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'Pathetic': Romney, Cotton Condemned for Offering $10 Minimum Wage With Added Xenophobic Touch

"This is an anti-immigrant, low-wage bill masquerading as an attempt to help American workers."

Jake Johnson, staff writer · Feb 23, 2021

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) talks to reporters before returning to the Senate Chamber during the fifth day of former President Donald Trump's impeachment trial at the U.S. Capitol on February 13, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) questions Alejandro Mayorkas, nominee to be Secretary of Homeland Security, during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill on January 19, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Cotton-Romney Effort to Tie Minimum Wage Hike to Undocumented Workers Denounced as 'Transparently Cynical Ploy'

Andrea Germanos, staff writer · Feb 17, 2021

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) enters a Senators Only elevator before attending the Weekly Senate Policy Luncheon on June 25, 2019 on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (Photo: Tom Brenner/Getty Images)

Remind Me, What Was the Civil War About, Anyway?

Mike Lofgren · Aug 7, 2020

The New York Times Opinion Desk Has a Neoconservative Problem

Alex Kane · Jun 6, 2020

Pelosi's Coronavirus Compromise Has Left Even Tom Cotton Saying This Bill 'Doesn't Go Far Enough and Fast Enough'

Julia Conley, staff writer · Mar 16, 2020

"Mike Pompeo is just an unqualified nebbish who’ll be promoted, if he is, because he climbed on board the Trump Train when everybody else was running away from it."

What Tom Cotton Would Mean for the CIA

It's a terrifying, dangerous prospect.

Charles P. Pierce · Dec 1, 2017

"Rex Is Here," Trump Says Vaguely After Reporting of Plan for Tillerson's Exit

Trump White House reportedly has a plan to get rid of his Secretary of State, with Mike Pompeo as replacement and hawkish Republican Senator Tom Cotton nominated to direct CIA

Jon Queally, staff writer · Nov 30, 2017

The Real Story Behind the Republicans’ Iran Letter

The real story is how enforcers of Likudist policy on Iran used a young Republican politician to try to provoke a breakdown in nuclear talks

Gareth Porter · Mar 13, 2015

Tom Cotton is the Worst Bully in the Senate – Here Are 10 Reasons Why

Medea Benjamin · Mar 12, 2015