Geoff Davis was elected to the U.S. House in 2004 and served until 2012. During his tenure in Congress, he held a leadership role within the Republican Conference as a Deputy Whip. Davis served on the House Financial Services and Armed Services Committees until 2008, and then was appointed to the Committee on Ways & Means.

In the 112th Congress, Davis was named Chairman of the Ways and Means’ Subcommittee on Human Resources, which has jurisdiction over a wide range of Federal Programs including Unemployment Insurance, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Child Welfare, Adoption and Foster Care, as well as select nutrition and Social Security related programs. Davis was also the second ranking Member of the Trade Subcommittee for four years, and was involved in the completion and passage of three critical agreements, the Columbia, Panama, and South Korea Free Trade Agreements.

Davis has been recognized for his efforts in defense and regulatory reform, and was the author and originator of the REINS Act which would require that all Federal regulations with an impact of $100 Million or greater had to come before Congress for an up or down vote. It has passed the House twice in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017. He also introduced numerous pieces of legislation related to national security reforms.

A wide range of his work has been nationally recognized. He advocated for government process improvements to streamline compliance systems and led efforts to structure tax policy to improve incentives for investment and job creation. Moreover, he was a recognized advocate for alternative energy resources, working on Defense Alternative Energy initiatives in the Congress and Department of Defense. He is currently working on the advancement of military lightweighting technology for ground vehicles, in order to reduce fuel consumption, increase service life, extend range, and improve payloads.

Davis was also the co-founder of the Congressional Caucus on Homelessness. In addition, he was nominated to be a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations for his national security work. Finally, the House Armed Services Committee Chairman asked him to Chair a Special Committee to study Emerging Nuclear Threats from Iran, North Korea, and Non-State Groups during the 109th Congress, based on his prior service, work and study.

Davis introduced legislation that was signed into law on a range of topics, including welfare reforms, “Warrior Pay” to increase hazardous duty pay for multi-deployment veterans, protection of military service members from predatory sales of financial products, and data standardization requirements for numerous federal entitlement programs. He also introduced legislation and built bipartisan coalitions to simplify interstate insurance sales and require accountability from federal agencies for financial reporting burdens put on companies.

Davis has a broad national security background and chaired the House National Security Interagency Reform Working Group. He published articles on reforming the defense process, as well as passing numerous pieces of legislation to assist service men and women, like the Citizen Soldier Equality Act to equalize military retirement disability pay between the National Guard & Reserves, and the Active Component. Finally, as one of the few military aviators in the Congress, he was actively engaged on defense aviation acquisition policy and the Army’s Future Vertical Lift efforts.

Since leaving the Congress, he has participated in conferences and meetings in the Middle East and South Asia related to advancing economic security, religious freedom and reconciliation. In addition, for the last several years, he has served as a panelist on political-military affairs at an annual Track 1.5 SINO-US Counter Terrorism Dialogue in Beijing China with former senior U.S. Military and Diplomatic leaders.

At age 17, Davis enlisted in the Army and later earned an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Among his later assignments, he served as an Assault Helicopter Flight Commander in the 82nd Airborne Division, and ran Flight Operations for the U.S. Army Peace Enforcement mission between Israel and Egypt. Later he assisted in the development and implementation of the XVIII Airborne Corps’ Army of Excellence reorganization concurrently with the Goldwater-Nichols defense reforms. He is a former Army Ranger, Aviator, and Senior Parachutist.

Prior to serving in Congress, Davis had a background in aerospace and technology integration, and later led a consulting firm that served Fortune 1000 corporations and specialized in lean manufacturing and systems integration. He has a background in “Big Data” and related Enterprise Resource Planning and Customer Relationship Management Systems. After leaving Congress, he restarted his consulting business, and is currently doing a range of public policy consulting.