Subject: Van Taylor

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Nicholas Van Campen Taylor, known as Van Taylor (R-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician from Plano, Texas. He is the U.S. Representative for Texas’ 3rd congressional district. Taylor is a veteran of the Iraq War and a member of the Republican Party, he represented District 8 in the Texas Senate for a single term from 2015 to 2019. He also previously served in the Texas House of Representatives for District 66 in western Collin County. From January 2002 to December 2018, Taylor worked for Churchill Capital Company, a real estate investment banking and principal investment firm, as a real estate investment banker. He previously worked for McKinsey & Company and Trammell Crow Company. He graduated from Harvard University (BA, MBA).

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Subject: William Timmons

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William Richardson Timmons IV (R-SC) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American attorney, entrepreneur, and politician from South Carolina. He is the United States representative for South Carolina’s 4th congressional district. The district is located in the heart of the Upstate and includes Greenville, Spartanburg, and most of those cities’ suburbs. He served as a state senator in the South Carolina Senate from the 6th district from 2016 to 2018. He is a member of the Republican Party. Timmons graduated from George Washington University (BA), and University of South Carolina (MA, JD).

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Subject: Denver Riggleman

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Denver Lee Riggleman III (R-VA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, currently serving in the United States House of Representatives for Virginia’s 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor, Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014. As a Republican, he ran for his party’s nomination in the 2017 gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race. Riggleman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018. He graduated from Rowan College, Burlington, Air University, University of Virginia, and Villanova University.

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Subject: Lance Gooden

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Lance Carter Gooden (R-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is the U.S. Representative for Texas’s 5th congressional district, having won the general election held on November 6, 2018. Gooden previously served in the Texas House of Representatives for District 4. He served two terms in the state House from 2011 to 2015 before he lost his re-election bid in the 2014 Republican primary election. He was returned to office in 2016 for this third nonconsecutive term in the legislature. He graduated from the University of Texas at Austin (BA, BBA).

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Subject: Bryan Steil

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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). 

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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.

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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).

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U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services

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