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Who They Are: Congress

Juan Ciscomani (R)

District 6 · U.S. House of Representatives, Congress

On the Nov. 3 ballot against Democrat JoAnna Mendoza, who was unopposed in the July primary. Seeking a third term; the Cook Political Report rates the race a toss-up.

How
Elected
Party
Republican
Since
January 2023
Term ends
Jan. 3, 2027
Next election
Nov. 3, 2026
Pay
$174,000 a year, by statute since 2009: 2 U.S.C. § 4501 (Ethics Reform Act of 1989); annual adjustment blocked by Congress every year since 2009.

What the office does

The House is one of the two houses of Congress, which holds the nation's lawmaking power: a bill becomes law only after it passes both the House and the Senate and goes to the president. Members are elected by the people of their district every two years, so every seat is on every even-year ballot.

Bills that raise revenue must start in the House, and the House alone holds the power of impeachment; the Senate then tries the case.

Source: U.S. Constitution, Article I, §§ 1, 2 and 7.

In our reporting

See the whole chart: Congress.

Seat details: official page.

Official congressional portrait, public domain (U.S. government work)

Who They Are was researched and written by Nicholas De Leon with Claude Fable 5.1 from the official pages, election canvasses, statutes and contracts linked on each chart; the reports naming each person are matched by code from What They Decided, and no model wrote any of it. Last updated 10:31 AM MST on October 5, 2026. Read more about how this is made.