Ritchie Torres

Is there a time line for that review?

Are you open to designating Guatemala and redesignating El Salvador, Honduras, and Nicaragua for Temporary Protected Status?

It has done incalculable damage to the public trust that lies at the foundation of public safety.

It has led to the weaponization of local law enforcement against immigrants and their families.

Housing quality matters as much as housing affordability, and the CDBG program has been an indispensable safeguard of housing quality in America's largest city.

I am a strong supporter of the CDBG program and the flexibility it provides to State and local governments.

I affirm that Puerto Ricans have a language, a history, a culture, and a proud legacy of resistance against both Spanish and U.S. colonization.

Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rico are just any other group of Americans. They deny that Puerto Rico is a nation, that Puerto Ricans are a people.

It saddens me that after 50 years of Puerto Rican congressional representation... the 15th Congressional District in the Bronx remains the poorest district of all the 50 states.

When I was sworn in the week of January 6, I never imagined living through an insurrection against the U.S. Capitol during the electoral college vote count. On January 6, I felt the same sense of shock and trauma that I had felt on 9/11…

I thank Mr. Johnson for his deep insight and kind words earlier. Some background on Tulsa, Oklahoma: The district of Greenwood in its time was famously described by Booker T. Washington as ``Black Wall Street.'' It was so named because it…

I am honored to share today's Special Order hour on Black Wall Street on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus, which is chaired by our great leader, Congressmember Joyce Beatty. I want to extend my condolences to Congressmember Beatty…

Earlier in the week, a public official posted on Twitter the following image of a map where the State of Israel is nowhere to be found. There is nothing accidental about the omission. Wiping Israel off the map is the objective of the BDS…

In the United States, there are 1.4 million LGBTQ businesses contributing more than $1.7 trillion to the American economy. We have a vested interest in sustaining and strengthening those businesses with equal access to credit, which is the…

So, we should strive toward humane reunification between these migrants and their families here.

Do you think the American people would want their country to close the borders to unaccompanied minors?

Is it fair to say that the Trump administration's suspension of the Central American Minors Program is one example of how the Trump administration made the situation at the border worse for the Biden administration?

Is it fair to say that migrants who are risking their lives on the treacherous journey are doing so because of their inability to apply for asylum from within their home countries?

I have heard several Republicans raise questions about the efficacy of humanitarian assistance, but humanitarian assistance has a successful track record in history.

It is important to note that migration is an episodic event. It is not unique to the Biden administration.

By contrast, what does the Biden administration profess to do to address the instability driving immigration?

According to The Washington Post, the administration plans to propose only a temporary rather than a permanent expansion of the child tax credit. Allowing the child tax credit to expire in 2025 is a colossal misjudgment whose consequences…

Is it true that in response to that warning of mission failure you waited 4 months before hiring only 1 staffer?

Then, finally, during your confirmation hearing, you promised to ensure that the Whistleblower Protection Unit would be robustly staffed.

But you would agree that if the confidentiality of a whistleblower were compromised that that is the kind of breach of trust that would inflict irreparable damage to the integrity of an inspector general?