{"id":447838,"date":"2026-09-25T22:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447838\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T22:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T22:38:07","slug":"meet-the-candidates-for-congressional-district-29-lake-houston-humble-kingwood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447838\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the candidates for Congressional District 29 | Lake Houston &#8211; Humble &#8211; Kingwood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic incumbent Sylvia Garcia is facing off against Republican challenger Martha Fierro in the race for Congressional District 29 in the upcoming\u00a0Nov. 3 general election.<\/p>\n<p>Some context<\/p>\n<p>Members of the U.S. House of Representatives are elected for two-year terms with no term limits. Following\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/houston\/bay-area\/texas-legislature\/2025\/12\/04\/texas-can-use-new-congressional-map-in-2026-elections-us-supreme-court-rules\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">congressional redistricting<\/a>, which will take effect in January, District 29\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dvr.capitol.texas.gov\/Congress\/0\/PLANC2308\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">will cover<\/a>\u00a0portions of north Harris County.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/member\/district\/sylvia-garcia\/G000587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Currently<\/a>, the district covers portions of central and southeast Harris County.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Candidates were asked to keep responses under 50 words, answer the questions provided and avoid attacking opponents. Answers may have been edited or cut to adhere to those guidelines, or for style and clarity.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about voting in Harris County, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.harrisvotes.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">www.harrisvotes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Democratic incumbent Sylvia Garcia is facing off against Republican challenger Martha Fierro in the race for Congressional District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447839,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[40190,154330,22956,405,56,58,57,154329,13542,2860],"class_list":["post-447838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-candidates","tag-congressional-district-29","tag-general-election","tag-harris-county","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-martha-fierro","tag-sylvia-garcia","tag-u-s-house-of-representatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}