No not that Sessions you idiots; that's Jeff Sessions and he is in the Senate of the United States of Amerika doing all the same good things his namesake does in the House of Representatives.

Pete Sessions is one of those people that makes Amerika seem great to teabaggers and birchers and all the important people in the Southern States. I think part of it has to do with what I discovered in Wiki today:

He is an Eagle Scout with four generations of Boy Scouts in his family, and recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Boy Scouts of America,[1][2] as well as a member of the Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity.[3] As a Congressman, Sessions has sponsored legislation to raise money for the Boy Scouts.[4] At the 2007 National Convention, Sessions was presented with the Pi Kappa Alpha Distinguished Alumni Award.

This son of the former head of the CIA, learned valuable lessons tying knots and making fires in the wilderness with white men who really enjoyed the company of younger boys. And Pete learned the difference between the Eagle Scouts and the Eaglets for sure:

Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), the head of the Republicans campaign committee, caused a stir at last night's Rules Committee meeting when he suggested that treating female-related health conditions was comparable to insurance-company imposed restrictions on smokers.

"Why should a woman pay more than a man?" asked New Jersey Democrat Frank Pallone, according to the Courthouse News Service.

"Well, we're all different," Sessions explained. "Why should a smoker pay more?" he said before interrupted.

That prompted major pushback from Democrats, who say that it proves that House Republicans don't care about working-class women.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/1109/Dems_blast_Sessions_

womentosmokers_comparison.html?showall

And Pete protected minority rights in this country since he first took office in 1997.  Credit card companies are a minority. I mean a really hated minority. Charges including  fees  end up being anywhere between 20% and 50% of  real interest on money lent to poorer people and the middle class. Someone had to stand up for their rights for a change:

Their efforts allow us today to again urge Senate action to ensure that our Nation's bankruptcy laws operate fairly, efficiently, and free of abuse. Congress has the opportunity to once again end, once and for all, the loophole to debtors who are able to repay some portion of their debts to game the system and increase the cost of credit, goods and services for other law-abiding citizens. Between 2002 and 2003, the Federal court system reported that there was a 9.6 percent increase in bankruptcy filings to over 1.650 million filings, and these filings have a real cost not only to every consumer but also to simple, everyday Americans.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/teflon-pete-by-digby-representative.html

But how does Pete's voting record stand up to scrutiny:

The Patriot Act.....well Old Pete is all for patriotism as long as it only takes away the rights of the peasants.

Clean Air Acts....well Pete is naturally against clean air but his friends explained to him that w's act was really the dirty air act so he voted for it.

Fair pay acts........does not matter. Just put the words fair pay in a bill, Pete is all against it.

Surveillance acts.........again. Does not matter...just put the word Surveillance in a bill, Pete is all for it.

Commerce, science or justice....any one of those words and Pete is against it.

Detention centers..........as long as they are setting up detention centers, Pete is all for them. If you intend to tear them down, well old Pete is against it.

Flag desecration acts..............oh Pete is mostly against this unless you are burning some Muslim Nation's flag of course or France's flag for that matter.

http://www.votesmart.org/voting_category.php?can_id=288&type=category&category=13&go.x=10&go.y=9

But Pete Sessions has run into some problems since Daddy quit the CIA. Some documents have been discovered going back to 2001 when the repub party party really got started:

Just hours after federal agents charged banker Allen Stanford with fleecing investors of $7 billion, the disgraced financier received a message from one of Congress' most powerful members, Pete Sessions.

``I love you and believe in you,'' said the e-mail sent on Feb. 17. ``If you want my ear/voice -- e-mail,'' it said, signed ``Pete.''

The message from the chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee represents one of the many ties between members of Congress and the indicted banker that have caught the attention of federal agents.

The Justice Department is investigating millions of dollars Stanford and his staff contributed to lawmakers over the past decade to determine if the banker received special favors from politicians while building his spectacular offshore bank in Antigua, The Miami Herald has learned.

Agents are examining campaign dollars, as well as lavish Caribbean trips funded by Stanford for politicians and their spouses, feting them with lobster dinners and caviar.

The money Stanford gave Sessions and other lawmakers was stolen from his clients while he carried out what prosecutors now say was one of the nation's largest Ponzi schemes.

There happened to be some bill churning its weight through the machinery of Congress back then that would have affected Pete Sessions' lover"

To combat the bill, Stanford launched a strategy he would use for the next eight years: He gave money to the party in power, including $40,000 to the Senate Republican Campaign Committee and $100,000 to the inaugural committee of George W. Bush, records show.

By summer of 2001, the bill was dead.

In the ensuing years, Stanford's banking empire flourished, with the Miami office generating hundreds of millions of dollars, records show.

In late 2001, Stanford confronted another threat: A bill allowing state and federal regulators to share details about fraud cases -- which would have brought Stanford's brokerages under closer scrutiny -- landed in the Senate Banking Committee.

   http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/v-fullstory/story/1399470.html

I wonder how Stanford has faired under the new Bankruptcy Act?

Individuals who were ultimately fleeced by this mini Madoff, probably did not fair as well.

Pete Sessions is one of those repub heroes who makes Amerika what it is today.

The land of opportunity for the criminal consortium that owns and controls it.