Analysis: A seven-term congressman, Rep. Steve Womack has grown so frustrated with GOP leadership's kowtowing to a far-right faction that he's considering leaving the House.
“The chair has observed a disturbance,” Womack recalled saying, delivering a brief speech while banging the gavel to bring the chamber back to order. Once things settled down, the parliamentarian’s staff found the formal script for such moments — Womack had, on instinct, delivered the almost perfect response.
Expecting to make a decision around Labor Day, he will weigh whether Republican dysfunction is “so unpleasant” that he can no longer “be a difference maker” in the chamber he loves.After this column appeared online Saturday, Womacksaying that as of now he intends to run again: “To be clear, I am frustrated with the state of play in Congress; however I have every intention of running for reelection and using my work to fix the institution I love,” he wrote.
While serving in the Guard, he won his first campaign, in 1996, for mayor in Rogers, Ark., a few miles east of the then-burgeoning city of Bentonville. The thousands of outsiders who’ve moved to the region to work at Walmart have softened the edge of a congressional district that has been in Republican hands for more than 55 years — Donald Trump’s 60 percent support there in 2016 and 2020 fell well below Mitt Romney’s 66 percent of the vote in 2012.
Then Republicans lost the 2018 midterms, and Ryan, like Boehner before him, retired. Rep. Kevin McCarthy , now the speaker, became minority leader and, slowly but surely, the House GOP’s center of gravity started drifting away from people like Womack.Rep. Jim Jordan , one of McCarthy’s biggest antagonists from the right, became McCarthy’s confidant.
Contrasting McCarthy with Boehner, Womack said some members have trouble taking the speaker at his word.
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