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Pete Sessions is the Republican U.S. representative for Texas’s 17th District. His official biography records a private-sector career with Southwestern Bell, earlier House service beginning in 1997, prior leadership of the National Republican Congressional Committee and prior chairmanship of the House Rules Committee.
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Pete Sessions is the Republican U.S. representative for Texas’s 17th District. His official biography records a private-sector career with Southwestern Bell, earlier House service beginning in 1997, prior leadership of the National Republican Congressional Committee and prior chairmanship of the House Rules Committee.
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Open leadership record ↓Pete Sessions is the Republican U.S. representative for Texas’s 17th District. His official biography records a private-sector career with Southwestern Bell, earlier House service beginning in 1997, prior leadership of the National Republican Congressional Committee and prior chairmanship of the House Rules Committee.
The House Clerk currently lists Sessions on Financial Services and Oversight and Government Reform. His office identifies him as chair of the Oversight Government Operations Subcommittee and as a Financial Services member working on capital markets and national-security/illicit-finance issues.
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