Steve Womack

Steve Womack has made Rogers his home and is the father of three sons and grandfather to several grandchildren.¹ Before Congress, his work included managing a radio station, consulting and municipal government.² He also spent three decades in the Arkansas Army National Guard, retiring as a colonel in 2009.¹

Womack graduated from Arkansas Tech University in 1979.² His Guard service included a 2002 deployment to Egypt's Sinai Peninsula with the Multinational Force and Observers.¹ At home, he served two periods on the Rogers City Council before becoming mayor in 1999, a position he held through 2010.²

First elected to Congress in 2010, he now chairs the appropriations subcommittee overseeing transportation, housing and urban development.¹ He previously chaired the House Budget Committee and helped lead a bipartisan review of the budget and appropriations process.¹ His current proposals include creating a bipartisan commission to recommend ways to reduce the federal deficit.³

Womack says the Iran conflict should end and the country should concentrate on threats in the Pacific.³ He supports deporting people he describes as the worst offenders, while criticizing some incidental immigration arrests.³ He faces Democrat Robb Ryerse and Libertarian Bobby Wilson, whose alternatives include different immigration and federal spending policies.³