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U.S. Representative · TX · District 17

Pete Sessions

RepublicanTerm through January 2027

Funding profile · 2023–2024 cycle

1% of the money Sessions raised came from small donors.

More grassroots-funded than 9% of the House.

Sessions raised $1.2M across the two-year election cycle (2023–2024), and ended the period with $441K cash on hand. Here is where the money came from.

1%from small donors
Small donors
1%$0.0M
Large donors
47%$0.6M
Bundled
0%$0.0M
PACs
50%$0.6M
Other
2%$0.0M

Against the house

How Sessions compares to the typical member.

Small-donor share
1%vs 5% house median
PAC share
50%vs 37% house median

Who has a stake in Sessions

The organizations behind the money.

Sessions's largest organized backing comes from AIPAC. That counts the group's own PAC check plus the individual donations it bundled, not just the direct check.

Money organized for Sessions

AIPAC

$17K

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, a pro-Israel lobby that both gives directly and bundles individual donations; its super PAC (United Democracy Project) runs large independent campaigns in primaries.

Who it funds, across Congress

59% Democrats · 40% Republicans · $38.7M to 359 members

Outside spending, by party

Spent $13.9M to elect Democrats; $5.0M to defeat Democrats.

Bankpac$13K

The American Bankers Association's BankPAC, representing the banking industry.

Who it funds, across Congress

34% Democrats · 66% Republicans · $2.3M to 354 members

Dell Technologies PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

55% Democrats · 45% Republicans · $862K to 166 members

Pnc PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

23% Democrats · 77% Republicans · $358K to 64 members

Scai PAC$10K

Who it funds, across Congress

53% Democrats · 47% Republicans · $132K to 23 members

The same money, by industry

Which industries have a stake.

The same organized money, grouped by the industry of the organization that moved it. It shows the interests behind Sessions's backing, not just the individual groups.

$135KFinance
$58KAg & Food
$39KHealth
$30KLabor
$27KEnergy

Plus $201K from organizations whose FEC name did not sort into an industry.

FEC filings, 2023–2024 cycle · as of August 2026 · showing the top 5 funders of 171 organizations with a stake

About this data

FEC-disclosed receipts for the 2023–2024 cycle. This is the disclosed money only. Spending by outside groups that do not reveal their donors, the dark money that set a record in 2024, never appears in these figures.

Every percentage here is a share of all receipts, not of individual contributions only. So the small-donor share counts transfers, loans, and other money in its base, and can read higher than figures that divide only by individual money.

PAC figures are contributions to Sessions's campaign committee from FEC filings. Industry labels are grouped from each committee's name and are approximate. Joint fundraising committees and small-dollar conduits like ActBlue and WinRed are not counted.

84%want dark money disclosed

Support for requiring the groups that spend on elections to name their donors, across both parties. Congress has not passed the DISCLOSE Act.

Where Sessions stands