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U.S. Representative · Texas 17th District
Pete Sessions
RepublicanDistrict R+14119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score28#303 of 431 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Pete Sessions’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office2204 Rayburn House Office Building Washington DC 20515-4317
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Democrats · 1 signal
- StrongBacks 3 Democratic-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 3 of the 890 tracked bills that were introduced by Democrats: H.R. 1993, H.R. 3395, H.R. 8205.
Keeps them with Republicans · 1 signal
- MediumVotes with House RepublicansNo ideology or scorecard measure places this member toward the Democrats: DW-NOMINATE +0.583 (party median +0.530; rank 132 of 219 by distance toward the Democrats); Heritage Action 94 (avg 86); LCV 3 (avg 1).
Bill-specific inputsVotes on similar past bills and committee seats vary by bill, so they appear in the swing-v3 scores below rather than here.
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 29.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMajority · 3rd in seniority
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Capital Markets
- House Committee on Oversight and Government ReformMajority · 10th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Government OperationsChairman
- Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewR median
D median
Sessions← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of +0.583 is 0.05 to the right of the House Republican median (+0.530).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Republican average- 119th Congress94House Republican average: 86 (n=217)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3, directional · a bill marks a member as committed to it| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | |
|---|---|---|---|
| H.R. 2332SHARE Act of 2026Summary on Congress.gov | No position yet | 39
| Middle |
| H.R. 1An act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14.Summary on Congress.gov |