R-TX·U.S. House·District 17

Pete Sessions

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$4.7M

raised· #142 in party

votes recorded

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Sessions' fundraising profile relies heavily on PAC and committee contributions, which account for 70 percent of his $4.7 million in direct contributions, with the remaining 30 percent coming from individual donors. His industry-tied PAC money shows concentration in commercial banking (16 percent), agriculture (11 percent), and insurance (11 percent), while his individual donor base includes notable representation from securities and investment firms, commercial banks, and lawyers. He has filed 28 stock trades under the STOCK Act disclosure requirements across 331 recorded votes in office.

Based on FEC donor data and voting records. Statistical patterns only — does not imply causation.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · the long tail of small-dollar individual donors isn't tagged

$3.3M

tagged $

Commercial Banks22.1%

Agriculture14.5%

Insurance14.5%

Health Services11.3%

Lawyers & Lobbyists10.7%

Securities & Investment9.5%

Real Estate9.0%

Single-Issue Advocacy8.4%

How to read this: percentages are shares of the 70% of contributions we can trace to an industry (via PAC names and donor employers). Most political money comes from small online donors who don't list an employer, so it can't be traced — that portion isn't shown here.

DATA SOURCES

Financial: FEC · 2022–2026 cycles

Profile: Congress.gov

Votes: House Clerk / Senate · 2021–present

Lobbying: Senate LDA · 2017–present

Trades: STOCK Act disclosures ·

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117th–119th Congress. Statistical patterns only.

DONOR MIX

Industry shares of CLASSIFIED contributions only · hover a slice for detail

$4.7M

classified

Commercial Banks22.1%

Agriculture14.5%

Insurance14.5%

Health Services11.3%

Lawyers & Lobbyists10.7%

Securities & Investment9.5%

Real Estate9.0%

Single-Issue Advocacy8.4%

TOP SOURCES

Employers (individuals) & PACs · excludes aggregators

Individual Donors (no employer)

individuals

$389,289

ALLIANCE BANK OF CENTRAL TEXAS MMT

corporation

$51,250

L3HARRIS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. PAC

PAC

$49,900

SPACE EXPLORATION TECHNOLOGIES CORP. PAC

PAC

$30,000

NATIONAL CATTLEMEN'S BEEF ASSOCIATION PAC

PAC

$30,000

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INSURANCE AND FINANCIAL ADVISORS POLITICAL ACTION COMM

PAC

$28,600

BANKPAC

PAC

$27,500

AICPA PAC

PAC

$26,500

AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CERTIFIED PUBLIC ACCOUNTANTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC

$26,500

NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PAC

PAC

$26,000

KOCHPAC

PAC

$25,000

AIPAC-PAC

PAC

$25,000

RECENT ACTIVITY

Most recent recorded contributions · PAC and itemized individual donors

AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ANESTHESIOLOGISTS POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (ASA PAC)

PAC · Apr 30, 2026

+$3,500

BLANK ROME PAC

PAC · Apr 27, 2026

+$1,000

BEEF-PAC (BEEF POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF TEXAS CATTLE FEEDERS ASSOCIATION)

PAC · Apr 17, 2026

+$1,000

MARCHANT GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

ALLIANCE BANK OF CENTRAL TEXAS MMT

Individual · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,348

MARCHANT GOOD GOVERNMENT FUND

PAC · Mar 31, 2026

+$2,500

SIMILAR DONOR NETWORKS

Members funded by the same industries — overlapping donor networks may reflect shared policy interests.

Tina Smith

D-MN · Senate

Commercial BanksInsuranceHealth Services

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David Kustoff

R-TN · House

Commercial BanksInsurance

HOW WE CALCULATE THIS

Donor Mix Donut

Shows PAC contributions and employer-attributed individual donations grouped by industry — as a share of classified giving only. Contributions that could not be matched to an industry are excluded from the donut but included in the dollar totals above. Advocacy/ideological PACs are excluded from industry breakdown.

What are aggregators?

WinRed, ActBlue, and similar platforms bundle contributions from many individual donors before passing them to campaigns. Because these don't represent a single entity's interests, they are excluded from the Donor Mix and Top Sources views — but they are counted in total fundraising figures.

Data sources

FEC Schedule A & bulk PAC filings · 2022–2026 cycles · Lobbying Disclosure Act (LDA) filings · 2017–present · Congress.gov / House Clerk voting records.

Important disclaimer

All data is sourced from public records. Analysis reflects statistical patterns only — it does not imply corruption, intent, or quid pro quo. Donor relationships show financial alignment, not control. Capitol Trail makes no claims about the motivations or character of any individual or organization.

