Subject: Scott Tipton

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Scott Tipton (R-CO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is the U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. In November 2010, he defeated three-term Democratic incumbent John Salazar, to whom he lost by a wide margin in 2006. A Republican, he was previously a member of the Colorado House of Representatives. He received his (BA) from Fort Lewis College.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

Subject: Andy Barr

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Garland Hale “Andy” Barr IV (R-KY) 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 Kentucky’s 6th congressional district since 2013. Prior to being elected, he served in the administration of Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher. He is a member of the Republican Party. He graduated from the University of Virginia (BA), and University of Kentucky (JD). After law school, Barr joined the Fayette County Bar Association Young Lawyers Section and co-founded the Lexington Charity Club. In 2002, he joined the liability defense service group and the business litigation service group at the Lexington law firm of Stites & Harbison. While there, he worked for former Democratic Kentucky Attorney General and future Governor Steve Beshear. 

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

Subject: Ann Wagner

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Ann Wagner (R-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician and diplomat serving as the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s 2nd congressional district since 2013. A member of the Republican Party, she previously was the United States Ambassador to Luxembourg from 2005 to 2009. Prior to her diplomatic post, Wagner chaired the Missouri Republican Party for six years, from 1999 until 2005; she co-chaired the Republican National Committee for four years, starting in 2001.  She graduated from the University of Missouri (BS).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

Subject: Steve Stivers

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Steve Stivers (R-OH) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician who has been the U.S. Representative for Ohio’s 15th congressional district since 2011. He is a member of the Republican Party, and became chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee in 2017. Stivers previously served in the Ohio Senate, representing the 15th district. He is a Brigadier General in the Ohio Army National Guard and served active duty in Iraq as Battalion Commander until December 2005. He graduated from Ohio State University (BA, MBA), United States Army War College (MA).

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Subject: Bill Huizenga

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Bill Huizenga (R-MI) 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 Michigan’s 2nd congressional district since 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 to 2009. He graduated from Calvin College (BA).  In the early 1990s, Huizenga obtained his Michigan Real Estate sales license, and he quickly became one of the most successful realtors in southwest Michigan. He left real estate in 1996 when he was recruited by U.S. Representative Peter Hoekstra to be his Director of Public Policy.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

Subject: Blaine Luetkemeyer

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Blaine Luetkemeyer (R-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician currently serving as the incumbent U.S. Representative for Missouri’s 3rd congressional district, a seat he has held since 2009. Luetkemeyer is a member of the Republican Party. He graduated from Lincoln University, Missouri (BA).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

Subject: Bill Posey

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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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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). 

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services