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Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) released the following statement Saturday after the House rejected Senator Harry Reid’s debt ceiling proposal:

“Mr. Reid’s bill was a non-starter. It’s shallow, with little to no substance, and it accomplishes nothing.

“We continue to hear Senate Democrats talk about compromise. It’s one thing to talk about compromise, but to actually act on it is an entirely different animal. The House has passed two bills in two weeks to prevent our country from defaulting, while cutting spending. Mr. Reid and his colleagues in the Senate have done nothing. And now the one proposal they do present to the House is dead on arrival because of its failure to address Washington’s drunken spending spree. Is that a compromise? I don’t think so.”

“I was a co-sponsor of the Cut, Cap, and Balance legislation that we passed a couple of weeks ago, and I was with the Speaker on his plan—the Budget Control Act of 2011. Look, I’m like the rest of America. I want to see something done.

“We have to recognize that the sands in the hour glass are running away from us, and we have to do something to bring fiscal sanity to this great nation and allay the fears of the world markets.”

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