Pete Sessions
2021 - Present
2025
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Pete Sessions (Republican Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Texas' 17th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2021. His current term ends on January 3, 2025.
Sessions (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Texas' 17th Congressional District. He won in the general election on November 5, 2024.
On October 20, 2023, Sessions announced he was running to replace Kevin McCarthy (R) as speaker of the U.S. House in the 118th Congress. Sessions lost the first round of nomination voting on October 24, 2023.[1]
Biography
Pete Sessions was born and lives in Waco, Texas.[2] Sessions earned a B.S. from Southwestern University in 1978. Sessions' career experience includes working as an executive with AT&T.[2][3][4]
Committee assignments
U.S. House
2023-2024
Sessions was assigned to the following committees:[Source]
- Committee on Financial Services
- Capital Markets
- Committee on Oversight and Accountability
- Government Operations and the Federal Workforce, Chairman
- National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs
2021-2022
Sessions was assigned to the following committees:[Source]
- Committee on Oversight and Accountability
- Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Ranking Member
- Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
- Investigations and Oversight
- Research and Technology
2017-2018
At the beginning of the 115th Congress, Sessions was assigned to the following committees:[5]
2015-2016
Sessions served on the following committees:[6]
- Rules Committee
- Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House
2013-2014
Sessions served on the following committees:[7]
- Committee on Rules Chair
- Subcommittee on Rules and Organization of the House
2011-2012
Sessions was a member of the following House committees:[2]
- House Committee on Rules Vice chair
- Rules Subcommittee on Legislative and Budget Process Chairman
Elections
2024
See also: Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2024
Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Republican primary)
Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2024 (March 5 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 17
Incumbent Pete Sessions defeated Mark Lorenzen in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 17 on November 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions (R) | 66.8 | 189,843 | |
| Mark Lorenzen (D) | 33.2 | 94,237 | ||
| Total votes: 284,080 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Clyde Garland (L)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
Mark Lorenzen advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mark Lorenzen | 100.0 | 13,925 | |
| Total votes: 13,925 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
Incumbent Pete Sessions defeated Joseph T. Langone in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 5, 2024.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions | 84.9 | 67,798 | |
| Joseph T. Langone | 15.1 | 12,052 | ||
| Total votes: 79,850 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 17
Clyde Garland advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 23, 2024.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ |  | Clyde Garland (L) |
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Endorsements
Sessions received the following endorsements.
- Former President Donald Trump (R)
Pledges
Sessions signed the following pledges.
2022
See also: Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2022
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 17
Incumbent Pete Sessions defeated Mary Jo Woods in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 17 on November 8, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions (R) | 66.5 | 144,408 | |
| Mary Jo Woods (D) | 33.5 | 72,801 | ||
| Total votes: 217,209 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Jake Armstrong (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
Mary Jo Woods advanced from the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Mary Jo Woods | 100.0 | 17,085 | |
| Total votes: 17,085 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
Incumbent Pete Sessions defeated Jason Nelson, Paulette Carson, and Robert Rosenberger in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 1, 2022.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions | 69.9 | 48,222 | |
| Jason Nelson | 12.1 | 8,371 | ||
| Paulette Carson | 10.5 | 7,246 | ||
| Robert Rosenberger | 7.4 | 5,100 | ||
| Total votes: 68,939 | ||||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Willie Blackmon (R)
2020
See also: Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2020
Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Republican primary)
Texas' 17th Congressional District election, 2020 (March 3 Democratic primary)
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 17
Pete Sessions defeated Rick Kennedy and Ted Brown in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 17 on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions (R) | 55.9 | 171,390 | |
| Rick Kennedy (D) | 40.9 | 125,565 | ||
| Ted Brown (L) | 3.2 | 9,918 | ||
| Total votes: 306,873 | ||||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 17
Rick Kennedy defeated David Jaramillo in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 17 on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rick Kennedy | 57.3 | 13,496 | |
| David Jaramillo | 42.7 | 10,054 | ||
| Total votes: 23,550 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Republican primary runoff election
Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 17
Pete Sessions defeated Renee Swann in the Republican primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 17 on July 14, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions | 53.5 | 18,524 | |
| Renee Swann | 46.5 | 16,096 | ||
| Total votes: 34,620 (100.00% precincts reporting) | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
Rick Kennedy and David Jaramillo advanced to a runoff. They defeated William Foster III in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Rick Kennedy | 47.9 | 22,148 | |
| ✔ | David Jaramillo | 35.0 | 16,170 | |
| William Foster III | 17.1 | 7,887 | ||
| Total votes: 46,205 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17
The following candidates ran in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions | 31.6 | 21,667 | |
| ✔ | Renee Swann | 19.0 | 13,047 | |
| George Hindman | 18.1 | 12,405 | ||
| Elianor Vessali | 9.2 | 6,283 | ||
| Scott Bland | 7.2 | 4,947 | |
| Trent Sutton | 5.2 | 3,593 | ||
| Todd Kent | 3.5 | 2,367 | ||
| Kristen Alamo Rowin | 1.7 | 1,183 | ||
| Laurie Godfrey McReynolds | 1.6 | 1,105 | ||
| David Saucedo | 1.4 | 975 | |
| Jeffrey Oppenheim (Unofficially withdrew) | 0.7 | 483 | |
| Ahmad Adnan | 0.7 | 477 | ||
| Total votes: 68,532 | ||||
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Libertarian convention
Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 17
Ted Brown advanced from the Libertarian convention for U.S. House Texas District 17 on March 21, 2020.
