Benjamin Michael McAdams (D-UT) 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 from Utah’s 4th congressional district since 2019. He is the only Democratic member of Utah’s congressional delegation, and a member of the Blue Dog Coalition. From 2013 to 2019 he served as mayor of Salt Lake County, and from 2009 to 2012, he was the Utah state senator from the 2nd district, which includes Salt Lake City, South Salt Lake, and a portion of West Valley. McAdams graduated from the University of Utah (BA), and Columbia University (JD). After graduating from law school, McAdams briefly worked in New York City as an associate at the law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell. McAdams and his family then returned to Utah, where he joined the law firm Dorsey & Whitney in Salt Lake City, working in securities law. McAdams then became Senior Advisor to Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker.
Subject: Stephen F. Lynch
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Stephen Francis Lynch (D-MA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American politician who has served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts since 2001. He is a Democrat representing Massachusetts’s 8th congressional district, which includes the southern fourth of Boston and many of its southern suburbs. Lynch was previously an ironworker and lawyer, and served in both chambers of the Massachusetts General Court. He received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 1991. For several years he worked as a lawyer, primarily representing housing project residents and labor unions. Lynch was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, unseating an incumbent Democratic lawmaker, in 1994.
Subject: Jesús “Chuy” García,
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Jesús G. “Chuy” García (D-Ill) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a Mexican-born American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for Illinois’s 4th district since 2019. A member of the Democratic Party, he served on the Cook County Board of Commissioners, Illinois Senate, as well as Chicago City Council before his election to Congress. In 1983, García was the campaign manager for labor organizer Rudy Lozano. Garcia graduated from the University of Illinois at Chicago (BA, MUP).
Subject: Dean Phillips
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Dean Phillips, (D-MN) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Phillips is an American businessman and politician from the state of Minnesota. A Democrat, he is the member of the US House of Representatives from Minnesota’s 3rd congressional district since the 2018 election. Phillips graduated from Brown University (BA), and the University of Minnesota (MBA).
Subject: Jim A. Himes
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Jim A. Himes (D-CT) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American businessman and U.S. Representative for Connecticut’s 4th congressional district, serving since 2009. He is a member of the Democratic Party and former Chair of the New Democrat Coalition. In 1995, Himes began working at Goldman Sachs as a banker in Latin America and New York. He was eventually promoted to vice president. In 2007, he was named vice president of the non-profit Enterprise Foundation (currently Enterprise Community Partners), and later began running its metropolitan New York operations. Himes was appointed a Commissioner of the Greenwich Housing Authority in 2002, and served for two years as chairman of the board. He has also served as a board member of Aspira of Connecticut in Bridgeport, a board member of the Fairfield County Community Foundation, and as an advisory board member of Family Assets, LLP of Bridgeport. Himes graduated from Harvard (BA), Oxford (MA).
Subject: Ed Perlmutter
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Ed Perlmutter (D-CO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Perlmutter is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for Colorado’s 7th congressional district, serving since 2007. Perlmutter was a Colorado State Senator from 1995 to 2003. He graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder (BA, JD).
Subject: Emanuel Cleaver
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Emanuel Cleaver II (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a United Methodist pastor and an American politician who is a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. Cleaver represents Missouri’s 5th congressional district, elected in 2005. The district includes the southern three-fourths of Kansas City. Cleaver is a member of the Democratic Party, and in January 2010, he became chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, a position he held until 2019. Cleaver served on the Kansas City Council from 1979 to 1991, until he was elected Mayor, serving from 1991 to 1999.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: Al Green
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Al Green (D-TX) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is an American lawyer and politician. Green has served in Congress as the Representative for Texas’s 9th congressional district since 2005. Green is a member of the Democratic Party. He attended Florida A&M University and Tuskegee University. He received a Juris Doctor degree, in 1974 from Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University. After law school, Green co-founded the law firm of Green, Wilson, Dewberry, and Fitch. In 1978, Green was elected justice of the peace in Harris County, Texas. He held this position for 26 years before retiring in 2004.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: David Scott
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David Albert Scott (D-GA) – is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. is the U.S. Representative for Georgia’s 13th congressional district, serving since 2003. The district includes the southern fourth of Atlanta, as well as several of its suburbs to the south and west. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He received a bachelor’s degree in finance from Florida A&M University, and a master’s degree in business from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
U.S. House Banking Committee on Financial Services
Subject: William Lacy Clay, Jr.
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William Lacy Clay Jr. (D-MO) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He is an American politician who is the U.S. Representative from Missouri’s 1st congressional district, serving since 2001. The district is based in the city of St. Louis and includes most of northern St. Louis County (North County). He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park (BA).
Subject: Gregory W. Meeks
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Gregory W. Meeks (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Meeks is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for New York’s 5th congressional district since 1998. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously worked as an Assistant District Attorney and for the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York before joining the Investigations Commission on official misconduct and organized crime. He then was Supervising Judge for the New York State Workers Compensation System. Meeks was a member of the New York State Assembly (31st D.) from 1993 to 1998, sitting in the 190th, 191st, and 192nd New York State Legislatures. Meeks graduated from Adelphi University (BA) and Howard University (JD).
Subject: Brad Sherman
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Brad Sherman (D-CA) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. Sherman is an American politician serving as a member of the United States House of Representatives. A Democrat, Sherman is in his 12th term as a congressman, having served since 1997. He currently represents California’s 30th congressional district within the San Fernando Valley, in Los Angeles County and the eastern Simi Hills in Ventura County. He previously represented the state’s 24th and 27th congressional districts, located in Los Angeles County. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (B.A.), Harvard University (J.D.)
Subject: Nydia M. Velázquez
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Nydia M. Velázquez (D-NY) is a committee member of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is a Puerto Rican-American politician serving in the United States House of Representatives since 1993. Velázquez, a Democrat from New York was the chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus until January 3, 2011. Her district, located in New York City, was numbered the 12th district from 1993 to 2013 and has been numbered the 7th district since 2013. In 1976, Velázquez received an M.A. in political science from New York University. She subsequently served as an instructor of political science at the University of Puerto Rico at Humacao from 1976 to 1981. After returning to New York City, Velázquez was an adjunct professor of Puerto Rican studies at Hunter College from 1981 to 1983.
Subject: Carolyn B. Maloney
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Carolyn B. Maloney (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 12th congressional district since 2013. A member of the Democratic Party, she is in her 14th term in Congress, having represented the state’s 14th congressional district from 1993 until redistricting in 2013, and the 12th from 2013 to the present. Maloney, for several years, she worked as a teacher and an administrator for the New York City Board of Education. In 1977, she obtained a job working for the New York State Legislature and held senior staff positions in both the State Assembly and the State Senate. She graduated from Greensboro College (BA).
Subject: Maxine Waters
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Maxine Moore Waters (D-CA) is currently the chairwoman of the 116th Congress U.S. House Committee on Financial Services. She is an American politician serving as the U.S. Representative for California’s 43rd congressional district since 1991. The district, numbered as the 29th district from 1991–1993 and as the 35th district from 1993 to 2013. Waters is a member of the Democratic Party and is currently in her 15th term in the House. Before becoming a U.S. Representative, Waters served in the California State Assembly, to which she was first elected in 1976. Waters received her Bachelors Degree in Sociology in 1971 at Los Angeles State College (now California State University, Los Angeles), where she received a bachelor’s degree in sociology in 1971.
