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Tom Cotton

Tom Cotton

Senator· ARRSenate● In officeOn the ballot in 2026
Before officeLawyer · Business consultant · Farmer · Jurist
File · Money Read

What the money shows

Tom Cotton has an estimated net worth of -$2.4M. The 2026 campaign raised $4.9M. Outside groups had $590,800 spent for Tom Cotton. Tom Cotton sits on Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and Joint Economic Committee.

Sources: House disclosures · Senate disclosures · FEC

Est. net worth
−$2.4M
−$4.7M – −$30K
Raised (last cycle)
$4.9M
FEC · cycle 2026
Years in role
11
Senator since 2015 · 13y in office
Net-worth filings
7
−$2.8M since 2019
File — Balance

Bills weighed against funded sectors

Each pan counts bills. Excluded bills are shown beside the scale when the vote or bill direction is unclear.

Ideological / Leadership

$651K in corporate money from ideological / leadership · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against ideological / leadership
0 bills
with ideological / leadership
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Other

$243K in corporate money from other · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against other
0 bills
with other
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Banking & Financial

$194K in corporate money from banking · 13 roll calls · 9 bills

against banking
0 bills
with banking
3 bills
6 excluded · not weighed

Party Committee

$62K in corporate money from party committee · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against party committee
0 bills
with party committee
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Law & Lobbying

$40K in corporate money from law · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against law
0 bills
with law
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Tech & Telecom

$16K in corporate money from tech · 8 roll calls · 2 bills

against tech
0 bills
with tech
1 bill
1 excluded · not weighed

Agriculture

$10K in corporate money from agriculture · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against agriculture
0 bills
with agriculture
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Health & Pharma

$10K in corporate money from health · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against health
0 bills
with health
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Retail & Consumer

$10K in corporate money from retail · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against retail
0 bills
with retail
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

Defense & Aerospace

$6K in corporate money from defense · 1 roll calls · 1 bills

against defense
0 bills
with defense
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

1 excluded · not weighed

Insurance

$5K in corporate money from insurance · 0 roll calls · 0 bills

against insurance
0 bills
with insurance
0 bills
No scored votes

No bill this cycle clearly names a funded sector as beneficiary.

File A — Net Worth

Net worth over time

Estimated from financial disclosures. The band shows the disclosed range; the line is the midpoint estimate.

Why negative? Financial disclosures require officials to report mortgages and loans as liabilities, but exclude personal residences and other non-income-producing assets. Someone whose main asset is their home can show a negative disclosednet worth in some years — it doesn’t necessarily mean they’re in debt. See methodology.
midpoint disclosed range govt salary
source filing →
File C — Service

Term history

  1. SenatorARR
    20212027 · 6 yrs
  2. SenatorARRHouseSenate
    20152021 · 6 yrs
  3. RepresentativeAR-4R
    20132015 · 2 yrs
File D — Benchmark

If they'd just invested 20%

A disciplined-saver benchmark: 20% of each year's government salary, invested at an assumed 10%/yr return — versus actual disclosed net worth.

hypothetical retirement actual net worth salary

Hypothetical, not actual savings — see methodology.