The House Freedom Caucus (HFC) is a “caucus” (an informal name for a Congressional Member Organization) that was formed in 2015 by 9 Republicans in the House of Representatives who wanted to coordinate separately from the Republican Study Committee or House Republican Conference (two other Congressional Member Organizations).
The HFC does not publish a public list of its members, but at least 52 members of congress have either self-identified or have been identified by colleagues as HFC members as of January 3, 2023 (the start of the 118th Congress).
In college, Ricky studied physics & math, won a prestigious research competition hosted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory, started several small businesses including an energy chewing gum business and a computer repair business, and graduated with a thesis in algebraic topology. After graduating, Ricky attended grad school at Duke University in the mathematics PhD program where he worked on quantum algorithms & non-Euclidean geometry models for flexible proteins. He also worked in cybersecurity at Los Alamos during this time before eventually dropping out of grad school to join a startup working on formal semantic modeling for legal documents. Finally, he left that startup to start his own in the finance & crypto space. Now, he helps entrepreneurs pay less capital gains tax.
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