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Pete Sessions

U.S. House · Texas
On the ballot · Nov 3
$1.1M

Raised, 2025–26

  • Individuals$499k47%
  • PACs$516k49%
  • Transfers & other$35k3%

1% of the individual money came from small donors ($200 or less).

Top PAC industries

$573k
Office
PartyRepublican
ChamberU.S. House
SeatTexas, district 17
Up for electionNov 3, 2026
District
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TX-17 · Texas
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On the ballot · Texas House, district 17 · Nov 396% party to win· vs. Shepard ↓
The campaign · in their words
petesessions.com · read Oct 19, 2026 ↗Page titles and first lines from the campaign’s own site, unedited

Where They Stand

Position from 464 bills and votes and 29 statements, starting from a reputation prior of Right 27 — click any issue to see the reputation, the record and the shift.

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Sessions (you're viewing)
Overall
22
Rt-lean
LeftCenterRight
Track is neutral — only the dot's position and distance-from-center number carry meaning.

The 2026 Race

TX-17 race page →
Odds · party to winOct 27
Sessions (R)96%
Shepard (D)3%
The race · TX-17
Pete SessionsRepublican · incumbent · Rt-lean 22 on the record96%
Casey ShepardDemocrat · challenger · no positions yet3%
Money · raised, FEC to Sep 30
Pete Sessions$1.3M
$596k from individuals · $586k itemized
Casey Shepard$15k
$10k from individuals · $6k itemized
The FEC doesn't name donors who give under $200, so their gifts count in Raised but not Itemized.
Odds are a market close, not a poll

What They Care About

How this is measured

Bubble size = how much of Pete Sessions's sponsored bills, cosponsorships, campaign statements and tweets go to each domain. Votes are left out because they follow committee seats; domains a member's committees handle are discounted a little. Anything from the last 6 months counts double, so a topic they are on about right now grows. Darker = they have broken with their own party more often on that topic: the share of party-line votes since 2009 where they voted against their party's majority (gray = fewer than 8 such votes). Based on 6 sponsored, 189 cosponsored, 51 statements, 214 topical tweets. Click a bubble to open what they support and the bills and tweets behind it; click it again to close.

Federal budget, taxes and spending · 13% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 2 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 14 statements · 46 tweets · broke with their party on 43 of 1209 party-line votesFederal budget 13%Business, finance and labor · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 1 sponsored · 41 cosponsored · 2 statements · 47 tweets · broke with their party on 2 of 279 party-line votesBusiness 11%Foreign policy, trade and defense · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 11 cosponsored · 5 statements · 67 tweets · broke with their party on 27 of 538 party-line votesForeign policy 11%Crime and justice · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 16 cosponsored · 1 statements · 67 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 160 party-line votesCrime 11%Civil rights, gender and religion · 9% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 1 sponsored · 6 cosponsored · 6 statements · 29 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 42 party-line votesCivil rights 9%Immigration · 8% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 8 statements · 7 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 51 party-line votesImmigration 8%Health care · 7% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 23 cosponsored · 3 statements · 14 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 104 party-line votesHealth care 7%Energy, environment, land and agriculture · 7% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 3 statements · 17 tweets · broke with their party on 11 of 846 party-line votesEnergy 7%Education · 5% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 3 cosponsored · 1 statements · 29 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 81 party-line votesEducation 5%Housing, transportation, technology and vice · 5% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 12 cosponsored · 1 statements · 24 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 193 party-line votesHousing 5%Guns · 5% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 11 cosponsored · 4 statements · 3 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 16 party-line votesGuns 5%Federal power and civil liberties · 4% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 2 sponsored · 3 cosponsored · 0 statements · 21 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 312 party-line votesFederal power 4%Elections, representation and accountability · 3% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 5 cosponsored · 3 statements · 3 tweets · broke with their party on 0 of 26 party-line votesElections 3%Trade and industrial policy · 1% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 4 cosponsored · 0 statements · 1 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 12 party-line votes1%
Rarely breaksOften breaks

Pete Sessions

● Republican · U.S. House · Texas
Raised
$1.1M
2025–26 cycle
Top sector
$129k
finance & insurance
Overall
Rt-lean
22pt right
Actions
729
votes, bills, tweets
On the ballot · Nov 396% · vs. Shepard ↓
The campaign · in their words
Restore the value of the dollar ↗“If elected to the majority, Republicans will freeze new federal discretionary spending and place a moratorium on creating any new federal program, while stopping any significant expansion of federal agencies.”Create economic environment that generates prosperity and rising standards of living for working families ↗“Higher incomes for working families should be the constant goal of Congress.”Keep our national defense second to none ↗
From petesessions.com, unedited

Where They Stand

Overall
Rt-lean, 22 points from center
Dot = distance from center · band = 90% range

The 2026 Race

Race page →
Odds · party to winOct 27
Sessions (R)96%
Shepard (D)3%
The race · TX-17
Pete SessionsRepublican · incumbent · Rt-lean 22 on the record96%
Casey ShepardDemocrat · challenger · no positions yet3%
Money · raised, FEC to Sep 30
Pete Sessions$1.3M
$596k from individuals · $586k itemized
Casey Shepard$15k
$10k from individuals · $6k itemized
The FEC doesn't name donors who give under $200, so their gifts count in Raised but not Itemized.
Odds are a market close, not a poll

What They Care About

Federal budget, taxes and spending · 13% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 2 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 14 statements · 46 tweets · broke with their party on 43 of 1209 party-line votesBudget and taxes 13%Business, finance and labor · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 1 sponsored · 41 cosponsored · 2 statements · 47 tweets · broke with their party on 2 of 279 party-line votesBusiness and labor 11%Foreign policy, trade and defense · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 11 cosponsored · 5 statements · 67 tweets · broke with their party on 27 of 538 party-line votesForeign policy 11%Crime and justice · 11% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 16 cosponsored · 1 statements · 67 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 160 party-line votesCrime and justice 11%Civil rights, gender and religion · 9% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 1 sponsored · 6 cosponsored · 6 statements · 29 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 42 party-line votesCivil rights 9%Immigration · 8% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 8 statements · 7 tweets · broke with their party on 1 of 51 party-line votesImmigration 8%Health care · 7% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 23 cosponsored · 3 statements · 14 tweets · broke with their party on 3 of 104 party-line votesHealth care 7%Energy, environment, land and agriculture · 7% of Pete Sessions's priorities · 0 sponsored · 18 cosponsored · 3 statements · 17 tweets · broke with their party on 11 of 846 party-line votesEnergy and land 7%
RarelyOften breaks

Who Pays

PAC money · 2025–26
SectorPACsAmountShare
Finance & insurance37$129k
Retail & business24$93k
Agriculture & food19$56k
Other politicians12$48k
Issue groups14$43k
Labor unions5$36k
Transportation9$29k
Health care12$29k
Everything else37$112k
Raised $1.1M · 47% individuals · 49% pacs