Candidate | ||
| ✔ | Ted Brown (L) | |
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2018
General election
General election for U.S. House Texas District 32
Colin Allred defeated incumbent Pete Sessions and Melina Baker in the general election for U.S. House Texas District 32 on November 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Colin Allred (D) | 52.3 | 144,067 | |
| Pete Sessions (R) | 45.8 | 126,101 | ||
| Melina Baker (L) | 2.0 | 5,452 | ||
| Total votes: 275,620 | ||||
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Democratic primary runoff election
Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 32
Colin Allred defeated Lillian Salerno in the Democratic primary runoff for U.S. House Texas District 32 on May 22, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Colin Allred | 69.5 | 15,658 | |
| Lillian Salerno | 30.5 | 6,874 | ||
| Total votes: 22,532 | ||||
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Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 32
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. House Texas District 32 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Colin Allred | 38.5 | 15,442 | |
| ✔ | Lillian Salerno | 18.3 | 7,343 | |
| Brett Shipp | 16.3 | 6,550 | ||
| Edward Meier | 13.7 | 5,474 | ||
| George Rodriguez | 7.6 | 3,029 | ||
| Ronald William Marshall | 3.2 | 1,301 | |
| Todd Maternowski | 2.4 | 945 | ||
| Total votes: 40,084 | ||||
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Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 32
Incumbent Pete Sessions defeated Paul Brown in the Republican primary for U.S. House Texas District 32 on March 6, 2018.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | Pete Sessions | 79.3 | 32,784 | |
| Paul Brown | 20.7 | 8,575 | ||
| Total votes: 41,359 | ||||
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2016
Heading into the election, Ballotpedia rated this race as safely Republican. Incumbent Pete Sessions (R) defeated Ed Rankin (L) and Gary Stuard (G) in the general election on November 8, 2016. Sessions defeated Paul Brown, Russ Ramsland and Cherie Myint Roughneen in the Republican primary on March 1, 2016. No Democratic candidates filed to run in the race.[8][9]
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican |  Pete Sessions Incumbent |
71.1% | 162,868 | |
| Libertarian | Ed Rankin | 19% | 43,490 | |
| Green | Gary Stuard | 10% | 22,813 | |
| Total Votes | 229,171 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pete Sessions Incumbent |
61.4% | 49,813 | ||
| Russ Ramsland | 23.7% | 19,203 | ||
| Paul Brown | 11.7% | 9,488 | ||
| Cherie Myint Roughneen | 3.2% | 2,601 | ||
| Total Votes | 81,105 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State |
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2014
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Pete Sessions Incumbent |
61.8% | 96,495 | |
| Democratic | Frank Perez | 35.4% | 55,325 | |
| Libertarian | Ed Rankin | 2.7% | 4,276 | |
| Total Votes | 156,096 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State | ||||
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Pete Sessions Incumbent |
63.6% | 28,981 | ||
| Katrina Pierson | 36.4% | 16,574 | ||
| Total Votes | 45,555 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State |
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2012
| Party | Candidate | Vote % | Votes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Republican | Pete Sessions Incumbent |
58.3% | 146,653 | |
| Democratic | Katherine Savers McGovern | 39.5% | 99,288 | |
| Libertarian | Seth Hollist | 2.3% | 5,695 | |
| Total Votes | 251,636 | |||
| Source: Texas Secretary of State "Official Election Results, 2012 General Election" | ||||
Full history
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2010 On November 2, 2010, Pete Sessions won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Grier Raggio (D) and John Jay Myers (L) in the general election.[10]
2008 On November 4, 2008, Pete Sessions won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Eric Roberson (D) and Alex Bischoff (L) in the general election.[11]
2006 On November 7, 2006, Pete Sessions won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Will Pryor (D) and John Hawley (L) in the general election.[12]
2004 On November 2, 2004, Pete Sessions won re-election to the United States House. He defeated Martin Frost (D) and Michael David Needleman (L) in the general election.[13]
2002 On November 5, 2002, Pete Sessions won election to the United States House. He defeated Pauline Dixon (D), Steve Martin (L) and Carla Hubbell (G) in the general election.[14]
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Campaign themes
2024
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Pete Sessions did not complete Ballotpedia's 2024 Candidate Connection survey.
2022
Pete Sessions did not complete Ballotpedia's 2022 Candidate Connection survey.
2020
Pete Sessions did not complete Ballotpedia's 2020 Candidate Connection survey.
