Bryan Steil (R-WI) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician who currently serves as the U.S. Representative for Wisconsin’s 1st congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. In 2003, Steil spent one year working as an aide to U.S. Representative Paul Ryan. Prior to being elected to Congress, Steil spent a decade in the manufacturing industry in Southeast Wisconsin. Prior to running for Congress, Steil was an executive for plastics manufacturer Charter NEX Film. He also spent time working for Regal Beloit, spending a short stint living in China while working for the company, and also spent time at McDermott Will & Emery as an attorney. He graduated from Georgetown University (BS), and University of Wisconsin–Madison (JD).
Subject: John Rose
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John Williams Rose (R-TN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. Representative for Tennessee’s 6th congressional district since 2019. He is a member of the Republican party. Rose was commissioner of agriculture for Tennessee. Rose co-founded Transcender Corp. , which was sold in 2000 for $60 million. Rose owns and is the president of Boson Software, LLC, which trains IT professionals. He graduated from Tennessee Technological University (BS), Purdue University (MS), and Vanderbilt University (JD).
Subject: Anthony Gonzalez
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Anthony E. Gonzalez (R-OH) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and former professional football player. A member of the Republican Party, he has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 16th congressional district since 2019. He played college football at Ohio State and was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts in the first round of the 2007 NFL Draft. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives on November 6, 2018 and was sworn in on January 3, 2019. He graduated from Ohio State University (BA), and Stanford University (MBA).
Subject: Trey Hollingsworth
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Joseph Albert ‘Trey’ Hollingsworth III (R-IN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician who is the U.S. Representative for Indiana’s 9th congressional district, serving since 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party. Hollingsworth serves as the Vice Ranking Member of the House Financial Services Committee Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship, and Capital Markets and a member of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Diversity and Inclusion. Before serving in the House of Representatives, Hollingsworth was a small-business owner. After college, he began renovating and rehabilitating abandoned industrial sites. In 2008, Hollingsworth partnered with businessmen and chemists to start an aluminum remanufacturing operation in Indiana. With a net worth of $50.1 million, Hollingsworth is the 12th wealthiest member of Congress. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania (BS), and Georgetown University (MPP).
Subject: David Kustoff
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David Kustoff (R-TN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician and attorney who served as a United States Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee from 2006 until 2008 and a United States Representative from Tennessee as a Republican. He graduated from the University of Memphis (B.A, J.D.). In 1998, Kustoff opened a law firm with Jim Strickland, whom he met at the University of Memphis. Both would become active in Tennessee politics; Strickland was elected Mayor of Memphis in 2015. He also served as George W. Bush’s campaign chairman in Tennessee during the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. In 2006, President Bush nominated Kustoff for the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Tennessee.
Subject: Ted Budd
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Ted Budd (R-NC) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician from the state of North Carolina. A Republican, Budd is the member of the United States House of Representatives for North Carolina’s 13th congressional district. He graduated from Appalachian State University (BS), Dallas Theological Seminary (MA), and Wake Forest University (MBA).
Subject: Warren Davidson
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Warren Davidson (R-OH) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Warren Earl Davidson is an American Republican politician from the state of Ohio. He is the member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio’s 8th congressional district. After his military service, he led his family’s business in the Ohio manufacturing industry, which he ran until entering public service. He was appointed to the 2020 United States Military Academy Board of Visitors. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (BS), and University of Notre Dame (MBA).
Subject: Alexander X. Mooney
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Alexander X. Mooney (R-WV) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is the U.S. Representative for West Virginia’s 2nd congressional district since 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. He served in the Maryland State Senate, representing District 3, from 1999 to 2011 and is a former Chairman of the Maryland Republican Party. Mooney graduated with a BA from Dartmouth College. After college, Mooney served as staff assistant to U.S. Representative Roscoe Bartlett. In 1995 he became a legislative analyst for the Republican Conference of the U.S. House of Representatives. While in office, he served as the executive director of the National Journalism Center from 2005 to 2012.
Subject: Barry Loudermilk
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Barry Dean Loudermilk (R-GA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician from the state of Georgia. He is the U.S. Congressman from Georgia’s 11th congressional district, serving since 2015. Prior to this, Loudermilk was elected to the State Senate in 2010. As a state senator, he served as Chair to the Senate Science and Technology Committee and as Secretary to the Veterans, Military and Homeland Security and Public Safety Committees. He was also a member of the Senate Transportation Committee. Loudermilk graduated from the Community College of the Air Force (AAS), and Wayland Baptist University (BS).
Subject: Lee M. Zeldin
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Lee M. Zeldin (R-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 1st congressional district since 2015. The district includes central and eastern Suffolk County, New York, including most of Smithtown, as well as the towns of Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Southampton, East Hampton and Shelter Island, New York. A member of the Republican Party, Zeldin previously served as the New York State Senator from the 3rd district from 2011 to 2014. He received an Army ROTC commission as a second lieutenant, and served in the United States Army from 2003 to 2007, first in the Military Intelligence Corps. Zeldin also served as a prosecutor in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps and as a military magistrate. In 2007 Zeldin became an attorney for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. In 2008 he started a law practice in Smithtown. He operated it full-time until he was elected to New York’s 3rd State Senate district in 2010. He graduated from the State University of New York, Albany (BA), and Albany Law School (JD).
Subject: Tom Emmer
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Tom Earl Emmer Jr. (R-MN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American attorney and politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district since January 2015. Emmer served as a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from 2005 until 2011 and was the Republican nominee for governor in the 2010 election. Emmer graduated from Boston College, University of Alaska Fairbanks (BA), William Mitchell College of Law (JD).
Subject: French Hill
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French Hil (R-AR) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative for Arkansas’s 2nd congressional district. He was first elected in 2014 and took office on January 3, 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party. Hill served as executive secretary to President George H. W. Bush’s Economic Policy Council and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance. Hill founded and was the CEO and chairman of the Board Delta Trust and Banking Corporation in Little Rock until its acquisition by Simmons Bank in 2014. He graduated from Vanderbilt University (BS).
Media: Larry Smith
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Larry Smith spent the first 25 years of his career working on Wall Street as an analyst with a primary focus on biotechnology and pharmaceutical stocks, as well as many other industries. He spent the majority of this time with Smith Barney and Hambrecht & Quist and was Executive Vice President, Director of Equities and Fixed Income Research, Chairman of the Investment Policy Committee, a member of the Board of Directors, on the Operating Committee and on the Commitment Committee. At Hambrecht & Quist, he was a Managing Director, Manager of Life Sciences Research, on the Operating Committee, on the Commitment Committee and was also Chairman of Annual H&Q Life Sciences Conference for six years. In 2003, Smith founded DLS Research, LLC, a subscription research firm. Smith received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Media: Gary Weiss
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Gary Weiss is an American investigative journalist, columnist and author of two books that critically examine the ethics and morality of Wall Street. He was also a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. His Businessweek articles exposed organized crime on Wall Street and the Salomon Brothers bond trading scandal in the 1990s, and more recently he has covered the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. Weiss received degrees from the City College of New York and the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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