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Pete Sessions

U.S. Representative · TX-17

Voted Yea 11,261 · Nay 5,569 across 17,507 recorded votes.

Where their votes land

Democratic side100 · Voted with Republicans almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average House Democrat: 2
  • Average House Republican: 98

Overall, averaged across 7 values of hand-picked votes that split the parties.

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Where their votes land

Each scale runs between the two parties. The left end is the side most Democrats took on a set of hand-picked roll-call votes, the right end the side most Republicans took, and Pete Sessions's marker sits at the share of those votes they cast on the Republican side. Votes that most of both parties agreed on are left out, because they cannot show which side anyone was on.

Overall

average of 7 values
Democratic side100 · Voted with Republicans almost every timeRepublican side
  • Average House Democrat: 2
  • Average House Republican: 98

0 is the Democratic side of every party-split vote and 100 the Republican side of every one. This is the average of the 7 value positions below that rest on 4 or more votes, each counted once however many votes stand behind it; 3 values below have fewer than 4 votes and are drawn but not counted in it, and 2 values have no votes from Pete Sessions at all.

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  • Clean air, water and public land

    9 of 9 votes
    Stronger limits on pollution and development9 of 9 with RepublicansFewer federal restrictions on land and industry

  • War powers

    9 of 9 votes
    Requiring Congress to authorise military force9 of 9 with RepublicansLeaving the deployment decision with the President

  • Climate and clean energy

    6 of 6 votes
    Cutting greenhouse-gas emissions faster6 of 6 with RepublicansCheaper energy now and fewer federal mandates

  • Civil rights and discrimination

    5 of 5 votes
    Broader federal anti-discrimination protection5 of 5 with RepublicansNarrower federal rules, more left to states

  • Consumer financial protection

    4 of 4 votes
    Stronger federal protection for borrowers4 of 4 with RepublicansLighter regulation of banks and lenders

  • Guns

    4 of 4 votes
    Tighter limits on firearms4 of 4 with RepublicansFewer restrictions on lawful gun owners

  • Immigration

    4 of 4 votes
    More legal protection and processing capacity4 of 4 with RepublicansStricter enforcement and less federal benefit access

  • Reproductive health care

    3 of 3 votes
    Protecting access to abortion, contraception and IVF3 of 3 with RepublicansRestricting abortion and the funding behind it

    Only 3 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

  • Voting and elections

    2 of 2 votes
    Wider access to the ballot2 of 2 with RepublicansTighter eligibility and identity checks

    Only 2 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

  • Workers, wages and care

    2 of 3 votes
    Stronger bargaining rights and higher wage floors2 of 2 with RepublicansMore employer flexibility and lower labour costs

    Only 2 votes — fewer than 4, so this is drawn with a hollow marker and not counted in the overall position.

    Did not vote on one further party-split vote on this value, which is not counted either way.

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Positions count only the votes this person cast, so two people can be placed on different numbers of votes — the count beside each value says how many. How the votes were chosen, and how each party's side is counted.

Where the money came from

Receipts into Pete Sessions’s own campaign committee over the 2025–2026 election cycle, through June 30, 2026.

  • Small individual donors$3,848
  • Large individual donors$494,905
  • PACs$516,176
  • Self-funded$10
  • Other and unclassified$35,298
  • Total receipts$1,050,237
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What these categories mean
Small individual donors
People whose giving stayed under $200 in total. The FEC does not require them to be named, so who they are is genuinely unknown — not merely unlisted.
Large individual donors
People whose giving passed $200, which is the point at which the campaign must report their name, employer and occupation.
PACs
Political action committees — corporate, trade, union and ideological. Money from an organisation rather than from a person.
Self-funded
The candidate's own money: what they gave the campaign outright plus what they lent it.
Other and unclassified
The remainder once every category above is accounted for: federal funds, offsets, interest, and anything this site could not classify. It is a residual, not a kind of donor.

This is money the campaign itself received. It is not everything spent to win the seat. It excludes leadership PACs, and it excludes independent expenditures and other outside spending — money spent to elect or defeat a candidate by groups they may not lawfully coordinate with, which in a contested race can exceed everything shown above. It is not personal income or net worth, which are a separate filing altogether. Figures are as filed with the Federal Election Commission and are only as current as the last report, covering through June 30, 2026; a cycle still running is a partial count. Check this filing on fec.gov.

Personal finances

Separately from the campaign money above, Pete Sessions files a report about their own money: what they own, what they owe, what they earn outside Congress, and every stock trade they make. The law requires it, and every figure in it is a range rather than an amount — which is why the columns below are ranges too.

What they report owning, and owing
  • Reported assets$8.8M to $23M156 lines

Every column is read from $0. The solid height is the total of the low ends of the bands the filer ticked; the pale cap runs on to the total of the high ends, and is the range the form allows — not a margin of error and not a guess. Assets less debts comes to — — a range, and not a net worth: the form does not ask about a personal residence that earns nothing, about congressional salary, or about the exact value of anything.

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What the holdings are
  • Funds and managed accounts60 holdings$3.9M to $8.9M
  • Stocks and stock options53 holdings$1.8M to $4.4M
  • Retirement, pensions and insurance4 holdings$1.2M to $5.5M
  • Property and land5 holdings$950k to $2.0M
  • Bonds, cash and other securities29 holdings$623k to $1.7M
  • Everything else5 holdings$366k to $765k
  • Every group$8.8M to $23M

A slice needs one number and a filer ticks a range, so each arc is its group’s floor — the total of the low ends they ticked — and the figure in the hole is the total of those floors. The band printed beside each group is the real answer, and it is wider than the arc.

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From Pete Sessions’s own financial disclosure, filed under the Ethics in Government Act. Every figure is the band the filer ticked.

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Government experience

ChamberState / DistrictPartyYears
HouseTX-17Republican2025–2027
HouseTX-17Republican2023–2025
HouseTX-17Republican2021–2023
HouseTX-32Republican2017–2019
HouseTX-32Republican2015–2017
HouseTX-32Republican2013–2015
HouseTX-32Republican2011–2013
HouseTX-32Republican2009–2011
HouseTX-32Republican2007–2009
HouseTX-32Republican2005–2007
HouseTX-32Republican2003–2005
HouseTX-5Republican2001–2003
HouseTX-5Republican1999–2001
HouseTX-5Republican1997–1999

A district link opens that seat as the plan in force draws it. Seat numbers outlive the lines beneath them, so for an older term that is not the ground they held.

Their district

The ground Pete Sessions represented, and what was measured on it while they held it. A seat listed twice is a seat whose boundaries were redrawn: the entries describe different areas, not the same area twice.

TX-17 118th–119th Congress · 2023–2026 · these lines

Every indicator and period for TX-17

TX-17 116th Congress · 2021–2023 · these lines

Every indicator and period for TX-17

TX-32 113th–115th Congress · 2013–2019 · these lines

Every indicator and period for TX-32

TX-32 111th–112th Congress · 2009–2013 · these lines

Every indicator and period for TX-32

Figures are the most recent published for each indicator in a period that ended while they held the seat — a figure published after they left describes their successor’s district. Allocated figures are built from the counties overlapping the district and carry the share of its residents the reporting sources covered. These are conditions in the district, not a record of the member. Nothing here is evidence that they caused any of it, or that a different representative would have produced different numbers.

Voting record

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