Campaign website
Sessions' campaign website stated the following:
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A Waco native and faithful Christian, Pete Sessions is a pro-life conservative who once represented much of our congressional district. In Congress, Pete Sessions defended our gun rights, protected our religious liberty, and stood with President Trump to build the border wall. Pete was also part of the House Republican team in the late 1990s that balanced the budget four years in a row. PETE SESSIONS ON IMMIGRATION AND HIS PLAN TO HELP PRESIDENT TRUMP STOP WELFARE ABUSE BY LEGAL IMMIGRANTS President Trump is trying to implement a new rule to reduce the number of non-citizens on welfare. Pete Sessions will fight to put the Trump Public Charge Rule into law… ensuring its enforcement in the future. Click here to read more. PROVEN CONSERVATIVE PRINCIPLES PRO-SECOND AMENDMENT Pete is a lifetime member of the Texas Rifle Association and maintained a solid “A” rating from the NRA for his votes in Congress. He is endorsed by the National Rifle Association Political Victory Fund. PRO-FAMILY Last year, House Democrats passed a bill that would deny rights of parents to stop their minor children obtaining sex-change operations or hormone treatments. Curricula in many school districts are teaching children that transgender lifestyles are “normal.” Pete will stop laws that take away parental rights. PRO-LIFE While in Congress, Pete had a 100% lifetime voting record with National Right to Life. PRO-FARMER AND RANCHER Texas Farm Bureau gave Pete a 100% lifetime voting record. PROVEN CONSERVATIVE LEADERSHIP While in Congress, Pete had the following lifetime voting records: ✔ National Federation of Independent Business: 100% ✔ Texas Farm Bureau: 100% ✔ National Right to Life: 100% ✔ NumbersUSA: “A” Rating ✔ National Rifle Association: “A” Rating ✔ American Conservative Union: 94% ✔ Spirit of Enterprise, Chamber of Commerce Award: 91% From 2017 through 2018, Pete supported President Trump 98% of the time. Pete wants to go back to Congress to complete some unfinished business. 1. Lead Republicans in re-taking the majority and removing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker 2. Help President Trump finish building the wall and reform our immigration policies 3. Balance the budget without any new tax increases Pete Sessions is asking for your vote to complete the “unfinished” business.[15] |
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| —Pete Sessions[16] | ||
2018
Campaign website
Sessions' campaign website stated the following:
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Pete Sessions Plan for Securing Our Border and Strengthening Interior Enforcement Our illegal immigration and border security problems are among the greatest challenges facing our country today. The Obama Administration’s continued refusal to enforce our nation’s current laws has created a crisis on our border, eroded our nation’s rule of law, and put the safety and security of Americans across the nation in jeopardy. I have always adamantly opposed illegal immigration, blanket amnesty, or any other reward to those who have intentionally and knowingly broken our nation’s immigration laws. Since the onset of President Obama’s lawless executive actions, I have tirelessly worked to fight against the administration’s unlawful, unwise, and unconstitutional executive amnesty plan. As a proud Texan, I understand the need to reform our broken immigration system. An effective immigration plan must first secure our borders, strengthen interior enforcement, protect our nation’s rule of law, and prosecute and deport criminal aliens in the United States. In this Congress, I am proud to be working with Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL) to introduce the strictest interior enforcement bill in the House that will protect American lives from criminal alien violence. In response to the policies of sanctuary cities such as San Francisco, and the rise of illegal aliens committing criminal activities, on July 31, 2015, I joined Senator Sessions in introducing the House companion to the Protecting American Lives Act. My legislation closes the most dangerous immigration enforcement loopholes by putting an end to sanctuary cities and establishing a mandatory minimum jail time for illegal immigrants. The future of our country depends on the actions we take today and the American people are counting on us to act to protect our country and secure our future. North Texans, and all Americans, deserve nothing less. Pete Sessions Plan to Restore our Nation’s Healthcare System In 2010, Democrats defied the will of the American people and rammed a 2,700 page heath care bill through Congress that sought to take over our entire health care system. From day one, I have led the fight in the House to stop the ObamaCare train wreck, beginning when it came to the House Rules Committee in March of 2010. North Texas families and businesses have been forced to face the damaging effects of ObamaCare. Employers have cut full-time employees to part-time and dropped employees from their preferred healthcare plan. Health insurance premiums are still skyrocketing and out of pocket costs are growing astronomically. In April the largest health insurance provider United Healthcare announced that it was abandoning ObamaCare and now Aetna, the the third-largest health insurer in the US, will also cease to expand its ObamaCare offerings. Additionally, even though the president promised Americans that if they liked their health care plan, they could keep their health care plan, he knew that this was not the case. In short, the Democrats’ empty promises about their massive health care bill have become a frightening reality for the American people. ObamaCare is discriminatory, unaffordable, and unsustainable. That is why for the last 18 months I have been working on a solution with my friend in the Senate, Dr. Bill Cassidy from Louisiana. In May we introduced H.R. 5284, The World’s Greatest Healthcare Plan, a sustainable, non-discriminatory alternative to the President’s onerous law. It empowers all Americans to make their own healthcare decisions, save their hard-earned money in an account that is not use-it-or-lose-it, and ensures that not only single person will ever be coerced onto ObamaCare. The basis of our bill creates a $2,500 tax credit for every American citizen as well as a $1,500 tax credit per dependent minor. This tax credit provides individuals and families with the freedom to use their own dollars to plan and save for their health care futures by assigning their credit to an employer, transferring it to a Roth Health Savings Account, or advancing