Rep. Peter (Pete) Sessions [R-TX32]
U.S. Representative, Texas’s 32^nd District

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Outside Links

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Peter Sessions’s Official Website

Biography from the official Congressional Biographical Directory

Campaign Contributions tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics

State:	Texas [map]
District:	32^nd Congressional District [map]
Party:	Republican
Birthday:	Mar 22, 1955 / 54 years old

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On the Floor

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Congressional Service

Peter Sessions has represented Texas’s 32^nd congressional district since 2003.

Below are the past and present terms in the Senate, House, and White House held by Peter Sessions:

When	Role	Representing
2003-2010	U.S. Representative	Texas’s 32^nd
1997-2002	U.S. Representative	Texas’s 5^th	(was preceeded by John Bryant)

Sponsorship Analysis

Sessions is a far-right Republican according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship.

These labels come from the Political Spectrum statistical analysis that we have carried out. The statistical analysis puts members of Congress on a scale based on patterns of bill sponsorship, and is blind to party affiliation and the content of bills. From there, we have somewhat arbitrarily divided the Members of Congress into far-left/right, rank-and-file, and moderate (i.e. centrist). For each party, the most extreme 23% of Members of Congress are labeled far-left or -right. The most centrist 30% (i.e. those closest to the other party) are labeled moderate. The remaining 47% are labeled as rank-and-file.

Sessions is a follower according to our statistical analysis of bills in this legislative session. Sessions tends to cosponsors the bills of other Members of Congress who do not cosponsor Sessions’s own bills. For more, see congressional statistics.

To compute the leader-follower score for Sessions, we make a table that lists all other Members of Congress. Each row has the number bills sponsored by Sessions and cosponsored by the other Member of Congress divided by the number of bills sponsored by the other Member of Congress and cosponsored by Sessions.

This is a measure of who is following who. The higher the number, the more times others are cosponsoring Sessions's bills without Sessions returning the favor. We then take the mean of (the logorithms of) these ratios. Thanks to Joe Barillari for the idea.

Voting Record

Peter Sessions missed 510 (6%) of 8747 votes since Jan 7, 1997. The graph to the left shows the number of missed votes over time. Click for a larger chart and a list of recent votes.

Money & Influence

The top campaign contribution to Sessions in 2007-2008 was $19,500 from employees of Cash America International. Peter Sessions’s net worth was between $2,598,045 and $5,871,000 in 2007, according to Sessions’s mandated financial disclosure statements. For more information, see the Center for Responsive Politics’ page for Sessions.

Committee Membership

Peter Sessions sits on the following committees:

Member, House Committee on Rules

Bill Sponsorship & Cosponsorship

Peter Sessions has sponsored 81 bills since Jan 7, 1997 of which 70 haven't made it out of committee and 2 were successfully enacted. Sessions has co-sponsored 1908 bills during the same time period. (The count of enacted bills considers only bills actually sponsored by Sessions and companion bills identified by CRS that were themselves enacted, but not if they were incorporated into other bills, as that information is not readily available.)

Some of Sessions’s most recently sponsored bills include...

	H.Res. 202: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that the Commissioner of Food and Drugs should evaluate the scientific evidence on the question of whether to add more folic acid to enriched grain products and expand folic acid fortification into cornmeal and corn-based food products to help prevent further serious birth defects.
	H.R. 1599: To require survivor annuity payments made to disabled dependents to be disregarded in eligibility and benefit determinations under the supplemental security income (SSI) and Medicaid Programs.
	H.Res. 557: Expressing support for the State of Israel's inalienable right to defend itself in the face of an imminent nuclear or military threat from Iran, terrorist organizations, and the countries that harbor them.
	H.R. 446: EXPENSE Act of 2009
	H.Con.Res. 57: Expressing the sense of the Congress that a commemorative postage stamp should be issued to promote public awareness of Down syndrome.

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