# United States Representative, District 29 Compare records and positions simply between Angélica María Dueñas or Luz Maria Rivas for United States Representative, District 29 at VoteOrElse.com. On the November 3, 2026 California general election ballot. This person holds your district's seat in the U.S. House of Representatives (2-year term). - Jurisdiction: Federal - Election: November 3, 2026 California general election - Publisher: Vote or Else (https://voteorelse.com) — a free, nonpartisan ballot guide for California voters. No endorsements. - Canonical page: https://voteorelse.com/2026/us-rep-29 - Full ballot: this page covers one race. Every contest on a voter's own ballot, by address, with the same breakdown for each: https://voteorelse.com/ - Sources last retrieved: September 24, 2026 - Source-objectivity score: 93 out of 100 (Very strong), across 10 cited sources. This grades the mix of sources, not the candidates. Rubric: https://voteorelse.com/about#methodology ## On the ballot - **Angélica María Dueñas** — Mother/Community Organizer · Democratic - **Luz Maria Rivas** — Congresswoman · Democratic Representative Luz Maria Rivas took 51.0% of the June 2 vote and fellow Democrat Angélica María Dueñas took 24.9%, so November is a contest between two members of the same party. The district covers the northeast San Fernando Valley. The winner holds one of 435 seats in the U.S. House for a two-year term. A member introduces bills, sits on committees that shape federal legislation, votes on the federal budget and on war powers, and handles casework between constituents and federal agencies. A first-term member is at the bottom of the seniority ladder that governs committee assignments. With two Democrats on the ballot, party is not the axis. The incumbent barely cleared a majority in her own primary and draws the majority of her funding from committees; the challenger is funded entirely by individuals at about a twentieth of the scale. Weigh a first federal term against a same-party challenge running on very different money. ## Luz Maria Rivas Luz Maria Rivas grew up in Pacoima, raised by a single mother, and attended San Fernando High School before earning a B.S. in electrical engineering from MIT and a master's degree from Harvard (campaign site). She worked as an engineer at Motorola, then spent six years in the California Assembly, where her campaign says she secured over 70 million dollars in state funding for San Fernando Valley infrastructure, schools and health care (campaign site). She was elected to Congress in 2025 and was chosen by her Democratic peers as Freshman Leadership Representative (rivas.house.gov). As chair of the Assembly's Natural Resources Committee, Rivas limited legislation that would have loosened housing rules in coastal zones and made it easier for religious institutions to build housing, arguing the Coastal Commission's site-by-site review should stay in place (CalMatters). She was removed from that committee in a 2023 leadership shuffle that favored more pro-housing Democrats (CalMatters). In Congress, she voted in 2026 to move forward with impeachment proceedings against President Trump, saying she wanted "to protect immigrant communities" from what she called "ICE's terror" (rivas.house.gov). She says, "Residents of the San Fernando Valley deserve a Member of Congress who will focus on their needs" (campaign site). She promises to "fight to make sure every family has economic opportunity, protect Social Security and Medicare, and reduce the threat of climate change" (campaign site). She has introduced legislation on methane pollution accountability and telecommunications resilience during disasters, and her office has secured federal funding for Valley bus shelters, a bridge safety project and water infrastructure (rivas.house.gov). **Strengths:** A federal seat, a caucus leadership role, and a documented history of shaping housing bills in the Assembly. **Trade-offs:** One term is a short federal record, and her committee actions slowed some housing bills that other Democrats wanted to pass. **Keep in mind:** Her record shows she used committee power against her own party's housing push; her 2026 impeachment vote is the clearest recent signal of where she stands now. ## Angélica María Dueñas Angélica María Dueñas is a mother and community organizer, by her ballot designation. She has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress. She is challenging Rivas, a fellow Democrat, for this seat. No campaign website or news coverage of her platform or record could be located. That is a gap in what is public, not a comment on her candidacy. With no published platform to draw on, her promises cannot be listed here in her own words. **Strengths:** None documented; no source describing her record or platform beyond her ballot designation could be located. **Trade-offs:** No campaign material or news coverage that could be verified, so voters have almost nothing to weigh against Rivas's record. **Keep in mind:** No record in office to judge; coverage of this race carries little beyond her ballot designation as a mother and community organizer. ## Record in office Angélica María Dueñas has not served in the California Legislature or U.S. Congress; these records cover only those offices. Luz Maria Rivas (Democratic) has served in the U.S. House since 2025 and has sponsored 16 bills in the 119th Congress; none of their bills have become law so far. Per Congress.gov and the public-domain congress-legislators roster, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Record details Rivas — Committees: Natural Resources; Science, Space, and Technology Committee assignments and the most recently signed-into-law bills each record-holder lead-authored, from the official legislative record. ## Financial info - **Angélica María Dueñas** — $37,153 raised (Individuals: $37,153) - **Luz Maria Rivas** — $670,678 raised (Individuals: $311,994; PACs & committees: $356,790) Total raised is all receipts for the 2026 cycle; the breakdown lists direct contributions, so the pieces can sum below the total. Figures are FEC filings through June 30, 2026, per the FEC bulk campaign-finance summaries, retrieved 2026-09-21. ## Review notes - Luz Maria Rivas for Congress may have more bias because it is an advocacy voter guide compared to other formal government and nonprofit journalism sources. ## Sources 1. [CA Secretary of State — Statement of Vote, June 2, 2026 primary (certified 2026-07-10)](https://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/prior-elections/statewide-election-results/primary-election-june-2-2026/statement-vote) 2. [Ballotpedia — June 2026 California primary](https://ballotpedia.org) 3. [rivas.house.gov — Luz Maria Rivas biography](https://rivas.house.gov/about) 4. [rivas.house.gov — Luz Maria Rivas press releases (votes, legislative actions)](https://rivas.house.gov/media/press-releases) 5. [Luz Maria Rivas for Congress — campaign site (biography, priorities, quote)](https://www.luzforcongress.com) 6. [CalMatters — coastal housing streamlining bill and Rivas's committee role (used for her Assembly housing record)](http://calmatters.org/housing/2023/07/california-coast-housing-bill/) 7. [CalMatters — Assembly leadership shuffle and Rivas's removal from Natural Resources chair (used for outcome of her committee stance)](http://calmatters.org/politics/capitol/2023/11/california-legislature-leadership-housing/) 8. [congress-legislators — current members of Congress (unitedstates project)](https://unitedstates.github.io/congress-legislators/legislators-current.json) 9. [Congress.gov — member sponsored legislation (Library of Congress)](https://api.congress.gov/) 10. [FEC — 2026 House & Senate current-campaign financial summaries (bulk data)](https://www.fec.gov/files/bulk-downloads/2026/webl26.zip) ## The rest of the ballot United States Representative, District 29 is one contest among the many a California voter decides on November 3, 2026 — Congress, the Legislature, county, city, and school board races differ by address. 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