Torres-Gomez was elected the Representative for Leyte's 4th legislative district as substitute candidate for her husband Richard Gomez on May 10, 2010. Gomez was disqualified by the
Commission on Elections (COMELEC) due to his lack of one year residency in the district, a requirement of eligibility for office. On March 19, 2013, the
Supreme Court, ruled on a protest filed by fellow congressional candidate Eufrocino Codilla Jr., ousting Torres-Gomez from office. The Courts said that she "did not validly substitute" her husband. Her ousting did not affect her re-election bid, and she regained her seat in
May of that same year, beating incumbent Ormoc Mayor Eric Codilla. In May 2016, Torres-Gomez was again
re-elected as representative, defeating Violeta Codilla. As congresswoman, Torres-Gomez has principally authored over 100 bills and co-authored 35. She is the chairperson of the
House Committee on Disaster Resilience, and the vice chairperson of committees on
Tourism, and
Women and Gender Equality, and the special committee on
Creative Industry and Performing Arts. Although she is a Marian devotee, Torres-Gomez voted in favor of a bill reimposing the death penalty in March 2017, reasoning that it was only limited to those who engaged in the illegal drug trade. Torres-Gomez, together with husband
Richard Gomez, was a member of the then-ruling
Liberal Party during her early political career, but left in June 2016 to join the
Partido Demokratiko Pilipino–Lakas ng Bayan (PDP–Laban) shortly after
Rodrigo Duterte won the
presidential election. At the height of the
COVID-19 pandemic in June 2020, Torres-Gomez expressed her support for the controversial
Anti-Terrorism Act of 2020, stating that fear of the abuse of law is not a valid reason to reject needed legislation. The bill was signed into law as Republic Act No. 11479 on July 3, 2020. The law's constitutionality was challenged in the
Supreme Court by multiple groups and were later declared unconstitutional some parts of thaw law.
Controversies Torres-Gomez and her husband, representative
Richard Gomez of
Leyte's 4th district, have been alleged by
Albuera, Leyte mayoral candidate Kerwin Espinosa to be connected to an assassination attempt on his life on April 10, 2025. In his claim, Espinosa stated that Ormoc police chief Reydante Ariza, a suspect in the incident, would have only answered to the Gomez couple, though he refrained from accusing them outright of instructing Ariza to target him. while Torres-Gomez would later file both a disqualification case and a criminal case against Espinosa for challenging her husband to a gun duel, which she deemed a threat against his life. ==Personal life==