Rep.-Elect Steve Womack Joins Shutdown Caucus, Increasing Total Membership To 7

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Source: Think Progress

Some Republicans, like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, look back at the 1995 government shutdown debacle as a cautionary tale of the practical and political costs of shutting down the federal government. Others view it as a how-to guide for the 112th Congress.
Rep.-elect Steve Womack (R-AR) has opted to draw the latter lesson. According to The Hill, Womack said he would be “open” to a government shutdown over the issue of federal spending after he takes office in January. Womack joins six other members of the Shutdown Caucus, which advocates shutting down the federal government unless their demands are met. Those members of Congress calling for a shutdown now include:
- Rep.-elect Steve Womack (R-AR)
- Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA)
- Rep. Steve King (R-IA)
- Rep.-elect Tim Walberg (R-MI)
- Rep.-elect Alan Nunnellee (R-MS)
- Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX)
- Sen.-elect Mike Lee (R-UT)

Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/2010/12/13/womack-govt-shutdown/

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Another eleven current or incoming members of Congress have also came out in opposition to raising the debt ceiling when it comes up for a vote early next year. Though these members have not explicitly called for a government shutdown, if Congress were to shoot down an increase in the debt ceiling, one consequence would likely be a shutdown of government operations.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. cut federal spending. Cancel Womack's paycheck

and cancel his gubt run health care

[jmowreader]

2. Shutdown caucus? WTF?

The simple fact the teabaggers have actually founded a shutdown caucus--one dedicated to conducting a shutdown, not one dedicated to stopping one--proves the teabaggers are completely anti-American.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Typical behavior of a Northwest Arkansas Republican

Just wait till you meet his "separated-at-birth twin", Senator-elect John Boozman. Two peas in a pod from from Rogers, Arkansas, formerly a Democratic stronghold but now Teabag Central.

[muntrv]

4. Give up your taxpayer funded health insurance plans, repukes.

[Demeter]

5. Go Ahead. Make My Day!

[No Elephants]

6. Sorry. Eastwood's a Rethug.

[No Elephants]

7. Why do Rethugs hate America so much?