Fourth Congressional District candidate Sean Bielat will be taking readers' questions in a LIVE text chat today, Oct. 11, starting at noon. 

Bielat, a Republican, is facing Democrat Joe Kennedy III to fill the seat of retiring Congressman Barney Frank, of Newton. 

Today's chat will last roughly an hour. To submit a question, simply enter your name in the chat box above, type your question and submit. 

A recap of the chat will be posted this afternoon. 

Kennedy will participate in a similar live chat Q&A tomorrow, Oct. 12 at 1 p.m.

Questions submitted will be subject to moderator approval. No vulgar or libelous comments will be allowed. Because we expect a high volume of questions for the chat session, we will keep the questions issue-related and not repetitive.