Welcome to Chatter with BNC, Business North Carolina's weekly podcast, serving up interviews with some of the Tar Heel State's most interesting people.

In today's episode, David Mildenberg speaks with U.S. Representative Patrick McHenry of Lincoln County. The graduate of Ashbrook High School in Gastonia and Belmont Abbey College was elected to Congress in 2004, when he was 29. He chairs the House Financial Service Committee. His district ranges from the Lake Norman suburbs of Charlotte to Burke County. He and his wife, Giulia, have two daughters and a son.