Tom Cotton Claims

Require banks and credit unions to verify that anyone opening a new account is a U.S. citizen, permanent resident, or legally present on a valid visa.

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Make it a federal crime for anyone in the country illegally to open or maintain a bank or credit union account at a covered institution.

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Replenish the Strategic Petroleum Reserve by using revenue collected from clean electricity tax credits.

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Preempt state climate mandates that affect energy infrastructure planning or increase electricity costs to safeguard grid reliability and lower energy prices.

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Condition federal transportation funding to states on their compliance with federal immigration laws.

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Make all federally acquired lands eligible for hardrock mineral leasing under the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands.

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List hardrock minerals as leasable deposits alongside coal, phosphate, oil, gas, gilsonite, and sulfur under the Mineral Leasing Act for Acquired Lands.

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Impose mandatory minimum prison sentences for noncitizens convicted of fraud.

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Provide for automatic and expedited deportation for any noncitizens convicted of fraud.

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Expand denaturalization grounds to include welfare fraud post-citizenship.

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Create a federal Fraud Recovery Task Force to pursue civil suits, with interest on clawed-back funds and interstate cooperation for state-to-state and international schemes.

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Eliminate outdated federal regulations to enable manufacturers, data centers, and other energy-intensive industries to build customized, reliable, and resilient off-grid electricity systems without impacting existing power grids.

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Enforce stricter standards for asylum seekers by closing loopholes in the current asylum process.

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End federal benefits (SNAP, Medicaid, housing assistance, student financial aid, etc.) for anyone who is not a U.S. citizen.

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Allow the Secretary of Homeland Security to strip citizenship from any naturalized person who joins a riot, commits violent or destructive protests, or tries to overthrow or disrupt America’s constitutional order.

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Require a full review of every Afghan let in as a refugee, parolee, or special visa holder from January 20, 2021, until now.

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Automatically end Temporary Protected Status for any national if the Secretary of Homeland Security determines their homeland is safe enough to return to, or the group receiving TPS has a crime rate above a certain threshold.

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Require all testing related to the issuance or renewal of a commercial driver’s license (CDL), including non-domiciled CDLs, to be conducted only in English.

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Empower the Secretary of Transportation to suspend or revoke a state’s authority to issue non-domiciled CDLs if found non-compliant with federal standards.

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Require individuals to hold a standard driver’s license for one year before obtaining a commercial driver’s license (CDL).

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Eliminate exemptions to the H-1B visa cap for universities, research institutions, and non-profits, including for individuals holding a master's degree or higher from a U.S. institution.

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Amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to make children of illegal immigrants, terrorists, and foreign spies ineligible for birthright citizenship.

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Require the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to include water quality certification in environmental reviews of interstate natural gas pipelines and to act on certification requests within 90 days.

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Update the judicial-review process for challenges to certain natural gas pipeline projects.

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Designate the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) as the sole lead federal agency for interstate natural gas pipeline projects and streamline permitting by eliminating duplicative federal reviews and regulatory red tape.

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Require tracking of foreign student and faculty visa holders to safeguard sensitive research at American universities.

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Direct the FDA and HHS to ensure drugs in the U.S. supply chain are not made by companies affiliated with the Chinese Communist Party.

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Withhold certain non-law-enforcement federal grant funds from sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration authorities.

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Require FERC and the Electric Reliability Organization to review other federal agencies' proposed regulations that could affect bulk-power system reliability before those agencies may finalize them.

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Raise the federal minimum wage to $11 by 2028 and then index it to inflation.

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Mandate E-Verify for all employers.

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Revoke existing visas from terrorists’ close family members and prohibit them from receiving any future U.S. visas.

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Create a federal offense and tougher penalties for foreign nationals from countries of concern who photograph, video, or track high-value U.S. military assets and strategic installations, including mandatory minimum prison time and visa revocation/removal for covered offenders.

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Give critical infrastructure sites legal authority to take down unauthorized drones and establish a grant program to help them buy, install, and operate approved counter-drone technology.

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Increase penalties on importers and companies that bring illegal vapes into the United States, including Chinese vapes.

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Ask the FDA and CISA to review Chinese-made medical devices that were cleared prior to March 29, 2023.

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Prepare legislation to further codify sanctions authorities against entities that assist Iran in illegally blocking the Strait of Hormuz.

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Impose mandatory minimum prison sentences for the smuggling or attempted smuggling of biological agents or toxins, including a 20-year minimum for conspiracy to smuggle them and a 5-year minimum for false statements tied to such smuggling.

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Require covered Chinese medical-device manufacturers to provide cybersecurity and data-location information, including software bills of materials and patient-data server locations, for federal review.

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Require recalls and immediate distribution stoppages for covered Chinese-made medical devices found to pose cybersecurity risks.

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Require recalls and immediate distribution stoppages for covered Chinese-made medical devices if the manufacturer fails to provide requested cybersecurity-review information within 180 days.

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Require HHS and CISA to report to Congress on U.S. medical-device cybersecurity preparedness, Chinese manufacturers' market share and data security practices, and recommendations to improve cyber preparedness.

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Hold a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing for Jay Clayton's nomination to be Director of National Intelligence in the weeks ahead.

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Allow the Department of Homeland Security to detain noncitizens in removal proceedings for any period without limitation until they are subject to a final order of removal, subject to limited bond provisions.

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Require DHS to keep certain criminal or security-related noncitizens in custody when they are encountered after release and bar bond eligibility for those subject to mandatory detention.

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Suspend the removal period and allow DHS detention when a noncitizen obstructs removal, receives a stay of removal, or is transferred to another government agency, with mandatory detention for covered criminal or security categories.

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Authorize DHS to continue detaining ordered-removed noncitizens beyond the removal period for 90 days and longer in specified cases, including likely removal, noncooperation, contagious disease, national security risk, or public-safety risk.

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Establish a DHS administrative review process to decide whether cooperative noncitizens with final removal orders who are not otherwise subject to mandatory detention should remain detained or be released on conditions.

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Allow DHS to redetain noncitizens subject to final removal orders if removal becomes likely, release conditions are violated, or DHS determines they qualify for continued detention.

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Ask the Treasury Department to confirm that developing security software for industrial control systems qualifies as research under section 41 of the tax code.

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Ask the Treasury Department to establish a safe harbor treating cybersecurity monitoring contracts with publicly owned utilities as services rather than long-term equipment leases.

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Ask the Treasury Department to extend the existing utility exception in Treasury Regulation section 1.168(k)-2(b)(2)(ii)(F) to service providers as well as lessors.

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Ask the Secretary of the Interior to coordinate an administration-wide effort to use every lawful emergency authority and expedited procedure available to accelerate domestic oil and natural gas development.

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Ask the Interior-led energy council to consider temporary royalty, rental, lease-extension, suspension, or other relief under existing law to incentivize additional production from existing federal leases.

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