A Representative from Iowa. Born in Van Meter, Dallas County, Iowa, May 11, 1968. Graduated from Johnston High School, Johnston, Iowa, 1986. B. A. , Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa, 1991. Businessman. Staff, United States Senator George Hanks (Hank) Brown of Colorado, 1993-1996. Staff, campaign manager, United States Senator James Paul David Bunning of Kentucky, 1998-2006. Chief of staff, United States Senator Charles Ernest Grassley of Iowa, 2006-2013. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourteenth and to the succeeding Congress (January 3, 2015-January 3, 2019). Unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Sixteenth Congress in 2018 and One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.