it for annual distribution. Our plan takes a unique, free-market based approach to healthcare that unleashes doctors, patients, and all individuals from the burdens of ObamaCare, and puts Americans back in charge of their own healthcare. Pete Sessions Plan for Tax Reform Our rapidly growing national debt is one of the most pressing issues facing the future of our great country. The United States cannot continue to run huge federal budget deficits. Financing federal overspending through continued borrowing threatens to drown Americans in high taxes and heavy debt leading to a less prosperous future. Since 1970, the annual federal budget has been balanced during only one four-year period and the federal deficit has climbed from $400 billion in 1970 to over $16 trillion today. If we continue on our current path, in 10 years 95% of all federal tax revenues will be consumed by payments of interest on the national debt and mandatory programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. This will leave only 5% of our annual tax revenue available for funding national defense and other essential functions of the government. Our national debt-to-GDP ratio rivals that of countries like Ireland, Portugal and Greece, which are facing sovereign debt crises. By the end of this decade, the federal deficit will climb to (and remain at) no less than 100% of our GDP. According to economists, once the nation’s debt exceeds 90% of GDP, it begins to stifle economic growth. President Obama has set the wrong kind of new record. The national debt has increased faster under his administration than under any other president in history. This runaway government spending paralyzes the job market, erodes confidence among America’s employers and has caused the worst economic recovery since the Great Depression. Thanks to the insistence of House Republicans, discretionary spending in 2016 has been pushed back all the way to 2008 levels. Consistent with the governing philosophy we shared with the American people when we won back the House in a historic victory in 2010, our spending victories have driven the annual deficit from $1.412 trillion in 2009 to $544 billion in FY2016. And we’ve achieved this significant deficit reduction while at the same time enacting $620 billion in permanent tax relief, including a five year extension to bonus depreciation. Because our current path threatens our economy and is unsustainable, I have joined House Republicans in putting forward a pro-growth tax reform plan that fundamentally changes our tax policy. By lowering rates, increasing the standard deduction, streamlining seven tax brackets into three and eliminating a host of special-interest provisions, our plan simplifies the tax code dramatically for families and individuals. And by providing incentives for savings and investment, it fosters economic growth and job creation while ensuring that Americans spend far less time and money filing their taxes. Under our plan, small businesses will no longer be taxed under the individual side of the code. Instead, they’ll benefit from a critical distinction between wage and business income. This allows for a lower tax rate for small businesses of 25%—the lowest tax rate on pass-through income since before World War II. Job creators of all sizes will also be able to take advantage of full and immediate expensing on investments in new equipment and technology—another historic first. This zero tax rate on new business investment is a vast departure from today’s complex depreciation rules, which direct businesses to write off purchases over long and often arbitrary periods of time. It also cuts America’s 35% corporate income-tax rate—the highest in the industrialized world—to a flat 20%. In a change designed to strengthen our global competitiveness, American job creators will no longer be taxed both abroad and at home on the same dollar of income. There will be a zero tax rate on dividends brought home to America. The current IRS will not exist, but will be redesigned into three distinct service units—one staffed with expertise on business taxation, and another focused on state-of-the art customer service to families and individuals. A third, independent unit will be geared toward helping North Texans quickly resolve their unique tax challenges—in effect, a small-claims court for tax disputes so individuals and small businesses don’t spend thousands of dollars resolving minor tax issues. I am dedicated to delivering a tax code for North Texans that truly works for them—one that is built on the principles of growth, simplicity, fairness. Reducing Regulatory Burdens America’s job creators are being buried under a regulatory burden estimated at over $1.75 trillion. Recent reports indicate that each U.S. household pays a hidden regulatory tax of $15,586 per year. Major rules- those affecting the economy by $100 million or more per year- are at the heart of the problem. This is why I am a strong supporter of the REINS Act. This legislation would require specific congressional approval for any major rule before it can be implemented. While this is an important step in the right direction, there is more than can, and should, be done and I will continue to fight to roll back excessive red tape and get the government out of the free marketplace. We must ensure that the rules governing the way we live and work reflect what is best for our state and country today- not what unaccountable, unelected bureaucrats think is best. And if any regulations aren’t doing right on behalf of the American people, they should be cleared off the books. Pete Sessions Plan for Energy Independence Energy security is a matter of national security. I support an all-of-the-above energy strategy that stimulates innovation, development, and security. Reliable energy sources allow the entrepreneurial spirit of Texans to thrive and promotes freedom from unstable regions often hostile to the values of America. I believe the free market should choose winners and losers in the marketplace, not radical environmentalist who have constructed this Administration’s liberal green energy agenda. There are four key reforms that I’ve tirelessly advocated in the halls of Congress and neighborhoods in North Texas: Lifting the Crude Oil Ban In a historic conservative victory at the end of 2015, House Republicans successfully lifted the 40-year-old ban on crude oil exports. By repealing this antiquated law, we will create an estimated 1 million American jobs in nearly all 50 states and add $170 billion annually to our GDP. This was an important victory for Texas and unleashed the full potential of our already vibrant Texas energy economy. Reining in the EPA The EPA has