Pete Sessions
| Pete Sessions | |
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| Chair of the House Rules Committee | |
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Assumed office January 3, 2013 |
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| Preceded by | David Dreier |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 32nd district |
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Assumed office January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | Constituency established |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas's 5th district |
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In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2003 |
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| Preceded by | John Bryant |
| Succeeded by | Jeb Hensarling |
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Peter Anderson Sessions March 22, 1955 Waco, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Juanita (1984–2011) Karen Diebel (2012–present) |
| Alma mater | Southwestern University (BS) |
Peter Anderson "Pete" Sessions (born March 22, 1955) is an American politician. He represents Texas's 32nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party. He is the current chairman of the House Rules Committee and a former chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee.
Sessions was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Alice June (née Lewis) and William Steele Sessions, the former director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. He grew up in Waco and in the suburbs of Washington, DC. He graduated from Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas in 1978. He worked for Southwestern Bell for 16 years and rose to the rank of district manager for marketing in Dallas, supervising 435 employees and managing a $16 million budget.
In his 1991 election bid, Sessions finished third in a special election for the House of Representatives.
In 1993, he left his job with Southwestern Bell to again run for Congress, against 5th District incumbent Democratic Congressman John Bryant. He toured the district with a livestock trailer full of horse manure, claiming that the Clinton Administration's health care plan stank more than the manure. He lost by 2,400 votes. He subsequently became vice president for public policy at the National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA), a Dallas-based conservative public policy research institute.
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