Ritchie Torres: “We are not only from the great State of New York but the great county of the Bronx. Education is infrastructure and who…”

“We are not only from the great State of New York but the great county of the Bronx. Education is infrastructure and who better to speak about education than a lifelong educator. Well, before running for Congress, our next speaker was a principal who dedicated his life to educating the students of the northeast Bronx. He is one of the first Black Members of Congress to ever represent Westchester County, which has historically been ground zero for resistance to fair housing. If you have ever seen the movie, ``Show Me a Hero,'' in Yonkers, that is the district of our next speaker. Even though he embodies how far we have come as a country, he knows more than most how far we must go. Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Bowman), the one and only.”