Today, Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-1), Tim Griffin (AR-2), Steve Womack (AR-3), and Tom Cotton (AR-4) introduced the Sensible School Lunch Act in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation will provide school districts with greater flexibility in implementing new rules for the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program. The House bill is a companion to bipartisan legislation introduced in the U.S. Senate by Senators John Hoeven (R-ND) and Mark Pryor (D-AR). The School N... Read more

Congressman Steve Womack is currently seeking hard-working college students to serve as interns in his Washington, D.C. office, as well as his district offices in Rogers, Fort Smith, and Harrison, for the following sessions: Summer Session I: May 28, 2013 - June 28, 2013 Summer Session II: July 1, 2013 - August 2, 2013 A Congressional internship is a rewarding experience, and both Washington, D.C., and district office interns will work closely with Congressman Womack’s staff and constituents whi... Read more

U.S. Senator John Boozman, Congressmen Rick Crawford (AR-1), Tim Griffin (AR-2), Steve Womack (AR-3), and Tom Cotton (AR-4) made the following statements today after joining a bipartisan group of 45 other members of the House and Senate to send a letter to FAA Administrator Huerta asking for details of the agency’s plan to close 189 contract control towers because of sequester: “The Administration’s doom and gloom approach to sequestration is unfortunate,” Boozman said. “Instead of minimizing th... Read more

“The freedom of private business to organize and operate for profit in a competitive system without interference by government beyond regulation necessary to protect public interest and keep the national economy in balance.” That’s Webster’s definition of free enterprise. And for far too long, the Supreme Court’s outdated Quill v. North Dakota decision has stood as a roadblock to this cornerstone conservative principle. In this 1992 ruling, the Court simply said that states do not have the autho... Read more

The House of Representatives today passed H.R. 933, a Continuing Resolution (CR) to prevent a government shutdown and continue government operations until the end of the fiscal year on September 30, 2013. The legislation includes a full-year Defense Appropriations bill, as well as a full-year Military Construction/Veterans Affairs Appropriations bill. These two individual bills passed the House last year on a broad bipartisan basis, and have been negotiated by both the House and Senate. Addition... Read more

The President has the authority to make appointments when the Senate is not in session, and, on January 4, 2012, during a pro forma session of Congress, President Obama appointed Sharon Block, Terence F. Flynn, and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). On January 25, 2013, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled that President Obama’s so-called ‘recess’ appointments to the NLRB were unconstitutional. Today, U.S. Representative Steve Womack (AR-3) introduced H... Read more

Congressman Steve Womack released the following statement in response to the cancelation of all self-guided White House tours due to sequestration: “President Obama proposed the “sequester” and, since it went into effect, has been hell-bent on making its implementation as painful as possible. Today, he announced that the White House will be shutting its doors to Americans visiting our nation’s capital. “The White House belongs to the American people, not President Obama. I suggest he spends more... Read more

Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the following statement on the sequester: “America has a spending problem. Unfortunately, the President opted to take the easy route by refusing to make the real reforms and targeted cuts we need and, instead, let his sequester implement irresponsible, across-the-board cuts to discretionary and defense spending without addressing the true drivers of our deficits and debt: mandatory spending. “The conversation on spending is far from over, and we have a lo... Read more

Congressman Steve Womack today released the following statement in response to President Barack Obama’s sequestration remarks: “President Obama proposed the devastating, across-the-board spending cuts – known as the “sequester” – that disproportionately affect our service men and women by putting fifty percent of the $1.2 trillion cut on their backs. Today, he called on Congress to find a solution to the mess he created. The reality is House Republicans have already passed two bills to replace t... Read more

On April 5, 2012, the President signed the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act (JOBS Act) into law. Among other things, the bill raised the shareholder registration threshold from 500 to 2,000 and increased the deregistration threshold from 300 to 1,200 for banks and bank holding companies. Unfortunately, the JOBS Act did not explicitly extend the thresholds to savings and loan holding companies (SLHCs). However, it was not the intention of Congress to treat SLHCs differently from bank and bank ... Read more