Cotton made the comment while defending his bill to ban the teaching of the New York Times’ ‘1619 project’ — about the origins of slavery in the United States — from being taught in schools.

But the Republican senator has previously argued the government shouldn’t interfere with state and local decisions on education.

Tom Cotton says ‘insurrectionists’ in Portland, Oregon, need to be stopped by federal enforcement.

The bill would create a new state of Washington, Douglass Commonwealth, in honor of Maryland-born Frederick Douglass.

The Arkansas senator also argued that Washington, D.C., a majority-minority city, was not diverse in ‘interest’ or financially independent.

Trump and GOP lawmakers are up in arms after the court upheld a program that protects undocumented immigrants and said employers can’t discriminate against LGBT employees.

Cotton’s latest ad, which accuses Joe Biden of weakness on China, also mocks the former vice president’s stutter.

The Arkansas Republican called for the military to occupy American cities.

Republicans have been quick to condemn antifa as chaos erupts at various protests across the country, despite scant evidence to support their claims.

Donald Trump has also pushed for labeling protesters as domestic terrorists.

All of these politicians come from states that take more federal taxes than they pay in.

Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) has been a leader in his party’s ‘blame China’ pandemic strategy.

New York is one of 10 states that pay more in federal taxes than they receive in funding. Yet Senate Republicans don’t think they deserve help with their coronavirus costs.

Trump actually did address coronavirus during impeachment, but he didn’t take it seriously.

The White House said Democrats’ bill to protect poor and low-income workers impacted by coronavirus closures ‘falls short.’

Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton keeps repeating a widely debunked conspiracy about the virus’ origins.

Republicans still want you to think Trump’s idea to buy Greenland is great.

This isn’t the first time the Republican senator has pushed an ‘absurd’ foreign policy idea.

Instead of draining the swamp, Trump’s making money off it.

Sen. Tom Cotton believes men like him, not women and their doctors, should control women’s health care.

Trump is hurting farmers across America with his trade war — and the GOP is letting him.

Tom Cotton thinks farmers going bankrupt thanks to Trump’s trade war have it pretty good compared to soldiers.

From locking their office doors to sending out cease-and-desist letters, Republicans really don’t want to hear from the people they represent.