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[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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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Baylor University (Waco) (3500 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] Top employer: Texas A&M University (College Station) (14000 employees)
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[constituency_baseline] District summary: Texas's 17th Congressional District stretches from the northern Austin suburbs through Central Texas into Deep East Texas, encompassing Waco, College Station (Texas A&M University), Huntsville, Lufkin, and Nacogdoches. Home to approximately 791,966 constituents, the district is majority White (58.2%) with a significant Hispanic minority (26.7%) and Black population (14.5%). The median household income is $68,232 — well above the $37,585 national median but below the Texas average — with a poverty rate of 10%, homeownership of 62.4%, and median home value of $239,500. Only 27.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree (vs. 33.7% nationally) and 12% lack a high school diploma. The median age is 36.1 (younger than the 38.5 national average), driven by the Texas A&M student population. The economy is anchored by higher education (Texas A&M, Baylor University, Sam Houston State), healthcare, manufacturing, and agriculture. The district has a Cook PVI of R+33 and voted for Trump by approximately 25 points in 2024, making it one of the most Republican seats in Texas. Sessions won the 2024 general election with approximately 66% of the vote after relocating to this district following his 2018 defeat in TX-32.
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Voted yea on H.Res. 189 (Censuring Representative Al Green of Texas (March 2025)) on 2025-03-06: Sessions voted yea with all Republicans and 10 Democrats to censure fellow Texas congressman Al Green for disrupting Trump's address to Congress. As a senior Texas Republican and former NRCC chair, the vote was party-line. Sessions was also on the receiving end of censure threats himself in the past and has faced raucous town halls.
Date: 2025-03-06
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Voted yea on H.R. 29 (Laken Riley Act (119th Congress, January 7, 2025)) on 2025-01-07: Sessions voted yea on mandatory ICE detention for undocumented immigrants accused of nonviolent crimes including shoplifting. The bill passed 263-156 with 46 Democratic defections. All 217 House Republicans present voted yea. His TX-17 district is only 7.8% foreign-born, making this a politically safe hardline immigration vote. Sessions campaigned on border security in his 2024 race.
Date: 2025-01-07
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Voted yea on H.J.Res. 11 (Objection to Pennsylvania Electoral College Certification — January 6-7, 2021) on 2021-01-07: Sessions was one of 138 House Republicans who voted to sustain the objection to Pennsylvania's Electoral College certification, voting to exclude the state's electoral votes and overturn the certified presidential election results. This vote occurred in the early hours of January 7, 2021, hours after the Capitol riot. Sessions's TX-17 district includes McLennan County (Waco) and stretches through parts of Central Texas that voted for Trump by significant margins. The vote placed him among the 138 Republicans who sought to overturn the election — a position that has since become a defining litmus test within the GOP.
Date: 2021-01-07
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Voted yea on H.R. 8034 (Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($26 billion)) on 2024-04-20: Sessions voted yea on $26.38 billion in military aid to Israel, part of the same $95 billion national security package. His top PAC donor AIPAC ($19,632 in the 2024 cycle) strongly supported the bill. The vote was bipartisan (366-58) with overwhelming Republican support. Sessions co-sponsored legislation for stronger sanctions on Iran and has been a consistent supporter of the U.S.-Israel military relationship throughout his congressional career.
Date: 2024-04-20
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Voted yea on H.R. 8035 (Ukraine Security Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2024 ($61 billion)) on 2024-04-20: Sessions voted yea on $61 billion in Ukraine military aid, placing him among 101 Republicans who supported the package against a GOP majority that voted nay. He and 138 other Republicans voted against Marjorie Taylor Greene's amendment to strip Ukraine funding, landing Sessions on her 'hate list.' The Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board praised his 'belated efforts on behalf of Ukrainian freedom,' given his 'checkered past regarding Ukraine.' He stated the package 'represent[s] a strategic response to global security threats.' This vote distinguished Sessions from the MAGA isolationist flank and placed him in the Reaganite internationalist wing — a notable position for a former NRCC chairman who helped build the GOP majority.
