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Elizabeth Vences earned an associate's degree in accounting from Houston Community College, a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies and a master's degree in accounting, both from the University of Houston - Downtown College of Business. Elizabeth lives in Houston, Texas.

Elizabeth currently works as an owner broker for Tejas U.S.A. Real Estate. She previously worked as a math teacher at Hogg Middle School.

Elizabeth's campaign for the U.S. House of Representatives to represent Texas District 18 is her first run for public office.

Supports increasing property tax exemptions and ensuring relief for all residents, while advocating for affordable housing and down payment assistance in lower-income areas.

Believes community centers should assist with dealing with addiction and crime by providing after-school programs, counseling, job training, and job referrals, with incentives provided to businesses that do so.

Promises fiscal responsibility for the federal budget by eliminating waste, enforcing accountability, and impose real spending discipline.

- Supports increasing property tax exemptions and ensuring relief for all residents, while advocating for affordable housing and down payment assistance in lower-income areas.
- Believes community centers should assist with dealing with addiction and crime by providing after-school programs, counseling, job training, and job referrals, with incentives provided to businesses that do so.
- Promises fiscal responsibility for the federal budget by eliminating waste, enforcing accountability, and impose real spending discipline.

Economy

Supports expansion of home upkeep assistance to provide clean streets, reliable trash pickup, and basic services everywhere.

- Supports expansion of home upkeep assistance to provide clean streets, reliable trash pickup, and basic services everywhere.

Public Safety

Believes healthcare system should be modeled off Medicaid, "a program that prioritizes care over profit, keeps overhead low, and delivers results."

Supports large employers offering health insurance as a compliment to the public system.

- Believes healthcare system should be modeled off Medicaid, "a program that prioritizes care over profit, keeps overhead low, and delivers results."
- Supports large employers offering health insurance as a compliment to the public system.

Healthcare

As of January 22, 2026, Elizabeth Vences’s website did not contain information on this issue.

Education

For Candidate Elizabeth Vences on Issue energy-and-environment: Supports improving drainage, updating flood maps, supporting emergency plans, and investing in resilient infrastructure to enhance community safety and recovery from extreme weather and flooding.

Supports enhancing community safety and disaster recovery by improving drainage, updating flood maps, supporting emergency plans, and investing in resilient infrastructure.

- Supports enhancing community safety and disaster recovery by improving drainage, updating flood maps, supporting emergency plans, and investing in resilient infrastructure.

Energy & the Environment

Voting & Elections

Promises to pass laws that "protect our country" while rewarding documented immigrants.

- Promises to pass laws that "protect our country" while rewarding documented immigrants.

Foreign Policy and Immigration

Elizabeth Vences

Elizabeth Vences earned an associate's degree in accounting from Houston Community College, a bachelor's degree in interdisciplinary studies from the University of Houston - Downtown College of Business, and a master's degree in accounting from the University of Houston - Downtown College of Business. Elizabeth lives in Houston, Texas.

- Your US Representative represents the interests of your district in the US House of Representatives, the lower house of Congress. Texas currently has 36 US Representatives.
- US Representatives can author, sponsor, debate, and vote on bills that become national law.
- Representatives may serve on congressional committees. Committees focus on certain policy areas, such as transportation, education, or labor. They may also run for higher positions within their party, such as the Speaker of the House or Majority/Minority Leader.
- Representatives are elected to two-year terms. To hold this office, a candidate must be a legal resident of Texas for at least seven years before their election. US Representatives are paid a salary of $174,000/year.