Jeb Hensarling’s portrait as Chairman of the Financial Services Committee includes two economic texts on his cluttered desk. The authors, Milton Friedman and F. A. Hayek, were both Nobel Prize winners in economics. Hensarling first encountered their work in college, more than thirty years before this painting was commissioned. Many committee portraits of the early 21st century have included texts that influenced the subjects’ thinking and careers.
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