Date: 2024-04-20
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Voted yea on H.R. 1 (One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage) on 2025-07-03: Sessions voted yea on legislation the CBO projected would add $3.4 trillion to deficits and cut approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP. The CWA gave him a 0% score for 2025, citing this vote as imposing 'deep and damaging cuts to vital programs like Medicaid, reward[ing] corporations that move jobs overseas, and undermin[ing] the economic security of working families.' His TX-17 district has 10% poverty, 27.5% bachelor's degree attainment, and a median household income of $68,232 — thousands of constituents depend on Medicaid and SNAP. He also voted yea on the FY2025 Budget Resolution that set the reconciliation framework and on the Lower Health Care Premiums for All Americans Act that the CWA said would 'shift healthcare costs from employers and insurers onto workers.' Only 2 Republicans voted nay on the OBBBA.
Date: 2025-07-03
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[statement] In September 2022, Sessions met with soldiers from Ukraine's Azov regiment on Capitol Hill — a group historically scrutinized for far-right ties and once subject to a congressional funding ban. Sessions initially denied meeting with Azov soldiers, then told Sputnik: 'I did not know with whom he met since these people did not wear a uniform.'
Date: 2022-09-27
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[vote] 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 Waco Tribune-Herald editorial board and placing him on Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'hate list.' He said: 'In an era of complex global challenges, these foreign-aid packages equip the United States with the necessary tools to support our allies.'
Date: 2024-04-20
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[vote] Sessions voted yea on the OBBBA (H.R. 1) on both May 22 and July 3, 2025. The CBO projected the bill would add $3.4 trillion to the national debt and cut approximately $1 trillion from Medicaid and SNAP. The CWA gave him a 0% score for 2025, stating the bill 'imposes deep and damaging cuts to vital programs like Medicaid' while 'reward[ing] corporations that move jobs overseas.' His TX-17 district has 10% poverty, 62.4% homeownership, and a median household income of $68,232. Sessions failed to properly disclose up to $105,000 in stock trades in violation of the STOCK Act — the very transparency law he claimed to champion.
Date: 2025-07-03
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[statement] 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 recently touted 'transparency' on stock trading, saying 'If you have nothing to hide, transparency is your friend.' He opposed banning congressional stock trading.
Date: 2022-03-03
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Sessions lost his Dallas-anchored seat (TX-32) to Democrat Colin Allred in 2018 after Democrats spent $10 million against him. He relocated and won the Waco-area TX-17 in 2020, returning to Congress after a two-year absence.
Date: 2018-2021
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Sessions serves as a senior member on the House Financial Services and Oversight Committees and as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Government Operations on Oversight. He is a co-chair of the DOGE Caucus. He previously chaired the NRCC (2009-2012, netting 63 seats in 2010) and the House Rules Committee (2013-2019). A former AT&T executive (1978-1993), he is the son of former FBI Director William Sessions.
Date: 2025-01-03
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Sessions failed to properly disclose up to $105,000 in stock trades in violation of the STOCK Act, with the most tardy filing four months overdue. In 2014, he filed seven transactions beyond the 45-day deadline, with the latest 278 days late. Sessions opposes a congressional stock trading ban, telling Insider: 'If you have nothing to hide, transparency is your friend.'
Date: 2022-03-03
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Quiver Quantitative estimates Sessions's net worth at $9.8 million as of February 2026 — the 107th highest in Congress. He has approximately $3.3 million invested in publicly traded assets. He has executed $17.4 million in stock trades, with 78 transactions over three years including BlackRock, Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Nvidia.
Date: 2026-02-20
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Top contributing industries: Finance/Insurance/Real Estate ($248,513), Misc Business ($62,350), Health ($59,748), Securities & Investment ($54,700), and Transportation ($51,500). Sessions also operates PETE PAC, his leadership PAC.
Date: 2024-12-31
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Major PAC donors at $10,000 each include America's Credit Unions, American Bankers Assn, AIPAC, Allied Pilots Assn, American Institute of CPAs, Dell Technologies, Koch Inc, L3Harris Technologies, National Assn of Insurance & Financial Advisors, National Assn of Realtors, National Cattlemen's Beef Assn, PNC Financial Services, Society for Cardiovascular Angiography, and UBS Americas.
Date: 2024-12-31
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2023-2024 cycle: Reported $582,234 in campaign payments. Top individual donors include Bankers Life ($12,400), Elements Massage ($12,400), and Deason Capital Services ($11,900). AIPAC contributed $19,632 through 28 separate PAC payments — Sessions's single largest PAC payor.
Date: 2024-12-31
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