Jeb Hensarling

Jeb Hensarling (* May 29, 1957 in Stephenville, Erath County, Texas) is an American politician. Since 2003 he represents the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Jeb Hensarling studied until 1979 at the Texas A & M University. After a subsequent law studies at the University of Texas at Austin and its made ​​in 1982 admitted to the bar he began to work in this profession. Between 1985 and 1989 he was part of the senior staff of U.S. Senator Phil Gramm. He then became active in the private sector. He was vice president of two companies and in 2001 CEO of Family Support Assurance Corporation. Since 1996 he was the owner of the company San Jacinto Ventures.

Politically, Hensarling joined the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 2002 he was in the fifth electoral district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded Pete Sessions took on 3 January 2003, who moved into the 32th district. After the previous four elections he can exercise his mandate in Congress today. He is a member and Vice Chairman of the Finance Committee and the Special Committee on deficit reduction; He also sits in two sub-committees. Hensarling is considered conservative. Between 2007 and 2009 he was chairman of the Republican Study Committee; and since 2011 he heads the House Republican Conference. Hensarling is also as a possible successor of not more candidates in 2012, U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison in the conversation.