Tom Cotton

Of the 118 laws passed since January 3, 2025, 38 came to a recorded vote in the Senate while Cotton is a member. The rest passed the Senate by voice vote or without objection, which records no individual votes.

Cotton votes Yes on the Laken Riley Act on immigration detention; the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 2025 tax and spending law; the HALT Fentanyl Act; the Rescissions Act of 2025, which cancelled about $9 billion in approved spending; the defense policy law for fiscal year 2026; the Secure America Act, a 2026 budget law; the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act; and the Russia and Iran sanctions law.

On funding the government, Cotton votes Yes on the March 2025 full-year funding law; the November 2025 law that ended the 43-day shutdown; the January 2026 funding law for science, energy, Interior and the EPA; the February 2026 funding law for a further group of agencies; and the September 2026 funding extension.

Congress cancelled 24 federal rules by recorded vote in the Senate in that time. Cotton votes to cancel 22 and against cancelling 0, and did not vote on 2. The rules Cotton votes to cancel come from: Interior: Bureau of Land Management (6), Environmental Protection Agency (6), Energy (4), Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (2), District of Columbia government (1), Interior: National Park Service (1), Treasury: Internal Revenue Service (1) and Interior: Ocean Energy Management (1).

Cotton votes the same way as most Senate Republicans on all 35 of these Yes and No votes.

Cotton did not vote on the law that cancels a land agency plan for central Alaska that set aside large areas for conservation and limited development; the GENIUS Act on stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to the dollar); and the law that cancels a bank regulator's rule that changed how proposed bank mergers are reviewed, restoring the earlier, faster process.