Pete Sessions

Republican · TX-17 · U.S. House

Bio

Peter Anderson Sessions is an American politician who serves in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 17th congressional district as a member of the Republican Party. He chaired the House Rules Committee from 2013 to 2019 and is a former chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee.

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Record of service

In office: 27.6 years · not continuous, returned 2021
First took office: 1997 (14 terms)
Seniority: 32 of 437 by time served
Age: 71

District offices

Lufkin, TX · 936-219-6450
Nacogdoches, TX · 936-585-7959
Waco, TX · 254-633-4500
Huntsville, TX · 936-755-7770
Round Rock, TX · 202-340-9033

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$3.7M

2020

$9.5M

2021

$9.3M

2022

$10.5M

2023

$9.7M

2024

$10.5M

2025

$16.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $8.8M – $23.4M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $8.8M – $23.4M
Since 2019: +$12.4M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 153 assets reported

Trust One ⇒ MetLife$1.0M – $5.0M

IRA One ⇒ American Beacon The London Company Income Equity Fund Institutional Class (ABCIX$500k – $1.0M

Trust One ⇒ Schwab Prime Advantage Money Fund- Investor Shares (SWVXX)$500k – $1.0M

Trust One ⇒ UBS Muni$500k – $1.0M

ET Invest ⇒ Costco Wholesale Corporation - Common Stock (COST)$250k – $500k

IRA Two ⇒ Capital Intl Core$250k – $500k

IRA Two ⇒ UBS US Quality Growth At Reasonable Price Fund Class P (QGRPX)$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ Residential Real Estate #1$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ Residential Real Estate #2$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ Residential Real Estate #3$250k – $500k

Trust One ⇒ Residential Real Estate #4 - Private Mortgage$250k – $500k

North American Whole Life Insurance$100k – $250k

CS SEP ⇒ Counterpoint Tactical Income Fund Class C (CPCTX)$100k – $250k

CS SEP ⇒ Schwab S&P 500 Index Fund- Select Shares (SWPPX)$100k – $250k

CS SEP ⇒ US Bank #1$100k – $250k

CS SEP ⇒ US bank #1$100k – $250k

CS SEP ⇒ Vanguard Information Tech ETF (VGT)$100k – $250k

FMS ⇒ TOMBALL TX SL Assmnt Bond$100k – $250k

IRA One ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$100k – $250k

IRA Two ⇒ US Interm Corp Bond$100k – $250k

IRA Two ⇒ Virtus KAR Small-Mid Cap Core Fund Class I (VKSIX)$100k – $250k

SRH Hosp ⇒ SRH Hosp$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Alphabet Inc. - Class C Capital Stock (GOOG)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ American Beacon The London Company Income Equity Fund Institutional Class (ABC$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Apple Inc. (AAPL)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Capital Intl$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Costco Wholesale Corporation - Common Stock (COST)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ London Co LCV$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ NVIDIA Corporation - Common Stock (NVDA)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Residential Real Estate #5 - Private Mortgage$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ UBS US Quality Growth At Reasonable Price Fund Class P (QGRPX)$100k – $250k

Trust One ⇒ Virtus KAR Small-Mid Cap Core Fund Class I (VKSIX)$100k – $250k

BWX Technologies, Inc. (BWXT)$50k – $100k

Microsoft Corporation (MSFT)$50k – $100k

New York Whole Life Insurance$50k – $100k

US Bank #2$50k – $100k

US bank #2$50k – $100k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.82

Healthcare

R+0.66

Immigration & Border

R+0.96

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.97

Environment & Energy

R+0.83

Crime & Policing

R+0.89

Defense & Veterans

R+0.86

Economy & Labor

R+0.84

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.76

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.46

Education

R+0.88

Government & Democracy

R+0.91

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Pete Sessions's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

90%Closest

62%

26%

16%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

13%

Communist Party USA

11%

On the political map

Pete Sessions (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Sessionssits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Capital Markets National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Government Operations (Chairman)Health Care and Financial Services

Most and least aligned members

Treating Sessions's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.