been relentless in their war against the American job creator. Political agendas have dictated misguided regulatory initiatives and crushed businesses large and small. From abusive “sue and settle” litigation practices to disregard for private property rights, the EPA has proved time and again that they cannot be trusted to act in the best interest of Texas, or the nation. In the past year I have supported measures to gut the EPA by $452 million – holding the agency to its lowest funding levels since 2008 and forcing them to scale back $138 million of onerous regulatory programs. In addition I have also supported and fought for numerous legislative victories that will drive down energy prices, create American jobs, and reinvigorate our energy revolution. Here are a few of those victories: Prohibiting EPA from implementing new greenhouse gas regulations for new or existing power plants; Eliminating funding for greenhouse gas “New Source Performance Standards”; Prohibiting EPA implementation of WOTUS; Prohibiting EPA from changing the definition of “fill materials”; Prohibitions on new methane requirements; Prohibiting the regulation of the lead content of ammunition and fishing tackle; and Prohibitions on harmful changes to the “stream buffer rule” Promoting Energy Efficiency Consumers and taxpayers benefit when our energy use is effective and free of government mandates. Reducing government waste, prioritizing existing energy efficiency programs, and reducing burdensome federal efficiency mandates will unleash private sector technologies and spur innovation. Establishing voluntary programs, improving data gathering, and making the federal government use existing best practices related to energy usage will ultimately benefit Texans and all Americans. We need to replace mandates with incentives and regulation with innovation. Maximizing our Natural Resources Texas is home to a vast array of natural resources. We have the responsibility to be good stewards of these resources and balance environmental concerns with the needs of Texans. Technology has developed far beyond what we ever believed possible, and as a result we can access and develop our resources including coal, nuclear, oil, natural gas, solar, and wind. I support opening the Outer Continental Shelf, the Arctic National Wildlife Reserve, and federally owned land for exploration and development. The Keystone XL Pipeline offers the potential of thousands of jobs, many to Texas families, yet this Administration continues to pile on regulatory and permitting barriers. This President would rather subsidize his green energy favorites rather than agree to Republican policies that will bring economic prosperity and independence to our state and nation. Pete Sessions Plan for Restoring America’s Future Washington has a spending problem that has placed our nation on an unsustainable path of trillion dollar deficits and a $17 trillion national debt. That is why I have consistently voted to limit federal spending, reform entitlement programs, and am a co-sponsor of a bill that calls for the passage of the balanced budget amendment. Thanks to the Republican majority in the House, we have been able to hold the line of federal spending, putting total expenditures on a slightly downward path. Declines of total federal expenditures for the past two fiscal years are the first back-to-back annual spending reductions since the Korean War. While these reductions in spending are important, we still have a long way to go. In 2009 and 2010, when Democrats had control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate, the federal government went on a spending binge. Through an $831 billion stimulus package, ObamaCare, and Dodd-Frank, Democrats dedicated themselves to more federal spending and increased government interference in the private sector. In 2009, the federal government spent $3.77 trillion and ran a $1.5 trillion deficit, both of which were the largest of all time. The federal government spent $3.67 trillion in 2010 and $3.75 trillion in 2011 and added an additional $2.7 trillion to the national debt. In 2010, I led the effort by Republicans to take back the House and halt this spending spree. Under my leadership as Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, Republicans elected 89 freshman Members of Congress and switched 63 Democrat-held seats to the Republican column. Republicans quickly went to work reining in federal spending after removing Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the House. To begin, House Republicans forced a virtual freeze in the growth of federal spending. Despite opposition from the Democrat-controlled Senate and the White House, total spending by the federal government is now growing by the slowest amount annually in over sixty years. Since Republicans took back control of the House, I have voted for the Budget Control Act of 2011, which cut nearly one trillion in spending over a decade and led to another $1.2 trillion in sequester cuts, and the “Cut, Cap, and Balance Act,” which would have cut discretionary spending by an additional $111 billion, reduced mandatory spending by $51 billion, and capped federal spending at 20% of GDP. I was also a cosponsor of a proposal for a balance budget amendment to the Constitution of the United States. While our annual spending is still too high, thanks to House Republicans the federal government is spending $317 billion a year less than it was in 2009. In this Congress, I voted for Rep. Paul Ryan’s Path to Prosperity Budget, which would have balanced the budget within 10 years, reformed the tax code, and taken our country off a path of fiscal insolvency and onto a path towards fiscal success. This budget would also take smart and responsible steps to reform our entitlement programs. When the Democrat-controlled Senate refused to pass a budget, I backed “No Budget, No Pay” legislation that forced Senate Democrats to pass a budget or else have their pay withheld. While the new Republican majority has succeeded in capping federal spending, Congress must continue to take even more steps to control unsustainable deficits, which, if left unchecked, will place too much of a burden on future generations of Americans. That is why I remain fully committed to taking the important steps toward fiscal reform and additional spending cuts in order to get our fiscal house in order. Since losing their majority, House Democrats, led by Nancy Pelosi, have argued for alternative spending plans that would have added trillions to the national debt. Their plan is no plan at all. In every situation and in every piece of legislation brought to the House floor (except for national defense), their “solution” is