28 Facts About Trey Hollingsworth

Joseph Albert "Trey" Hollingsworth III is an American businessman and politician who served as the US representative for from 2017 to 2023.

Trey Hollingsworth attended the Webb School in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the Wharton School.

Trey Hollingsworth specialized in rebuilding old manufacturing sites and returning them to service.

Trey Hollingsworth declared his candidacy for the United States House of Representatives in in October 2015.

Trey Hollingsworth was sworn into his first term on January 3,2017, his second term on January 3,2019, and his third term on January 3,2021.

Trey Hollingsworth has promised to serve no more than eight years in the House.

Trey Hollingsworth has attempted to implement a lobbying ban for members of Congress.

Trey Hollingsworth has voted against all short-term spending bills and believes short-term budgeting is a failure of process and waste of taxpayer dollars.

Trey Hollingsworth had served on the House Financial Services Committee since taking office in 2017 and has been active in financial services policy.

In 2019, Trey Hollingsworth introduced the Senior Security Act, which aims to protect senior citizen investors from financial fraud and abuse.

Trey Hollingsworth introduced the Livestock Protection Act to protect farmer's livestock from predatory black vultures after local farmers brought the issue to his attention during a town hall.

Trey Hollingsworth has advocated for Congressional term limits and has promised to serve no more than eight years in the House.

Trey Hollingsworth has proposed a lobbying ban for members of Congress.

Trey Hollingsworth has introduced the Banning Lobbying and Safeguarding Trust Act, which would ban members of Congress from ever registering as a lobbyist.

Trey Hollingsworth considers the act government overreach that impedes innovation by health care companies.

On June 27,2019, Trey Hollingsworth voted to appropriate $4.6 billion in emergency funding to agencies for immigration-related activities.

In December 2017, Trey Hollingsworth voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

Trey Hollingsworth voted for three resolutions in the House of Representatives disapproving of President Trump's arms sales to Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

In December 2020, Hollingsworth was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting certain voting procedures during the 2020 presidential election.

On May 19,2021, Trey Hollingsworth was one of 35 Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting to approve legislation to establish the bipartisan January 6,2021 commission meant to investigate the storming of the US Capitol.

Trey Hollingsworth drafted the act in consultation with service-disabled veterans.

Trey Hollingsworth authored the Protecting Officers of the Law In Civilian Establishments Act to allow federal law enforcement officers to enter federal property armed.

Trey Hollingsworth requested that the US Department of Commerce lift its Section 232 restrictions on POSCO Steel, a Korean steel company with a facility in Jeffersonville, Indiana.

Trey Hollingsworth has repeatedly voted against taxpayer-funded abortion and has repeatedly co-sponsored the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act, Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protections Act, and other pieces of anti-abortion legislation.

Trey Hollingsworth attended the Webb School in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the University of Pennsylvania, graduating from the Wharton School in three years in 2004.

Trey Hollingsworth received his Master's in public policy from Georgetown University in 2014.

Shortly after graduating from Wharton, Trey Hollingsworth founded Trey Hollingsworth Capital Partners, specializing in renovating and rebuilding old manufacturing sites and returning them to service.

Trey Hollingsworth founded an aluminum remanufacturing company that had produced over 1.8 billion pounds of aluminum before Trey Hollingsworth and partners sold it.