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THOMAS MASSIE
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U.S. Representative Thomas Massie entered Congress in November 2012. He is honored to represent and serve the citizens of Kentucky’s 4th District.

 

Massie attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he earned a Bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a Master’s degree in mechanical engineering. During school, he invented a technology that enabled people to interact with computers using their sense of touch and leveraged that technology to found SensAble Technologies, Inc., which raised over $32 million of venture capital, created seventy jobs and obtained twenty-nine patents. 

 

In Congress, Thomas serves on three committees: the House Committee on Rules, the House Committee on Transportation & Infrastructure, and the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over laws that affect intellectual property, industrial hemp, civil liberties, firearms, and other topics that were among the reasons Thomas ran for Congress! In addition to serving on these committees, Thomas is the chairman of the Subcommittee on the Administrative State, Regulatory Reform, and Antitrust, and he serves as a member of the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. 

 

Thomas lives on a cattle farm in Kentucky.