to spend more taxpayer money and move our nation closer to bankruptcy. Nancy Pelosi today makes the absurd claim that “the cupboard is bare” for any additional cuts in federal spending. In the meantime, thanks to House Republicans and the leadership of Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, the General Accounting Office has documented that the federal government could save $125 billion (billion!) if we stopped making public assistance payments to Americans who are not eligible under the law. Food stamp fraud amounts to billions of dollars every year and the Social Security Disability system appears to have been hijacked by trial attorneys who successfully obtain benefits for Americans who are not disabled and do not deserve disability payments. There is a moral component to the Democrats’ constant argument for more government spending which cannot go unaddressed. If we all know that it is wrong to steal, then how can we condone stealing from future generations? If left unchecked, that is exactly what we are doing, led by this generation of Democrats and the Obama administration. The unsustainability of today’s national debt and federal unfunded obligations is reaching a critical tipping point. Financial experts such as Mary Meeker and Stan Druckenmiller have documented that if the United States were a business, we would be broke due to our future obligated payments on the debt. Today’s entitlement programs are so over-committed that in order to meet the current payouts obligated to the Baby-Boomer generation, our children may have to pay as much as 80 percent of their incomes in taxes if the U.S. is ever to balance its budget. What kind of future are we passing on to our children if we have so loaded down their lives to burdensome debt? This scenario of one irresponsible political class obligating future generations to debt, which they cannot afford, has been recently played out in Greece, Spain and, soon, Italy and France. In all of those countries, those younger than 30 are in despair with no real prospects for their most productive years because their countries are bankrupt. Their only option is to be on welfare for the rest of their lives or leave the nation of their birth. The summary of Druckenmiller and Meeker’s analysis are the same as what Republicans, led by Paul Ryan on the budget, have made for years on the House floor. The federal government cannot continue to spend hundreds of billions more than it receives in taxes every year. We cannot burden future generations with trillions of dollars of debt and economic history shows that economies whose central governments owe as much as the economy produces in annual output are destined to permanently slow job growth. In cases where governments never bring their budget deficits into balance, they run the risk of sudden and dramatic currency devaluations, which has occurred in Argentina, Mexico and, likely soon, Venezuela. In all of these cases, savings of working families were obliterated by their governments. I am committed to avoiding this same fate for my children and yours. The only responsible step is to bring federal spending under control by limiting future increases, immediately reforming entitlement programs, and quickly eradicating the federal budget with its current unacceptable levels of waste, fraud, and abuse. |
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2016
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Key votes
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Key votes: 118th Congress, 2023
The 118th United States Congress began on January 3, 2023, at which point Republicans held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-212), and Democrats held the majority in the U.S. Senate (51-49). Joe Biden (D) was the president and Kamala Harris (D) was the vice president. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.
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Key votes: 117th Congress, 2021-2023The 117th United States Congress began on January 3, 2021 and ended on January 3, 2023. At the start of the session, Democrats held the majority in the U.S. House of Representatives (222-213), and the U.S. Senate had a 50-50 makeup. Democrats assumed control of the Senate on January 20, 2021, when President Joe Biden (D) and Vice President Kamala Harris (D), who acted as a tie-breaking vote in the chamber, assumed office. We identified the key votes below using Congress' top-viewed bills list and through marquee coverage of certain votes on Ballotpedia.
Key votes: 115th Congress, 2017-2018
114th Congress The first session of the 114th Congress enacted into law six out of the 2,616 introduced bills (0.2 percent). Comparatively, the 113th Congress had 1.3 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the first session. In the second session, the 114th Congress enacted 133 out of 3,159 introduced bills (4.2 percent). Comparatively, the 113th Congress had 7.0 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.[93][94] For more information pertaining to Sessions's voting record in the 114th Congress, please see the below sections.[95] Economic and fiscalTrade Act of 2015Trade adjustment assistance Defense spending authorization
2016 Budget proposal
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Foreign AffairsIran nuclear deal
Export-Import Bank
DomesticUSA FREEDOM Act of 2015
Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act
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Immigration
113th CongressThe second session of the 113th Congress enacted into law 224 out of the 3215 introduced bills (7 percent). Comparatively, the 112th Congress had 4.2 percent of introduced bills enacted into law in the second session.[136] For more information pertaining to Sessions's voting record in the 113th Congress, please see the below sections.[137] National securityNDAA
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CISPA (2013)
EconomyFarm bill
2014 Budget
Government shutdown
Sessions was quoted with saying, "Look, we're not French. We don't surrender." when pressed by a man to support a clean CR.[152] Federal Pay Adjustment Act
ImmigrationMorton Memos Prohibition
HealthcareHealthcare Reform Rules
Social issuesAbortion
Government affairsHR 676
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Noteworthy events
Electoral vote certification on January 6-7, 2021
Congress convened a joint session on January 6-7, 2021, to count electoral votes by state and confirm the results of the 2020 presidential election. Sessions voted against certifying the electoral votes from Arizona and Pennsylvania. The House rejected both objections by a vote of 121-303 for Arizona and 138-282 for Pennsylvania.
