Press Releases

WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the below statement following President Trump’s response to the chemical weapons attack on the Syrian people.   “The use of chemical weapons, by any nation, in any circumstance, will not be tolerated. I support the President’s strong response to the Assad regime’s actions. Syria must be held… Read more »

WASHINGTON— Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the below statement following today’s House vote on H.J. Res. 2, proposing a balanced budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Womack voted in favor of the measure, which, if ratified by the states, would ultimately lead to a constitutional amendment ensuring that Congress not spend more than it receives each… Read more »

FORT SMITH, Ark. – Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today announced that Luke Barber, a member of the University of Arkansas – Fort Smith (UAFS) class of 2020, has been selected to serve as the 2018 John Paul Hammerschmidt (JPH) Fellow. The JPH Fellowship was established in 2013 in conjunction with UAFS and is named for former Arkansas Representative John Paul Hammerschmidt… Read more »

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — University of Arkansas Chancellor Joseph Steinmetz, U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), and U.S. Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today jointly announced an additional $10 million in funding to dismantle the Southwest Experimental Fast Oxide Reactor (SEFOR) in southern Washington County, Arkansas.  SEFOR was decommissioned as a 20-megawat sodium-cooled nuclear test… Read more »

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) joined state and local community leaders in welcoming the Director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., to the Third District of Arkansas on Tuesday, April 3, 2018. Dr. Collins was sworn in as the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) on August 17, 2009, and continues to serve as… Read more »

FORT SMITH, Ark. — U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR) and Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) joined state and local military and community leaders in welcoming U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson to the Third District of Arkansas on Monday, March 26, 2018. Secretary Wilson was sworn in as the 24th Secretary of the Air Force on May 16, 2017, and visited the Natural State at the… Read more »

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senators John Boozman (R-AR) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) and U.S. Representatives Rick Crawford (AR-01), French Hill (AR-02), Steve Womack (AR-03), and Bruce Westerman (AR-04) released the following joint statement on the termination of the Department of Energy’s (DOE) partnership with Clean Line Energy Partners for development of the Plains and Eastern Clean Line… Read more »

WASHINGTON— Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the following statement after the passage of the House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 1625 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, which provides funding for the federal government for the remainder of fiscal year 2018. “By passing this omnibus appropriations bill, we are finally fulfilling our duty for fiscal year 2018 and… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement after the House passed H.R. 5247, the Trickett Wendler, Frank Mongiello, Jordan McLinn, and Matthew Bellina Right to Try Act of 2018, which improves access to experimental medications for terminally ill patients: "By allowing terminally ill patients who have exhausted all options to try experimental -… Read more »

WASHINGTON — Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement in support of the Remote Transaction Parity Act (RTPA) complementary preempting the Supreme Court’s ruling on Wayfair v. South Dakota: “In its 1992 Quill decision, the Supreme Court said that Congress is ‘better qualified to resolve’ e-fairness. Having championed this issue since my election to Congress,… Read more »