31 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 was 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.

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

Trey Hollingsworth founded an aluminum remanufacturing company, which was reported to have produced approximately 1.8 billion pounds of aluminum before it was sold.

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 introduced a bill to prevent two government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, from lobbying the government while they are simultaneously owned by the government.

Trey Hollingsworth has attempted to implement a lobbying ban for members of Congress in support of his government reform program.

Also in connection with government reform, 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 served on the House Financial Services Committee since taking office in 2017 and was 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.

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

In 2022, Trey Hollingsworth campaigned against CFPB rules that would impose compliance costs on small businesses and compromise individual privacy, as well as CFPB rules that would reduce access to consumer lending.

Trey Hollingsworth met with the National Manufacturing Housing Association in Indianapolis to discuss the affordable housing crisis.

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.

At a campaign event, Trey Hollingsworth said he would not support legislation in the House of Representatives to switch America to a single-payer health insurance system.

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.

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 related legislation.

Trey Hollingsworth married Kelly Francis, daughter of Pat Francis of Pat's Steak House and a Louisville native, in 2014, in a ceremony in Charleston, South Carolina.

Trey Hollingsworth was reported to be the 12th-wealthiest member of the 115th Congress.