Tom Cotton
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) presents a relatively clean financial-accountability profile based on public records. He reports no active individual-stock trading; congressional trade trackers (MarketBeat, Quiver) show essentially no STOCK Act transaction activity, and his disclosed assets skew toward mutual/index funds, with reported net worth that has been modest or even negative in some years due to a mortgage. His donor base concentrates in defense, financial services, and pro-Israel sectors aligned with his Armed Services and Intelligence Committee roles—a correlation worth noting but not proof of pay-to-play. No FEC complaints, campaign personal-use findings, or family-lobbying scandals surfaced in public records, and his vote-attendance record (about 2% missed, better than the Senate median) is strong; several components score low or insufficient-data because absence of wrongdoing is not penalized.
Public record
- In Congress since
- 2013
- Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (Chairman)
Armed Services
Energy and Natural Resources
Joint Economic Committee - Missed votes, 119th Congress
- 1.5% (14 of 915; median member 1.9%)
- Campaign money, 2025–26 cycle
- $6.2M raised · 18% from PACs & committees · $9.9M cash on hand FEC ↗
The stock-trading ban
H.R. 7008 bans new stock purchases by members, spouses and dependents; it doesn't force sales of existing holdings. The Senate vote was on the version paired with the SAVE Act, which is why no Democrat voted yes. Full breakdown →
Disclosed stock trades
No periodic transaction reports on file since 2024. That's the norm: most members don't trade individual stocks, or hold them in blind trusts and diversified funds.
Amounts are the ranges members must report, not exact values. The STOCK Act requires a report within 45 days of a trade; "late" counts days past that deadline, measured to the filing date.
How the score breaks down
Sources behind this score: 3 data aggregator · 4 reference database · 2 news reporting. Score = weighted average of the components that have data; the 1 without sourced evidence are excluded, never counted against the member. Methodology →
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