Congressman Pete Sessions

U.S. Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX) released the following statement applauding the passage of a critical measure to protect American students and campuses across the country

Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX), Congresswoman Carolyn B. Maloney (D-NY), Senator Heidi Heitkamp (D-ND), Breast Cancer Research Foundation (BCRF) President Myra Biblowit, Acting Deputy Director of the U.S. Mint David Croft, and Breast Cancer Survivor Melissa Miller joined together today to celebrate the launch of the Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin program at the U.S. Capitol. The bipartisan Breast Cancer Awareness Commemorative Coin Act (H.R. 2722) to create the commemorative coin program was introduced by Reps. Maloney and Sessions in the House and Sen. Heitkamp and ret. Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) in the Senate.

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After three years of working on this, the North Texas Municipal Water District (NTMWD) received and accepted the long-awaited federal permit needed to construct the Lower Bois d’Arc Creek Reservoir. The permit, issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, comes just in time – tremendous population growth in North Texas, coupled with a deficit of rain over the last decade, has put the region at a serious risk of a water shortage without this new reservoir in place by 2022.

Congressman Sessions testified before the the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education and Related Agencies on the importance of Down syndrome research.