U.S. Representative — Texas’s 22nd Congressional District
Texas’s 22nd · educational cover · regional illustration
What this office is
A United States Representative is a federal legislator elected from one congressional district. Texas’s 22nd is one of the state’s 38 House seats. The term is two years. The whole House stands for election every even-numbered year.
This page is Side One: inform, educate, inspire. It is not the race, not legal advice, and not an official government notice. For the 2026 cycle, use the election twin.
Confirm the current Member and the official map on House.gov — Find your Representative and the Clerk of the House.
How the job fits this community
Texas’s congressional map for the 2026 ballot is PlanC2333 (HB 4), signed 29 August 2025. A federal court blocked it; the U.S. Supreme Court stayed that order on 4 December 2025. Unless a later order says otherwise, PlanC2333 is the map — not the 2021 lines. Confirm on VoteTexas and the official district viewer. Look up the address.
The 22nd is the southwest Houston suburban corner: Sugar Land, Rosenberg, Katy, Fulshear, plus Lake Jackson and Angleton in Brazoria. West Sugar Land also overlaps the 7th — look the street up. Katy is this seat, not the old 10th. Confirm the address.
Federal work here is a Fort Bend inbox and a Brazoria inbox. Sugar Land files a large suburb. Katy files a west-metro city. Lake Jackson files the coast-plain. Staff who still file Katy into the 10th are on the 2021 map.
The Representative is the human hinge between this Sugar-Land-and-Katy map and Washington.
What the job entails
- Legislate. Introduce and cosponsor bills. Sit on committees. Vote.
- The purse. The House originates revenue bills. Appropriations decide what actually gets built or staffed.
- Oversight. Hearings and letters that watch the executive branch.
- Casework. SSA, VA, IRS, USCIS, military records, passports.
- District presence. Town halls, city halls, employers, schools — the district is the employer.
- Two homes. Washington for votes and committees. The district for the people who hired the office.
What a day is like
There is no single Tuesday. In Washington: a visitor from Sugar Land and a visitor from Lake Jackson. In the district: a Fort Bend desk and a Brazoria desk.
The staff is the office. A serious Member is a serious principal: clear priorities, honest casework, no rumor as policy.
Place snapshot (verify official sources)
- State: Texas · Seat: District 22 of 38
- On PlanC2333: Sugar Land / Katy / Rosenberg / Lake Jackson
- Katy is not the 10th. Sugar Land is split with the 7th.
Orientation adapted from public congressional-district descriptions and Texas official election sources for education. The map and the Member of record are whatever the Secretary of State and House.gov say today.
What this is not
- Not a U.S. Senator (statewide, six-year term).
- Not the Governor.
- Not a county commission, or a mayor.
- Not a campaign flyer. This page does not tell anyone who to vote for.
Official doors
- Find your Representative
- VoteTexas.gov
- Voter lookup
- PlanC2333 district viewer
- Harris County Elections
The arena: 2026 election — Texas’s 22nd