Representative Pete Sessions

District 17 - Representative Pete Sessions - R

2204 Rayburn House Office Building

Washington, DC 20515-4332

Phone: (202) 225-6105

Fax: (202) 225-0350

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Committees:

• FINANCIAL SERVICES (Subs: Capital Markets; National Security, Illicit Finance & International Financial Institutions); 

• OVERSIGHT & GOVERNMENT REFORM (Subs: Government Operations (Chair); Health Care & Financial Services); 

Representative Pete Sessions' record prior to and including 2018 was representing District 32 in Dallas

Global Action Record:

• 2003 - HR 1298 - AIDS, TB, Malaria - Nay

• 2003 - HR 192 - Microcredit - passed voice vote

• 2005 - HR 1409 - Orphans & vulnerable children - yea

• 2006 - Brown Amendment +$10m for TB - passed by voice vote

• 2007 - HR 1567 - Stop TB Now Act - passed in House - unanimous consent

• 2007 - Payne Amendment +$50m for TB - passed by voice vote

• 2007 - YEA on failed LHHS amendment to reduce funding for Global Fund

• 2008 - HR 1532 - Comprehensive Tuberculosis Elimination Act - passed into law - unanimous consent 

• 2008 - HR 5501 - Tom Lantos & Henry J. Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act - passed - Nay/ Nay on Senate version

• 04/49/2009 - staffer attended congressional global health meeting with Paul Farmer

• 2010 - HR 2000 - Muhammad Yunus Gold medal - cosponsor

• 2013/06/19 - HR 1947 Farm Bill Royce Amdt. - failed - allowed for aid to purchase "local" food aid instead of shipping from U.S. farms - Nay

• 2014/11/12 - HRes 688 - Supporting vaccines through GAVI Alliance - cosponsor

• 2015/06/12 - Trade Adjustment Assistance - Nay / 2015/06/12Trade Promotion Authority - Yea / 

• 2015/07/31- signed Reichert/Lee/McCollum/McCaul letter to Pres. Obama urging maternal & child health funding in FY17 budget

• 2015/11/17 - HR 3706 - Reach Every Mother and Child Act - cosponsor 

• 2016/03/16 - signed Reichert/McCollum/McCaul/Capps/Ross/Lee Maternal & Child Health appropriations letter

• 2017/03/27 - signed Reichert/Lee/McCaul/Ross/Bera Maternal & Child Health robust funding letter to Foreign Ops 

• 2017/03/28 - signed Lee/Ros-Lehtinen Global Fund & PEPFAR robust funding letter to Foreign Ops

• 2017/09/07 - HR 601 +Harvey Relief + Continuing Resolution + raising debt limit - Yea (signed into law by President Trump)

• 2017/09/11 - HRes 466 - Support for Global Partnership for Education - cosponsor

• 2017/10/23 - HR 4022 - Reach Every Mother and Child Act - cosponsor

• 2018/03/16 – signed Reichert/McCollum/McCaul/Lee/Ross/Bera/Donovan Maternal & Child Health, Gavi and Nutrition Appropriations letter

• 2018/03/16 - signed Lee/Ros-Lehtinen GFATM/PEPFAR Appropriations letter

• 2018/03/16 - signed Reichert/Quigley Basic Education & GPE Appropriations letter

• 2018/08/02 – signed Engel, Young, Green urging admin for bold U.S. leadership at UN-HLM on TB

• 2022/10/19 - H.R.4693 - Global Malnutrition Prevention and Treatment Act of 2021 (unanimous, President Biden signed into law)

• 2024/12/23 - READ Act Reauthorization Act signed into law within H.R.5009 the  National Defense Authorization Act

U.S. Action Record:

•  2007 - HR 2 - Fair Minimum Wage Act - Nay

• 2007 - HR 976 - SCHIP - Nay/ Nay after veto / Nay after rewrite

• 2007 - HR 1429 - Improving Head Start Act - yea/not voting

• 2007 - HR 2419 - Farm, Nutrition, and Bioenergy Act - Nay

• 2007 - HR 3162 - Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act - Nay

• 2007 - Congressional Budget w/ increased domestic discretionary spending - Nay

• 2007 - LHHS approp. 11/6-Nay11/15-Nay

• 2008 - HR 976 - SCHIP - failed 1/23 Nay

• 2008 - HR 2419 - Farm Bill - passed/veto override/revote - Nay/Nay/Nay

• 2008 - HR 5140 - Economic Stimulus - (passed; signed into law) - Yea

• 2008 - HR 6049 - Renewable Energy and Job Creation Act (extends Child Tax Credit) -  Nay

• 2008 - HR 6331 - Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act - Nay/ yea after veto 

• 2008 - HR 6867 - Unemployment Compensation Extension Act - Yea

• 2009 - HR 1 - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act - Nay

• 2009 - HR 2 - Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act - Nay

• 2009 - HR 4154 - Permanent Estate Tax Relief for Families, Farmers & Small Businesses Act - Nay

• 2009 - S.Con.Res.13 - Congressional Budget Resolution - Nay

• 2010 - HR 3590 - Patient Protection and Affordable Health Act - Nay

• 2010 - S 3307 - Healthy Hungry Free Kids Act of 2010 - Nay

• 2010 - HR 4853 - Middle Class Tax Relief Act of 2010 - Nay/Yea

• 2013/06/20 - HR 1947 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP- Yea

• 2013/09/19 - HR 3102 Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act (cuts SNAP $39b) - Yea

• 2014//01/29 - HR 2642 - Agriculture Act of 2014 = Farm Bill (cuts SNAP $8.6b) - Yea

• 2014/07/25 - HR 4935 - Child Tax Credit Improvement Act (extends CTC to higher-incomes families but fails to address expiring benefits to low-income families) - Yea

• 2015/12/17 - HR 2029 - Omnibus tax bill including permanent extension or critical EITC/CTC provisions - Yea

• 2018/05/18, 2018/06/21 - HR 2 Farm Bill - failed - would have cut SNAP for people out of work - Yea, Yea

• 2024/01/31 - HR 7024 - Tax Relief for American Families and Workers (CTC) - Not Voting

• 2025/07/04 - H.R.1 One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Reconciliation bill) signed into law Senate 51-50 & House 218-214 - Yea