Responding to the recent decision by North Dakota’s U.S. District Court to grant a preliminary injunction against the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) controversial Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule, U.S. Rep. Steve Womack (R-AR) released a statement in support of the action on Monday.
“As I have traveled the Third District, I have been overwhelmed with the number of Arkansans that will be egregiously harmed by the outrageously overreaching Waters of the United States rule,” Womack said. “This preliminary injunction is the first of many dominoes that will fall throughout the process of stopping WOTUS.
“The House has already passed the Regulatory Integrity Protection Act, and I am hopeful that our colleagues in the Senate will put this critical legislation, which dismantles as much of this harmful rule as possible, on President Obama’s desk.”
Womack, 58, is a native of Russellville, Arkansas. After attending K-10 in Moberly, Missouri, Womack’s family returned to Arkansas in 1973, and he graduated from Russellville High School in 1975. Womack earned a bachelor’s degree from Arkansas Tech University in 1979 and, after graduation, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Arkansas Army National Guard.