passed chamber 1
  5. Became law 1

93 bills and joint resolutions sponsored: 1 significant (got a roll call vote), 92 substantive, 0 commemorative. Compare the Senate

Became law (1)

1 technical

Scope tags come from an AI reading of each bill where available, otherwise from its title and policy area. They don’t change the score. How scope is tagged

How Cotton’s ratings compare with every senator

Ratings, 119th Congress

Scores run 0–100 and always sit next to a median. Each tick is one senator; the ringed marker is Cotton.

Cotton in plain answers: party votes, bipartisanship, who votes alike

98/ 100

Chamber median 98 · 14 missed of 915

Voted on 901 of 915 roll calls; missed 14. Higher than 62% of senators.

85%100%

Party loyalty

How it’s measured
100/ 100

Senate R median 100 · Rank 20 of 53

Sided with the Republican majority on 828 votes that split the parties. Higher than 75% of senators.

75%100%
9/ 100

Chamber median 9 · +0

Average agreement with members of the other party on contested votes. Higher than 58% of senators.

0%30%
+0.58

Republican middle 80%: 0.38 to 0.78

Left–right position from roll-call similarity (DW-NOMINATE, Voteview), from −1 to +1. Members who vote alike sit near each other.

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Bills, 119th Congress

Sponsored 97 (median 61) · cosponsored 195 (median 307.5), 102 as an original cosponsor (signed on the day the bill was introduced). Medians are for all voting members of the Senate. From congress.gov.

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Cosponsored