A Representative from Texas. Born in Fort Lewis, Pierce County, Wash. , December 9, 1962. Graduated from Clear Lake High School, Houston, Tex. , 1981. B. A. , Rice University, Houston, Tex. , 1985. J. D. , University of Texas School of Law, Austin, Tex. , 1988. United States Navy, 1988-1997. United States Naval Reserve, 1998-2009. Staff, United States Senator William Philip (Phil) Gramm of Texas, 1998-2002. Staff, United States Senator John Cornyn of Texas, 2002-2007. Elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Eleventh and to the five succeeding Congresses (January 3, 2009-January 3, 2021). Was not a candidate for reelection to the One Hundred Seventeenth Congress in 2020.