Sessions is the longest-serving representative running to become U.S. House Speaker. He previously led the House Republican campaign arm through a record-breaking victory, but he still faces a steep battle to secure the gavel.
U.S. Rep. Pete Sessions, R-Waco, speaks at a rally in College Station on Oct. 28, 2020. Sessions, then a candidate to return to the U.S. House, joined U.S. Sen. John Cornyn at the campaign stop, part of the senator's statewide bus tour., R-Waco, is running for House speaker, bringing with him decades of experience in the chamber and a record of winning seats for his party.
But Sessions also has a record of winning. Sessions led the National Republican Congressional Committee, the party’s House campaign apparatus, when the party won control of the House in 2010. Republicans won a net increase of 63 seats, a record win. That year helped usher in a new era of Tea Party-aligned Republicans dead-set on stopping then-President Barack Obama’s agenda. Obama lamented the election at the time as a “shellacking.
Sessions also joined the majority of House Republicans in voting against certifying the 2020 presidential election. Only two candidates for speaker, Emmer and Georgia’s Rep. Austin Scott, voted to certify the election. A spokesperson for Sessions responded in a statement that electing a Texas Republican “will emphasize the different visions each party holds for America.”
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