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RepublicanPete Sessions
U.S. Representative · Texas
Texas's 17th district
U.S. Representative from Texas
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How they won their seat
Pete Sessions won the 2024 U.S. House election in Texas (District 17) with 66.3% of the vote (193,101 votes).
- Pete Sessions · Republican66.3%193,101
- Mark Lorenzen · Democrat33.7%97,941
Certified results. Source: MIT Election Data + Science Lab (MEDSL) ↗. A plurality winner can hold under 50% when more than two candidates run.
Inferred legislative agendas
Pete Sessions' record shows a focus on healthcare, financial services, and accountability measures. Notable sponsored bills include the 'Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act' and the 'Health Care Fairness for All Act', with the bills relating to healthcare and fraud prevention. His committee memberships further emphasize oversight and financial services. Focus areas (from the record): Healthcare · Financial Services · Fraud Prevention · Accountability · Oversight Alignment with declared positions: Insufficient evidence. The available evidence does not include declared positions or tracked promises to compare against his sponsored bills and voting record. What this can't tell you: The politician's specific motives or intentions behind the sponsored bills; The effectiveness of the legislation sponsored or voted on; Any unlogged work or activities outside of the official record. Confidence: moderate (based on the volume of verified record on file).
Inferred, not stated. Pete Sessions has not necessarily stated these as goals. This is an AI-generated, nonpartisan reading of the patterns in their verified record — sponsored legislation, committee work, roll-call votes, and campaign-finance composition — and how those patterns compare to any declared positions and tracked promises. It describes what the record emphasizes, never imputes motive, and is run through an adversarial review pass that scrubs bias, loaded language, and any claim the evidence doesn’t support. It is not a quote, a claim they made, or a rating; every underlying item is sourced in the verified record below; and it never affects the Integrity Score.
Showing 2024. Every tile and chart below reflects this window; some record types (e.g. roll-call votes) only have data for recent years.
Activity in office
What Pete Sessions has actually done in office — sourced from official roll-call and government records, shown in full below. These are facts, separate from tracked promises and never folded into any score. The tracked-positions tile counts sourced stated positions — claims about what they believe, not conduct — and is likewise never scored.
Roll-call data last updated September 7, 2026 · source: Voteview.
Bills sponsored over time
Bills sponsored per year, stacked by outcome (latest action). Outcome data covers the 118th–119th Congresses; earlier years show as “awaiting status” until enriched. Source: Congress.gov.
Bill success rate
Bills SPONSORED in the 118th–119th Congresses, by their latest action. Source: Congress.gov.
Campaign finance over time
- Small-dollar (unitemized)$30K5%
- Large individual (itemized)$222K37%
- PAC / committee$349K58%
By election cycle. Source: FEC.
Committee memberships
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Chairman, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Government OperationsOn record since Jan 2025Chair
- Member, House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform — Health Care and Financial ServicesOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial InstitutionsOn record since Jan 2025Member
- Member, House Committee on Financial Services — Capital MarketsOn record since Jan 2025Member
Source: Congress.gov.
Verified record
401 sponsored billsFacts imported directly from official government sources — shown separately from tracked promises and never folded into the Integrity Score. Each entry links to its primary source.
Sponsored legislation
- Sponsored HCONRES 111: Recognizing the 25th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, honoring the memory of the victims, recognizing the courage and sacrifice of the heroes who answered the call to serve, acknowledging the charitable organizations that continue to support survivors and victims' families, and reaffirming the enduring commitment of the United States to defend freedom and never forget. ↗Jun 30, 2026
- Sponsored HRES 1350: Expressing support of the goal of celebrating a "National Day of Honor and Respect" in conjunction with "Constitution Day and Citizenship Day". ↗Jun 9, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8312: Fraud Prevention and Accountability Act ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 8290: China Exchange Rate Accountability Act of 2026 ↗Apr 15, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7953: FAIR ACT ↗Mar 17, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7270: Stop Identity Fraud and Identity Theft Act of 2026 ↗Jan 27, 2026
- Sponsored HR 7050: Homeopathic Drug Product Safety, Quality, and Transparency Act ↗Jan 14, 2026
- Sponsored HR 6412: Independence Investment Fund Act ↗Dec 3, 2025
- Sponsored HR 5125: District of Columbia Judicial Nominations Reform Act of 2025 ↗Sep 4, 2025
- Sponsored HR 4863: Fairness for Khobar Act of 2025 ↗Aug 1, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3420: Words Matter Act of 2025 ↗May 15, 2025
- Sponsored HR 3416: Accessibility Constituent Communication Act of 2025 ↗May 14, 2025
Showing the 12 most recent of 401 sponsored measures.
Voting record
- Total votes
- 655
- Yea
- 506
- Nay
- 147
- Present
- 0
- Not voting
- 2
Full voting record
655 votes- HR4795Yea
- HR1501Yea
- HJRES1Yea
- HRES1498Yea
- HR9436Yea
- HR9436Nay
- HRES1490Yea
- HRES1499Nay
- HRES1499Yea
- HR6500Nay
- S32Yea
- S307Yea
- HR8884Yea
- HCONRES89Nay
- HCONRES113Yea
- HR7008Yea
- HR7008Nay
- HR8800Yea
- HR8800Nay
- HR8800Yea
Roll-call votes, 119th Congress. Source: Voteview (voteview.com). Click any vote to verify it independently.
Positions on record
1 position on recordThe record on this issue — recorded votes this official cast, and sourced claims about what they believe. Each is labelled with which it is, because a vote is what someone did and a statement is what they said. Neither is scored, and neither affects the Integrity Score.
- Mass Surveillance, Tracking, and Flock SafetyRecorded vote
On record voting AYE on Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act, an amendment to prohibit warrantless searches of United States persons' communications in the FISA Section 702 database, with exceptions for imminent threats to life or bodily harm, consent searches, and known cybersecurity threat signatures. The amendment failed on a 212 to 212 tie.
SourcesHouse Roll Call Vote 114, 118th Congress, 2nd Session: On Agreeing to the Amendment, Biggs of Arizona Amendment No. 1 to H.R. 7888, the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act. Failed by recorded vote, 212 ayes to 212 noes, April 12, 2024.View position & sources →
Disclosure
A separate measure from the promise scorecard above. It tracks confirmed cases where this official has acted on or championed an issue that already existed when they ran, but which they did not disclose as a priority in their campaign. Each case meets a high evidence bar — three independent sources — and the score is shown alongside the Integrity Score, never merged into it. How this is measured.
No undisclosed priorities on record. This is not a clean-audit claim — it means none have been confirmed for this official.
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