Category: Tom cotton

Senator Cotton Delays Vote on Biden’s Pick for Powerful China Job at Commerce

October 16, 2021
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WASHINGTON—Republican Senator Tom Cotton is holding up a vote to confirm Alan Estevez as the U.S. Commerce Department’s undersecretary for industry and security until he gets answers to difficult questions about technology exports to China. In a letter dated Oct. 14 and seen by Reuters, Cotton asks Estevez to commit to strengthening U.S. restrictions on…

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Lawmakers Urge Biden to Stand up for Taiwan in Face of Rising Chinese Aggression

October 7, 2021
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Some Republican lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to reaffirm U.S. support for Taiwan amid escalating Chinese military provocations. Tensions have ratcheted up over the past week, as a total of 150 military planes flew into the air defense zone around Taiwan, the democratic island Beijing has threatened to lay claim, by force if…

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Lawmakers Urge Biden to Stand Up for Taiwan Amid Rising Chinese Aggression

October 7, 2021
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Some Republican lawmakers are calling on President Joe Biden to reaffirm U.S. support for Taiwan amid escalating Chinese military provocations. Tensions have ratcheted up over the past week, as China has sent a total of 150 military planes into the air defense zone around Taiwan, the democratically governed island that Beijing views as a breakaway province…

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Navy Chief Defends Recommending Sailors Read ‘Anti-Racist’ Book

June 23, 2021
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The high-level U.S. Navy officer on Tuesday defended including a so-called anti-racist book on his recommended reading list. Adm. Mike Gilday, chief of naval operations, said he does not agree with everything in the book, “How to Be an Antiracist” by Ibram Kendi, but believed in exposing his sailors to the ideology outlined in it….

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Senators Introduce Bill To Protect US Colleges From CCP Influence

June 18, 2021
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A group of Republican senators on Thursday introduced new legislation that would require U.S. colleges to disclose their financial ties with the CCP.

CCP May Target US Olympians for DNA Collection, Sen. Cotton Warns

June 15, 2021
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) warned President Joe Biden on June 14 that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will likely attempt to collect DNA samples from American athletes competing in the 2020 Beijing Olympics. In a letter (pdf) to the president, Cotton wrote that the CCP considers “DNA collection a vital intelligence-gathering objective” and implored the…

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GOP Lawmakers Unveil Bill to Defund 1619 Project in Public Schools

June 15, 2021
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A group of Republican lawmakers on Monday unveiled legislation that would block federal funds for public schools from being used to teach the controversial “1619 Project” published by the New York Times.

Military Whistleblower Says Large Black Lives Matter Flag Was Hung at US Naval Base in Africa

June 14, 2021
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An alleged whistleblower who submitted a comment to Sen. Tom Cotton’s (R-Ark.) and Rep. Dan Crenshaw’s (R-Texas) offices said that a large Black Lives Matter flag was flown at a military installation in Africa last year, which may have flouted then-Pentagon policy. The unnamed service member said that while deployed in a combat zone in…

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Lockheed Martin Sent Over 1,000 Top Employees to ‘White Male Privilege’ Training, CEO Says

June 9, 2021
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Lockheed Martin, the aerospace and defense giant known for developing F-35 fighter jets, recently admitted that it has put more than a thousand top employees through training sessions to learn about privileges they supposedly have as white straight males. Such training sessions, including a three-day “White Men’s Caucus” last June attended by 13 executive-level employees,…

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Sen. Cotton Demands Answers From Lockheed Martin Over Reported ‘White Men’s Caucus’ Training

June 3, 2021
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Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) is demanding answers from aerospace and defense giant Lockheed Martin over reports that it sent its executive-level employees to learn about privileges they supposedly have as white straight males.