Steve Womack

I am also disappointed with the administration's new executive order on climate change and financial risk.

I don't believe the SEC should be using its authority over public companies to require costly and ideologically based disclosures that do not provide material information relevant to making investment decisions.

I think we need to start finding ways to reduce Federal spending.

The inflation spiral that seems to be hitting right now is indeed a tax increase on working families.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks for holding this very important hearing on a truly bipartisan topic, broadband.

I am on record as opposing such taxpayer-funded bailouts.

I will commend the Postal Service employees for their hard work and commitment to deliver mail regardless of the challenges they face.

We have a moral obligation to future generations to get our fiscal house in order.

The rule of law is the bedrock of American society.

Well, I know you did, and you sent a letter out on the issue after our conversation. I just want you to know how much I appreciate that, and that is the kind of response that we all really want from our Federal agencies and, in this…

I want to recognize that the agency has been asked to do a lot under extremely difficult circumstances.

We have got this significant debt hanging over future generations' head, and we have got to be careful not to allow more and more of the Federal tax dollars to go for what is normally paid for at the more local level.

The more we give them--and in this particular case, because of a COVID situation, it was maybe more of a one-off than normal.

It is fundamental to our democracy.

That spirit of unity and consensus should be continued as we work to advance appropriations bills in the coming months.

It is a great honor to be the ranking member on Financial Services and General Government.

I think that is an example of where technology can be part of the solution.

If we are going to invest in anything in our country, if we are going to ask the federal government to have a role in resourcing a lot of this R&D, then it is going to face continued and escalating pressure from the mandatory outlays that…

We had billions and billions of dollars of improper payments and there has to be a way that we can get after those without unnecessarily burdening ourselves.

I expect within the next several days there will be a major announcement of a funding source for a major research institute on our very own campus in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Our nation's strong innovation ecosystem has always been driven by the pioneering spirit on which America was founded.

I believe that, eventually, net interest on the debt is probably going to exceed what we spend on national security, which would be unheard of, in my opinion.

I would assume I would get an affirmative response from every single one of you that in a future infrastructure package the ability for this country to get rural broadband... is important.

I subscribe to the notion that deficits and debt do matter, because eventually we are going to become a credit risk.

I am very concerned that Congress is on the verge of making it worse, because if Congress gives states a powerful incentive to stay locked down, then that is going to continue to retard the recovery.