Tom Cotton was
elected to the U.S. Senate from Arkansas in 2014, following one term in
the U.S. House of Representatives. He serves on the Senate Banking
Committee, the Senate Intelligence Committee, and the Senate Armed
Services Committee. A graduate of Harvard College, he studied government
at the Claremont Graduate School and received his J.D. from Harvard Law
School in 2002. In 2005, he was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the
U.S. Army, rose to 1st Lieutenant, and served deployments in Iraq with
the 101st Airborne and in Afghanistan with a Provincial Reconstruction
Team. His military decorations include the Bronze Star Medal, Combat
Infantry Badge, and Ranger Tab.
The
following is adapted from a speech delivered on September 18, 2017, in
Washington, D.C., at Hillsdale College’s Eighth Annual Constitution Day
Celebration.
Last year, for
the first time in our nation’s history, the American people elected as
president someone with no high government experience—not a senator, not a
congressman, not a governor, not a cabinet secretary, not a general.
They did this, I believe, because they’ve lost faith in both the
competence and the intentions of our governing class—of both parties!
Government now takes nearly half of every dollar we earn and bosses us
around in every aspect of life, yet can’t deliver basic services well.
Our working class—the “forgotten man,” to use the phrase favored by
Ronald Reagan and FDR—has seen its wages stagnate, while the four
richest counties in America are inside the Washington Beltway. The kids
of the working class are those who chiefly fight our seemingly endless
wars and police our streets, only to come in for criticism too often
from the very elite who sleep under the blanket of security they
provide. . . . continue reading
Tom Cotton 
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