U.S. Representative — Texas’s 4th Congressional District

Educational briefing on the U.S. House seat for Texoma and the western Collin suburbs. — educational cover (regional illustration)

Texas’s 4th · educational cover · regional illustration

What this office is

A United States Representative is a federal legislator elected from one congressional district. Texas’s 4th 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 4th is Texoma along the Red River — Sherman, Paris — plus Frisco, most of Plano, and the Collin County portion of Dallas. Texarkana is the 1st. Eastern Plano is the 3rd. Confirm the address.

Federal work here is a Red-River inbox and a Collin-suburb inbox. Sherman files a Texoma city. Frisco and most of Plano file the west side of a split metro. Staff who still file Texarkana here, or all of Plano here, are on the wrong line.

The Representative is the human hinge between this Sherman-and-Plano 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 Sherman and a visitor from Plano. In the district: a Grayson desk and a Collin 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 4 of 38
On PlanC2333: Sherman / Paris / Frisco / most of Plano
Texarkana is the 1st. Eastern Plano is the 3rd.

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

The arena: 2026 election — Texas’s 4th

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Texas’s 4th The office · Sherman, Paris, Frisco, and most of Plano