CROP INSURANCE PROFESSIONALS ASSOCIATION PAC-CIPA PAC

PAC · Mar 30, 2026

NATIONAL STAR ROUTE MAIL CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 27, 2026

+$1,000

SYLVAMO CORPORATION PAC

PAC · Mar 26, 2026

+$1,000

UNITED PARCEL SERVICE, INC. PAC (UPSPAC)

PAC · Mar 26, 2026

+$5,000

NATIONAL AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS ASSOCIATION PAC

PAC · Mar 26, 2026

+$5,000

PITNEY BOWES INC. POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

PAC · Mar 24, 2026

+$1,000

PITNEY BOWES PAC

PAC · Mar 24, 2026

+$1,000

CALL TO SERVICE PAC

PAC · Mar 24, 2026

+$2,500

KROPSKI, RICHARD (ARANDELL CORPORATION)

Individual · Mar 23, 2026

+$550

SACKLER, ARTHUR B (SACKLER BRINKMANN & HUGHES LLC)

Individual · Mar 23, 2026

+$500

CAMPO, JOHN L. (EASY POST)

Individual · Mar 23, 2026

+$500

STAR PAC NATIONAL STAR ROUTE

PAC · Mar 20, 2026

+$1,000

PLUNKETT, MICHAEL (ASSOCIATION FOR POSTAL COMMERCE)

Individual · Mar 19, 2026

+$500

FLANAGAN, ROSEMARY (DATA-MAIL INC.)

Individual · Mar 19, 2026

+$500

STREEBIN, JARRETT (EASY POST)

Individual · Mar 16, 2026

+$1,500

GROVE, PETER H. (LAMAR ADVERTISING COMPANY)

Individual · Mar 12, 2026

+$500

TEXAS ALLIANCE FOR LIFE FED PAC

PAC · Mar 11, 2026

+$25

NELSON, JASON (RETIRED)

Individual · Mar 6, 2026

+$1,000

AIPAC PAC CONDUIT

PAC · Mar 5, 2026

+$1

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We're migrating to a fresh data source for daily STOCK Act disclosures. Historical filings shown below are accurate but not currently refreshed nightly. Full real-time coverage returning shortly.

disclosures

purchases

sales

est. positions

+28 unparsed PTRs — Some older PTR filings exist as metadata only (asset details locked in PDFs). They are not included in the holdings estimate above. House-side parsing landing in a future update.

DATA SOURCES

House: housestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Senate: senatestockwatcher.com · daily-refreshed PDF parses · 2013–present

Required under the STOCK Act of 2012. Disclosure regime reports amount ranges, not exact share counts.

WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT

Lobbying is when companies, unions, and trade associations pay firms to influence laws and regulations — and the law requires them to disclose it. Every quarter, registrants file a report with Congress detailing who hired them, how much they spent, and which issues they pushed.

This page filters those filings to the industries that also fund this member's campaign. If commercial banks gave 30% of this member's donations and also filed 5,000 lobbying reports on bank-related issues last year, that's a financial pattern worth knowing about. It does not mean the member is corrupt — it means the industries paying to elect them are also paying to influence the laws they vote on.

100,661

Lobbying filings

that overlap top donor industries

$14.4B

Reported spend

across those filings

Donor industries

tracked here

2017–2026

Years covered

10 years

LOBBYING BY DONOR INDUSTRY

only industries that also fund this member

Each row = an industry that donated to this member AND has lobbyists pushing on Congress. Bar width = reported lobbying spend.

Health Services

46,475 filings$4.9B

Securities & Investment

19,298 filings$4.2B

Agriculture

15,305 filings$1.5B

Commercial Banks

8,039 filings$1.3B

TOP LOBBYING FIRMS

The firms doing the most spending in this member's donor industries

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF THE U.S.A.

14 filings

$242.0M

NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

12 filings

$159.5M

PHARMACEUTICAL RESEARCH AND MANUFACTURERS OF AMERICA

13 filings

$113.6M

AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

14 filings

$91.7M

THE BUSINESS ROUNDTABLE, INC.

13 filings

$76.3M

Insurance

4,832 filings$1.2B

Real Estate

5,781 filings$710.6M

Legal Services

931 filings$571.0M

LOBBYING SPEND BY YEAR

How much lobbyists in this member's donor industries have reported spending each year

2017

23,503$2.5B

2018

5,384$606.1M

2019

5,298$555.7M

2020

8,491$743.2M

2021

5,632$541.8M

2022

5,810$595.9M

2023

8,270$788.0M

2024

8,541$784.1M

2025

7,249$793.1M

2026

8,121$879.0M

YEARspend ($)filingsreported $

GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY

15 filings

AMERICAN HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION

13 filings

$68.7M

AMAZON.COM SERVICES LLC

14 filings

$56.3M

SOURCES & CAVEATS

Data: LDA (Lobbying Disclosure Act) quarterly filings · 2017–present

Amounts are self-reported by registrants. Issue codes are mapped from the LDA's 80+ general issue codes to our 19-industry taxonomy.

An industry showing up here means it both (a) funds this member's campaign and (b) lobbies Congress on issues affecting it. That overlap is a factual pattern, not proof of any quid-pro-quo.