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
Money and votes
2025–26 cycle · through Sep 30, 2026Method84 PACs of the 187 that gave
Of the 187 PACs that gave to Cotton and have a lobbying organization behind them, 84 belong to organizations that lobbied on bills he faced a vote on, cosponsored or sponsored.
45% · Senate median: 41%
97 bills
Those PACs’ organizations lobbied on 97 bills. Cotton voted Yea on 14, Nay on 1, did not vote on 2, and sponsored or cosponsored 80 with no recorded vote.
$405K of $1.3M
Those 84 PACs gave Cotton $405K, 30% of all the PAC money he received.
Senate median: 29%
PAC money only. Individuals and transfers bring the campaign’s total to $7.1M.
A filing shows that an organization lobbied on a bill, not which side it took. The PAC gives the money; the organization behind it does the lobbying.
Top three bills by gifts from PACs whose organizations lobbied
Top 3 of 112 bills by gifts from PACs whose organizations lobbied, 15 broad must-pass bills among them
Who funds Cotton 265 PACs
- Young Victory CommitteeParty committee · funds 19 other members100% to Republicans
- Altria GroupCorporate PAC · funds 154 other members77% to Republicans
- American Bankers AssociationTrade association PAC · funds 342 other members62% to Republicans
All 112 bills with each PAC’s gift and filing, the amounts and lobbying spend of the top PACs, money by cycle Pro
Free account See ProCampaign totals from Cotton’s own reports
FEC H2AR04083 · FEC S4AR00103Gifts from the PACs’ FEC reports through Sep 30, 2026; lobbying from LDA filings through Q3 2026; votes from Voteview. Broad must-pass bills sort below narrow ones and do not set the money-bar scale.
Broad must-pass bills are left out of the figures above; 55 more PACs belong to organizations that lobbied only on those.
78 of Cotton’s PACs have no federal lobbying on record or no organization Oathstar could match.
Filings lag, so recent gifts can take weeks to appear. Cotton’s leadership PAC (Republican Majority Fund, Republican Majority Fund: State and Local) is reported separately.