
Steve Womack
Conservative
Republican
House Representative
Arkansas - District 3
Current Position: US House Representative AR-3
Running For: House Representative
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- For privatizing Social Security
- Against higher taxes on the wealthy; supports Taxpayer Protection Pledge, wants to repeal the death tax, and supported reducing corporate tax rates from 35% to 21%
- For the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017
Health Care
- Against expanding ObamaCare; calls it an example of what's wrong with Washington, supports fully repealing the national healthcare law and removing all funding from it
Education
- For school choice through vouchers; supports vouchers to break link of low-income and low-quality schools, voted to reauthorize DC opportunity scholarship program
Environment
- Against climate change legislation; signed No Climate Tax Pledge, supports all-of-the-above energy approach since 'we have no answers on climate change', voted to bar EPA from regulating greenhouse gases
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; considers himself pro-life, supports Hyde Amendment limiting public funds for abortion, voted to ban federal health coverage that includes abortion, opposes taxpayer funding of abortions via ObamaCare, supports banning abortion after 20 weeks except for maternal life, wants to include pre-born human beings in 14th Amendment protection, and sponsored bill to protect infant survivors of abortion
- Against same-sex marriage; opposed the Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges and supports faith-based opposition to same-sex marriage
Voting Rights & Democracy
- Against expanding voter registration and voter access; opposes holiday on election day and same-day registration
- For supporting the 2020 presidential election certification; voted to certify both Arizona's and Pennsylvania's results and was one of 35 Republicans to vote for establishing the January 6 commission
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- Against pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens; opposes pathway to citizenship, supports continuing border wall construction, and voted to redefine birthright citizenship to exclude illegal aliens
Public Safety
- For gun ownership rights; opposes restricting gun purchase and possession, voted against background checks for every firearm sale and private transfers, supports allowing veterans to register unlicensed guns acquired abroad
- Against marijuana legalization; rated D by NORML indicating a 'hard-on-drugs' stance, voted to combat epidemic of synthetic drugs
- Against Violence Against Women Act reauthorization