Steve Womack

It is with a heavy heart that I rise today to honor the memory of Corporal William ``Bill'' Cooper, a dedicated law enforcement officer in Arkansas. Bill, a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps, served the Sebastian County Sheriff's Office…

So, Mr. Chairman, that is why the Appropriations Committee approved language in our bill to address this issue, and we did so unanimously. Now Congress has to step in again to restore basic fairness to the effort to regulate arbitration…

I thank the gentleman for the time and also his great work as chairman of the subcommittee. As a proud member of the subcommittee, we are going to miss Mr. Crenshaw. It has been a delight to work with him as well as the ranking member, Mr…

I was interested in the port fees issue, and I wondered if you could talk a little bit about that.

I am gravely concerned about the tactic that we have discussed.

Let me appeal to you. I mean, look, obviously, I have got a major retailer in my district...

I find it incredible that anybody associated with the Federal Government would be in the presence of a retailer selling a lawful product...

Mr. Chairman, how would you call that anything but intimidation? You are the heavy hand of government standing in a retailer's office basically intimidating them to the point where they stop selling a product that is on their shelves. How…

I concur with the chairman, and I have an enormous amount of respect for the ranking member.

Now, when you look at where we have come from, the $10 trillion to $20 trillion, that is a huge deficit increase--or huge debt increase, and no one gets a pat on the back for that.

But your attempts to sugarcoat this budget and its projections for the future on behalf of the administration that I know you work for is just a sad abdication of responsibility for the challenges we are facing as a country.

I know that the President wants to raise a lot of taxes. What I find incomprehensible as a Member of Congress...

I am glad you mentioned health care, because I agree with you that it is the principal driver of the deficits and the debt.

How can you sit here with a straight face and tell this committee... that this President has done anything but lead?

Even with tax increases, it balloons to more than $700 billion a year.

So only in Washington and only from the Office of Management and Budget could we see the gross Federal debt go from $19 trillion today to... even with $3 trillion worth of tax increases, $26 trillion in the 10-year window.

I thank the manager of this legislation for the time. I would like to also thank Chairman Hensarling and the entire Financial Services Committee for, yet again, ensuring that this bill, the Holding Company Registration Threshold…

They say that great things come in small packages, and that could not be more true of the Reagan sisters of Rogers, Arkansas. I rise today in gratitude to them. Agnes Lytton, Mary Sue, and Betty Lynn Reagan were born and raised in…

In all fairness to the IRS, and I know it is hard to believe I would say that, but it is really the legislation, the big soup that was created in the legislation, that put the IRS in a very difficult position.

We are in a business where the more people we can put into our restaurants, the better we can perform.

We have spent the last several years looking at how we were going to report.

We have about 200 employees right now.

It was clear to me then that the promises of the ACA were in conflict with each other--expanding coverage, improving health care, while lowering cost--but, sadly, it is clear to me now that the law has not delivered.

It is always great to have you here. Always look forward to your testimony.

We need to be careful, that the message that we are sending is anything but that which would become a combat multiplier.