[CAPTURE PORTAL] 119TH CONGRESS

// Legislative Integrity Monitor

Goblin House Intelligence

Pete Sessions

Republican · Representative, TX ·17

Score Components

22 ELEVATED

Connection Density 20%

4 → 1

Donor Influence 10%

0 → 0

Silence Risk 25%

0 → 0

Contradiction Risk 25%

64 → 16

Intelligence Volume 10%

54 → 5

Constituency Deviation 5%

0 → 0

Voting Misalignment 5%

0 → 0

% = weight in composite score · Raw component 0–100 × weight = weighted contribution (→) · Sum of contributions = overall score. Hover a row for details.

[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Cook Partisan Voting Index: R+33

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: public transit utilization: 0.2%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: unemployment rate: 5.4%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Black population share: 14.5%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: Hispanic population share: 26.7%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: White (Non-Hispanic) population share: 58.2%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median rent: $1,212

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median home value: $239,500

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median age: 36.1

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: bachelor's degree or higher: 27.5% (12% lack high school diploma)

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: homeownership rate: 62.4%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: poverty rate: 10%

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: median household income: $68,232

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[constituency_baseline] Demographic anchor: population: 791,966 (2024 LegisLetter ACS)

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[constituency_baseline] Ballot measure: Texas Proposition 4 — Property Tax Relief (2023) (2023) — passed, margin 83.5% Yes — 16.5% No

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 44-45 (share 0.11)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 61 (share 0.12)

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[constituency_baseline] Dominant industry: NAICS 62 (share 0.14)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Sam Houston State University (Huntsville) (2500 employees)

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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Baylor Scott & White Health (Central Texas region) (10000 employees)

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L3Harris Technologies pac_donor 2024: $10,000 via PAC. Sessions serves on the Financial Services Committee and his largest individual stock trades inclu

Bill	Vote	Date	Alignment
Iran War Powers Resolution (March 2026)	nay_unverified	2026-03-05	deviating
One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage	yea	2025-07-03	misaligned
Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas (March 2025)	yea	2025-03-06	deviating
Laken Riley Act (119th Congress, January 7, 2025)	yea	2025-01-07	deviating
Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($61 billion)	yea	2024-04-20	deviating
Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26 billion)	yea	2024-04-20	aligned
Objection to Pennsylvania Electoral College Certification — January 6-7, 2021	yea	2021-01-07	deviating

Last contradiction analysis: Never

platform_vs_vote 90/100

Platform: "Sessions campaigns as a fiscal conservative who 'balanced the federal budget four years in a row from 1998 to 2001' as part of the GOP majority. He re"

Vote: on "Sessions voted yea on the OBBBA (H.R. 1) on both May 22 and July 3, 2025. The CBO projected the bill"

Sessions campaigns as a fiscal conservative who balanced budgets and demanded transparency, yet voted for the OBBBA which the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to the deficit — while himself violating the STOCK Act by failing to properly disclose

statement_vs_disclosure 60/100

Platform: "Sessions voted yea on the 2024 $95 billion foreign aid package (including $61 billion for Ukraine and $26 billion for Israel), earning praise from the"

Vote: on "In September 2022, Sessions met with soldiers from Ukraine's Azov regiment on Capitol Hill — a group"

Sessions voted to arm Ukraine against Russian aggression — a Reaganite internationalist posture that earned praise from his local newspaper — yet met with Azov regiment soldiers on Capitol Hill and initially denied knowing who they were. The Azov reg

Last silence detection: Never

No active silences

No donor interests mapped

No constituency baseline modelled

No platform commitments archived

No committee memberships recorded

Scoring Methodology

The Capture Risk Score is a composite 0–100 index measuring potential regulatory capture of elected officials. It is computed from seven weighted components:

Component	Weight	Signal
Silence Risk	25%	Topics where donors have interests but the official is silent
Contradiction Risk	25%	Stated positions contradicted by voting record (recent findings boosted)
Connection Density	20%	Mapped relationships to lobbyists, contractors, interest groups
Intelligence Volume	10%	Documented facts from verified sources (logarithmic scale)
Donor Influence	10%	Distinct donors with interests overlapping committee jurisdiction
Constituency Deviation	5%	Gap between district priorities and legislative focus
Voting Misalignment	5%	Floor votes contradicting stated platform positions

Each component produces a raw score 0–100. The weighted sum yields the overall score. Tier thresholds: Critical ≥ 45, High ≥ 36, Elevated ≥ 22, Moderate ≥ 10, Low < 10.

Officials without at least 2 documented facts, 1 contradiction analysis, 1 voting record, or 1 constituency baseline are marked Insufficient Evidence and excluded from numeric ranking.

Contradiction findings from the last 180 days receive a recency boost. High-severity contradictions (score ≥ 70) receive additional weight.

Full methodology: /congress/methodology

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