Campaign finance summary
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Personal Gain Index
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- See also: Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress)
The Personal Gain Index (U.S. Congress) is a two-part measurement that illustrates the extent to which members of the U.S. Congress have prospered during their tenure as public servants.
It consists of two different metrics:
PGI: Change in net worth
Based on congressional financial disclosure forms and calculations made available by OpenSecrets.org, Sessions' net worth as of 2012 was estimated between $735,060 and $2,561,999. That averages to $1,648,529, which is lower than the average net worth of Republican representatives in 2012 of $7,614,097.96. Sessions ranked as the 167th most wealthy representative in 2012.[162] Between 2004 and 2012, Sessions' calculated net worth[163] increased by an average of 6 percent per year. Between 2004 and 2012, the average annual percentage increase for a member of Congress was 15.4 percent.[164]
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| 2004 | $1,087,230 |
| 2012 | $1,648,529 |
| Growth from 2004 to 2012: | 52% |
| Average annual growth: | 6%[165] |
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The data used to calculate changes in net worth may include changes resulting from assets gained through marriage, inheritance, changes in family estates and/or trusts, changes in family business ownership, and many other variables unrelated to a member's behavior in Congress.
PGI: Donation Concentration Metric
Filings required by the Federal Election Commission report on the industries that give to each candidate. Using campaign filings and information calculated by OpenSecrets.org, Ballotpedia calculated the percentage of donations by industry received by each incumbent over the course of his or her career (or 1989 and later, if elected prior to 1988). In the 113th Congress, Sessions is the Chair of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Rules. Sessions received the most donations from individuals and PACs employed by the Health Professionals industry.
From 1991-2014, 25.4 percent of Sessions' career contributions came from the top five industries as listed below.[167]
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| Total Raised | $19,537,579 |
| Total Spent | $18,566,625 |
| Chair of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Rules | |
| Top five industries that contributed to campaign committee | |
| Health Professionals | $1,464,812 |
| Oil & Gas | $972,072 |
| Lawyers/Law Firms | $885,581 |
| Misc Finance | $842,464 |
| Securities & Investment | $797,684 |
| % total in top industry | 7.5% |
| % total in top two industries | 12.47% |
| % total in top five industries | 25.4% |
Analysis
Ideology and leadership
Based on an analysis of bill sponsorship by GovTrack, Sessions was a rank-and-file Republican as of July 2014. This was the same rating Sessions received in June 2013.[168]
Like-minded colleagues
The website OpenCongress tracks the voting records of each member to determine with whom he or she votes most and least often. The results include a member from each party.[169]
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Lifetime voting record
According to the website GovTrack, Sessions missed 564 of 12,699 roll call votes from January 1997 to September 2015. This amounted to 4.4 percent, which was higher than the median of 2.2 percent among representatives as of September 2015.[170]
Congressional staff salaries
The website Legistorm compiles staff salary information for members of Congress. Sessions paid his congressional staff a total of $992,714 in 2011. Overall, Texas ranked 27th in average salary for representative staff. The average U.S. House of Representatives congressional staff was paid $954,912.20 in fiscal year 2011.[171]
National Journal vote ratings
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Each year National Journal publishes an analysis of how liberally or conservatively each member of Congress voted in the previous year. Click the link above for the full ratings of all members of Congress.
2013
Sessions ranked 117th in the conservative rankings in 2013.[172]
2012
Sessions ranked 30th in the conservative rankings among members of the U.S. House.[173]
2011
Sessions was tied with three other members of the U.S. House of Representatives, ranking 11th in the conservative rankings among members of the U.S. House.[174]
Voting with party
The website OpenCongress tracks how often members of Congress vote with the majority of the chamber caucus.
