In 1998, he became a local deputy to the 58th session of the Congress of Veracruz, where he sat on commissions including Youth and Sports, Economic Development, and Special for Constitutional Reform.
[1] During this time, he also taught courses in political communication, civil procedure and business administration at the Universidad Anáhuac and presided over the Veracruz branch of the PRI's Revolutionary Youth Front.
[1] In 2006, voters in Mota's birthplace of Coatepec[2] sent him back to a legislature, this time the federal Chamber of Deputies, for its 60th Congress, representing Veracruz's 9th district.
[3] He was the vice coordinator of the PRI parliamentary group in the Chamber of Deputies and sat on work commissions as well as those dealing with water rights, education, youth and sports, and government.
[1] In June 2015, voters in the eighth district of Veracruz — which at the time consisted primarily of rural areas of Xalapa[5] – returned Mota to San Lázaro as a deputy to the 63rd Congress.