Sylvia R. Garcia

Democrat · TX-29 · U.S. House

Bio

Sylvia Rodriguez Garcia is an American lawyer and politician who has been serving as the U.S. representative for Texas's 29th congressional district since 2019. Her district covers much of eastern Houston. A member of the Democratic Party, she previously represented the 6th district in the Texas Senate.

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Record of service

In office: 7.6 years
First took office: 2019 (4 terms)
Seniority: 233 of 437 by time served
Age: 75

District offices

Houston, TX · 832-325-3150

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$102k

2020

$203k

2021

$388k

2022

$487k

2023

$647k

2024

$627k

2025

$1.0M

2026

$143k

Most recent filing (2026)

Assets: $100k – $250k
Liabilities: $15k – $50k
Net worth: $50k – $235k
Since 2019: +$40k

Largest holdings in the 2026 filing · 1 assets reported

Asset Owner Value of Asset Income Type(s) Income Current Year to Filing Income Preceding Y$100k – $250k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.40

Healthcare

D+0.89

Immigration & Border

D+0.81

Guns

D+0.87

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.84

Crime & Policing

D+0.54

Defense & Veterans

D+0.21

Economy & Labor

D+0.48

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.21

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.90

Education

D+0.58

Government & Democracy

D+0.83

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Sylvia R. Garcia's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

92%Closest

Green Party

88%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

85%

Communist Party USA

84%

Libertarian Party

54%

Republican Party

32%

On the political map

Sylvia R. Garcia (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Garciasits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Housing and Insurance Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
House Committee on Ethicscenter · 10 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Garcia's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.