2014
Sessions voted with the Republican Party 95.5 percent of the time, which ranked 59th among the 234 House Republican members as of July 2014.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
2013
Sessions voted with the Republican Party 98.2 percent of the time, which ranked 55th among the 233 House Republican members as of June 2013.Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; invalid names, e.g. too many
Personal
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Sessions lives in Dallas, TX, and is active in the charities Adopt-A-Shoreline and Special Olympics.[2]
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2024 Elections
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Footnotes
- ↑ Twitter, "Olivia Beavers", accessed October 24, 2023
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Representative Pete Sessions, "About," accessed April 21, 2021
- ↑ Pete Sessions 2020 campaign website, "About," accessed February 5, 2020
- ↑ Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, "SESSIONS, Pete, (1955 - )," accessed February 5, 2015
- ↑ U.S. House Clerk, "Official Alphabetical List of the House of Representatives of the United States One Hundred Fifteenth Congress," accessed February 2, 2017
- ↑ U.S. House of Representatives, Office of the Clerk, "Committee Information," accessed February 20, 2015
- ↑ CQ.com, "House Committee Rosters for the 113th Congress," accessed March 3, 2013
- ↑ Texas Secretary of State, "2016 March Primary Election Candidate Filings by County," accessed December 15, 2015
- ↑ The New York Times, "Texas Primary Results," March 1, 2016
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2010," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 4, 2008," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 7, 2006," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 2, 2004," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ U.S. Congress House Clerk, "Statistics of the Congressional Election of November 5, 2002," accessed March 28, 2013
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 15.2 15.3 Note: This text is quoted verbatim from the original source. Any inconsistencies are attributable to the original source.
- ↑ Pete Sessions 2020 campaign website, "Issues," accessed April 7, 2020
- ↑ Pete Sessions for Congress, “Issues,” accessed September 17, 2018
- ↑ Campaign website, "Issues," accessed January 28, 2014
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.2670 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.185 - To terminate the requirement imposed by the Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for proof of COVID-19 vaccination for foreign travelers, and for other purposes." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.2811 - Limit, Save, Grow Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.Con.Res.9 - Denouncing the horrors of socialism." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.1 - Lower Energy Costs Act," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.30 - Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to 'Prudence and Loyalty in Selecting Plan Investments and Exercising Shareholder Rights'." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.J.Res.7 - Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on March 13, 2020." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3746 - Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "Roll Call 20," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant.," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "Roll Call 527," accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.Res.757 - Declaring the office of Speaker of the House of Representatives to be vacant." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.Res.878 - Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the United States House of Representatives." accessed February 23, 2024
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3684 - Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.1319 - American Rescue Plan Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.5376 - Inflation Reduction Act of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3617 - Marijuana Opportunity Reinvestment and Expungement Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.1808 - Assault Weapons Ban of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.1605 - National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.7776 - James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.6 - American Dream and Promise Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.3373 - Sergeant First Class Heath Robinson Honoring our Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act of 2022," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.4346 - Chips and Science Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.3755 - Women's Health Protection Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.1996 - SAFE Banking Act of 2021," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.2471 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.5 - Equality Act," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.8404 - Respect for Marriage Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.6833 - Continuing Appropriations and Ukraine Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2023," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.7688 - Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.8 - Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2021," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.5746 - Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "S.2938 - Bipartisan Safer Communities Act," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.Res.24 - Impeaching Donald John Trump, President of the United States, for high crimes and misdemeanors.," accessed April 15, 2022
- ↑ Congress.gov, "H.R.2617 - Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023," accessed January 20, 2023
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 434," accessed December 13, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 284," June 21, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 282," June 21, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 434," accessed March 12, 2019
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 549," October 3, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 344," June 29, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 342," June 29, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 256," May 4, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 405," September 26, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 399," September 13, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 313," June 28, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 257," June 8, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 216," May 22, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 127," March 22, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 69," February 9, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 60," February 6, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 44," January 22, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 33," January 18, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 708," December 21, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 692," December 19, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 670," December 7, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 637," November 16, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 589," October 26, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 557," October 5, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 528," September 14, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 480," September 8, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 441," September 6, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 299," June 8, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 249," May 3, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 230," May 24, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 49," January 30, 2018
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 631," November 14, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 435," July 27, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 413," July 25, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 437," July 28, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 407," July 24, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results For Roll Call 378," July 14, 2017
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 136," March 8, 2017
- ↑ Congressional Record, "Resume of Congressional Activity, First Session of the 113th Congress," accessed April 29, 2015
- ↑ Congressional Record, "Resume of Congressional Activity, Second Session of the 114th Congress," accessed January 5, 2017
- ↑ Congressional Record, "Resume of Congressional Activity, First Session of the One Hundred Fourteenth Congress," April 13, 2015
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 361," June 12, 2015
- ↑ Roll Call, "Deadline for TAA Do-Over Vote Extended to July 30 (Updated)," June 15, 2015
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 362," June 12, 2015
- ↑ Roll Call, "Deadline for TAA Do-Over Vote Extended to July 30 (Updated)," June 15, 2015
- ↑ Clerk.House.gov, "Final Vote Results for Roll Call 374," June 18, 2015
- ↑ Politico, "Trade turnaround: House backs new power for Obama," June 18, 2015
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- ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth from either 2004 (if the member entered office in 2004 or earlier) or the member's first year in office (as noted in the chart below).
- ↑ This number was found by dividing each member's total net worth growth percentage by the number of years included in the calculation.
- ↑ This figure represents the total percentage growth divided by the number of years for which there are net worth figures for each member.
- ↑ This figure was calculated using median asset data from the Census Bureau. Please see the Congressional Net Worth data for Ballotpedia spreadsheet for more information on this calculation.
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