Bill Posey (R-FL) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Florida’s 8th congressional district, in Congress since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. He formerly served in the Florida Senate and the Florida House of Representatives. Prior to this, he got a job with McDonnell Douglas, and did Apollo Space Program work at Kennedy Space Center till he was laid off. From 1974 to 1976, Bill Posey worked on the Rockledge Planning Commission. In 1976, he was elected as a member of the City Council, and from 1986 to 1992, he was a member of the Brevard County Business and Industrial Development Commission. Posey also founded his own real estate company during the 1970s. He later became director of the state Association of Realtors. He graduated from Brevard Community College (AA).
Subject: Frank D. Lucas
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Frank D. Lucas (R-OK) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Oklahoma’s 3rd congressional district, since 2003, having previously represented the 6th district, from 1994 to 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party and serves as the ranking minority member of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology. Lucas graduated from Oklahoma State University.
Subject: Patrick McHenry
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Patrick McHenry (R-NC) is a Ranking Member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is the U.S. Representative for North Carolina’s 10th congressional district. He is a member of the Republican Party. He was a member of the North Carolina House of Representatives for a single term.
Subject: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 14th congressional district. The district includes the eastern part of the Bronx and portions of north-central Queens in New York City. She is a member of the Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University (BA).
Subject: Ayanna Pressley
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Ayanna Soyini Pressley (D-MA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Massachusetts’s 7th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Pressley defeated ten-term incumbent Mike Capuano in the primary election and ran unopposed in the general election. She was previously elected as an at-large member of the Boston City Council in 2010. She graduated from Boston University.
Subject: Rashida Tlaib
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Rashida Harbi Tlaib (D-MI) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. Representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, Tlaib represented the 6th and 12th districts of the Michigan House of Representatives before her election to Congress. In 2018, Tlaib won the Democratic nomination for the United States House of Representatives seat from Michigan’s 13th congressional district. She graduated from Wayne State University (BA), and Thomas M. Cooley Law School (JD).
Subject: Joyce Beatty
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Joyce Birdsong Beatty (D-OH) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician who has served as United States Representative for Ohio’s 3rd congressional district since 2013. Previously, she was the Senior Vice-President for Outreach and Engagement at Ohio State University. A Democrat, Beatty was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1999 to 2008, representing the 27th House District; in the Ohio House of Representatives, she served for a time as Minority Leader. She has a B.A. in speech from Central State University, an M.S. in counseling psychology from Wright State University in 1975 and has studied at the doctoral level at the University of Cincinnati. Beatty served as the Montgomery County Health and Human Services Director. In 2003, she received an honorary doctorate from the Ohio Dominican University. Beatty served as a delegate for John Kerry on the Ohio delegation to the 2004 Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Subject: Katie Porter
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Katherine Moore Porter (D-CA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American law professor, attorney, and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 45th congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first Democrat to be elected to represent the district. Porter attended Harvard University and Yale University; she most recently taught at the University of California, Irvine School of Law.
Subject: Cindy Axne
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Cynthia Lynne Axne (D-IA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is a businesswoman and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Iowa’s 3rd congressional district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, she defeated incumbent Republican David Young in the 2018 elections. The district is anchored in the state capital, Des Moines; it serves much of the state’s southwest quadrant, including Council Bluffs. She graduated from the University of Iowa (BA), and Northwestern University (MBA).
Subject: Jennifer Wexton
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Jennifer Lynn Wexton (D-VA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American lawyer and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia who has served as the United States Representative for Virginia’s 10th congressional district since 2019. From 2014 to 2019 Wexton was a member of the Virginia Senate, representing the 33rd district, which includes parts of Fairfax and Loudoun counties. She is a member of the Democratic Party. She graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (BA), and College of William & Mary (JD). Wexton was a partner in the Laurel Brigade Law Group. She served as a substitute judge in Loudoun County, Virginia, and from 2001 to 2005 as an Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney.
Subject: Tulsi Gabbard
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Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician and Hawaii Army National Guard major who serves as the U.S. Representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. Elected in 2012, she is the first Hindu member of Congress and the first Samoan-American voting member of Congress. She was a candidate for the Democratic nomination in the 2020 United States presidential election. In 2002, Gabbard was elected to the Hawaii House of Representatives. Gabbard served in a field medical unit of the Hawaii Army National Guard in Iraq from 2004 to 2005 and was deployed to Kuwait from 2008 to 2009 as Army Military Police platoon leader. She was a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee from 2013 to 2016, when she resigned to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination. Gabbard graduated from Hawaii Pacific University (BSBA).
Subject: Alma Adams
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Alma Shealey Adams (D-NC) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician who represents North Carolina’s 12th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Adams served as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly representing the state’s 58th House district in Guilford County from her appointment in April 1994 until her election to Congress, being succeeded by Ralph C. Johnson. Adams graduated from North Carolina A&T State University (BS, MS), and Ohio State University (PhD).
Subject: Madeleine Dean
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Madeleine Cunnane Dean (D-PA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania’s 4th congressional district. Prior to being elected to Congress, Dean was a Democratic member of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, representing the 153rd district in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. A Pennsylvania native, Dean was first elected to serve in the General Assembly in 2012 in a special election. Dean served on several committees, including Appropriations, Judiciary, Policy, Urban Affairs, State Government, and Finance, of which she was vice-chair. Dean graduated from Montgomery County Community College, La Salle University (BA), Widener University (JD), and University of Pennsylvania.
Subject: Sylvia Garcia
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Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia (D-TX)is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician who has been serving as the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 29th congressional district since 2019. Her district covers much of eastern Houston. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented District 6 in the Texas Senate. In the early 1980s, Houston Mayor Kathryn Whitmire appointed Garcia as presiding judge of the Houston Municipal System. She served for an unprecedented five terms under two mayors. In 1998, Garcia became Houston city controller. In 2002, Garcia was elected to the Harris County Commissioner’s Court. She graduated from Texas Woman’s University (BA), and Texas Southern University (JD).
Subject: Bill Foster
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George William Foster (D-Ill) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman, physicist, and U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 11th congressional district, winning the seat in 2012. He was previously the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 14th congressional district from 2008 to 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (BS), and Harvard University (MS, PhD).
