SCORECARD · PETE SESSIONS accountability readout

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Republican U.S. House · TX-17 full conduct profile →
61/100
ELEVATED CAPTURE-RISK INDEX
How this number is built ↓
Silence risk25%
31
Contradiction risk25%
69
Connection density20%
77
Donor influence10%
45
Fact density10%
78
Constituency deviation5%
15
Voting misalignment5%
0

Weighted composite, 0–100. Identical to the figure on the Congress monitor. Each bar is the component's normalised 0–100 contribution before weighting.

01

Silence on donor-funded topics 4

Topics where donors have documented interests but the official has no public statement on record. Silence is the absence of expected speech — not proof of intent.

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02

Vote-vs-platform contradictions 1

Roll-call votes that contradict the official's own stated platform commitments. Each links to the bill and the contradiction rationale.

14.3% of 7 rated votes contradicted the stated platform
  • H.R. 1 ↗ YEA 2025-07-03
    One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) — House final passage
    why contradicted?
    [against_constituent] 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.
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03

Broken promises 0

Documented public commitments paired with the documented action that broke them. Each carries a primary-source citation for the violation.

No documented broken promises on file.

04

Documented contradictions 2

Stated-position-vs-revealed-conduct contradictions analysed against the official's commitments, scored by strength of the contradiction.

  • platform_vs_vote SCORE 90
    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 up to $105,000 in trades. He touts transparency as his 'friend' while opposing a ban on congressional stock trading that would prevent the very nondisclosure he committed. The CWA gave him a 0% score for 2025, noting the budget reconciliation 'imposes deep and damaging cuts to vital programs like Medicaid.'
  • statement_vs_disclosure SCORE 60
    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 regiment was once subject to a congressional ban on U.S. funding. The dissonance between supporting Ukraine aid while inadvertently meeting with controversial Ukrainian fighters — then issuing shifting explanations — reflects the operational and reputational risks of his foreign policy engagement.
Contradictions ledger →

What this scorecard does and doesn't claim

Every figure above is a count of records the platform already holds, each click-through-able to its source. The scorecard adds no inference, no forecast, and no narrative — it aggregates what is documented.

A populated scorecard is not a finding of corruption. It documents the volume of stated-vs-revealed tension, donor-adjacent silence, and broken commitments on the public record for this official. Silence in particular is the absence of an expected statement; it can have innocent explanations and is never presented as proof. Read each item's source before drawing conclusions.

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CitationGoblin House. "Pete Sessions — Responsibility Scorecard" (accountability scorecard). Goblin House — The Architecture of Secrecy. Accessed October 19, 2026. https://www.goblinhouse.net/scorecard/congress-s000250.

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