Texas Representative Pete Sessions commemorated his three-term Rules Committee chairmanship with this portrait, which shows off the historic setting of the committee’s Capitol offices. Sessions poses next to the fireplace in the chairman’s office, with an atmospheric, pink-tinged sky beyond the East Front plaza behind him. The gilded cast-iron window trim and red marble fireplace frame the interior space. The gavel in Sessions’s hand alludes to his position as chairman, while the bust of Ronald Reagan on the windowsill signals his party affiliation.
