Press Releases
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 2262 the SPACE Act of 2015, legislation that facilitates a pro-growth environment for the developing commercial space industry by encouraging private sector investment and creating more stable and predictable regulatory conditions:
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after passage of H.R. 880 the American Research and Competitiveness Act of 2015, legislation that extends and makes permanent the research and development tax credit:
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of the America COMPETES Act, a fiscally responsible bill authorizing necessary scientific research while staying within the cap set in the Budget Control Act for FY16:
Sessions Applauds House Passage of Legislative Branch Appropriations Bill
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement on the House’s passage of an annual spending bill to fund the offices of members of the House of Representatives as well as the agencies related to its security, resources for visitors and funding to maintain its operations and infrastructure:
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement after voting in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act as well as an amendment to strike language that would allow illegal immigrants to serve in the U.S. military:
“Allowing illegal immigrants to serve in our military is wholly inconsistent with thoroughly vetted Republican philosophy.
Washington, DC – U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement on the House’s passage of H.R. 2048, the USA Freedom Act:
Washington, DC – Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today released the following statement on the House’s passage of a bill (H.R. 1732) that restricts the administration’s efforts to expand federal jurisdiction over additional bodies of water under the Clean Water Act.
Washington, DC – Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today released the following statement on the House’s passage of a bill that provides annual funding for energy and water development related agencies, including nuclear weapons security programs, the Army Corps of Engineers, and various other programs under the Department of Energy.
Washington, DC – Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement on the House’s passage of H.R. 2029, the FY 2016 Military Construction and Veterans Affairs Appropriations Act:
Washington, D.C. – Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), chairman of the House Rules Committee, today issued the following statement on the House’s passage of the first complete bicameral budget resolution since 2001:
“With Republicans in control of both houses of Congress, we were finally able to pass a bicameral budget resolution, something the Congress failed to do time and time again under Democratic leadership at taxpayers’ expense.”
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