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Congressman Steve Womack (AR-3) today released the following statement after Federal Bureau of Investigation‎ (FBI) Director James Comey recommended to the Department of Justice that no charges be brought against Hillary Clinton for her handling of classified information while she was Secretary of State:

“In Director Comey’s own words, the FBI ‘looked at whether there is evidence classified information was improperly stored or transmitted on that personal system, in violation of a federal statute making it a felony to mishandle classified information either intentionally or in a grossly negligent way… 110 e-mails in 52 e-mail chains have been determined by the owning agency to contain classified information at the time they were sent or received.  Eight of those chains contained information that was Top Secret at the time they were sent; 36 chains contained Secret information at the time; and eight contained Confidential information.’

“The buck has to stop somewhere, and if the head of the State Department cannot be held accountable for proven infractions, I don’t know who can.  It is no wonder Americans do not trust the federal government.”

Congressman Steve Womack has represented Arkansas’s Third Congressional District since 2011 and serves on the House Appropriations Defense, Financial Services and General Government, and Labor-Health and Human Services subcommittees and the House Committee on the Budget.

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