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Chairman — Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Tom Cotton is a Republican senator from Arkansas who has served in the Senate since 2015 after one term in the House. His official Senate biography records prior Army infantry service, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and legal and private-sector work before Congress.
Profile updated Aug 16, 2026
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Tom Cotton is a Republican senator from Arkansas who has served in the Senate since 2015 after one term in the House. His official Senate biography records prior Army infantry service, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and legal and private-sector work before Congress.
Open biography & office record ↓Tom Cotton is a Republican senator from Arkansas who has served in the Senate since 2015 after one term in the House. His official Senate biography records prior Army infantry service, including deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and legal and private-sector work before Congress.
Cotton chairs the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and also serves as chair of the Senate Republican Conference. The Intelligence Committee’s current site identifies Mark Warner as vice chairman and lists the committee’s 2026 intelligence-authorization activity.
Cotton’s July 2026 legislative announcements include the Fiscal Sponsorship Transparency Act, a tax-disclosure and conduit-arrangement proposal. This entry records the proposal and its stated mechanics without adopting the political characterizations in the sponsoring office’s press release.
Cotton announced the bill on July 23, 2026. His official office described disclosure requirements for certain fiscal-sponsorship arrangements and tax consequences for specified conduit transactions; this review records the proposal without treating the office’s advocacy language as an established factual finding.