Bills About Immigration Sponsored by Tom Cotton (R-Ark.)

Sen. Cotton sponsored 8 bills about immigration in the 115th Congress (2017-18).

Introduced Number Title Cosponsors Cosponsor Party Latest Action
Sept. 21, 2020 S.4631 A bill to temporarily suspend the diversity visa program, to designate residents of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region as Priority 2 refugees of special humanitarian concern, to provide special visas to highly-qualified residents of Hong Kong, and for other purposes. 0 Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Dec. 12, 2019 S.3031 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to add membership in a significant transnational criminal organization to the list of grounds of inadmissibility and to prohibit the provision of material support or resources to such organizations. 10
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
May 14, 2019 S.1451 A bill to prohibit the issuance of F or J visas to researchers affiliated with the Chinese People's Liberation Army. 5
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
April 10, 2019 S.1103 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based immigration points system, to focus on family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to set a limit on the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, and for other purposes. 4
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb. 28, 2019 S.599 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act with respect to aliens associated with criminal gangs, and for other purposes. 9
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Aug. 2, 2017 S.1720 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to establish a skills-based immigration points system, to focus family-sponsored immigration on spouses and minor children, to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to set a limit on the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, and for other purposes. 2
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Feb. 13, 2017 S.354 A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to eliminate the Diversity Visa Program, to limit the President's discretion in setting the number of refugees admitted annually to the United States, to reduce the number of family-sponsored immigrants, to create a new nonimmigrant classification for the parents of adult United States citizens, and for other purposes. 1
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
March 17, 2016 S.2708 A bill to provide for the admission to the United States of up to 10,000 Syrian religious minorities as refugees of special humanitarian concern in each of the fiscal years 2016 through 2020. 2
All Republicans
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. (Sponsor introductory remarks on measure: CR S1594-1596)
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