Ritchie Torres

We cannot simply honor our essential workers with hollow words. We, as a country, have to put our money where our mouth is and do right by them.

She is exactly right. The promise of America is that if you work hard and play by the rules, then you should have access to a decent, dignified life. Too many of our essential workers are paid starvation wages. You have people who are…

Delay is deadly. The longer the delay, the higher the death toll.

It is refreshing to have a new President who is committed to crushing the virus rather than crushing our democracy.

I am proposing prohibiting cyber mercenaries from engaging in cyber operations against their own country or against an ally of the United States.

Even though White Supremacist violence has been the dominant driver of domestic terrorism in the United States for decades, the Federal Government did not designate a White Supremacist group as a terrorist organization until 2020.

The lack of preparedness on the part of the Federal Government for the siege on the U.S. Capitol reflects a deeper problem.

The economic reality for Americans varies widely depending on your ZIP Code, and often depending on the color of your skin.

We should harness the power of this moment to rewrite the social contract with public housing residents and give them the safeties in affordable housing that they deserve, which is long overdue.

I would not be in the United States Congress were it not for public housing, which gave me something that all of us need -- a safe, decent, affordable home.

The worst slumlord in the country is the federal government, which has savagely starved public housing of the funding it desperately needs.

We need to extend the child tax credit which would cut child poverty by 40 percent in the span of one year.

My highest priority is to put my constituents back to work. In the South Bronx the unemployment rate is 25 percent, which is comparable to the joblessness of the Great Depression. We`ve seen a catastrophic loss of income.

It serves as a reminder of the need to investigate everyone in the prior administration who aided and abetted Donald Trump’s attempt to overturn the result of the election. And as far as I’m concerned, Jeffrey Clark should be disbarred…

The dangerous mob that Donald Trump unleashed on the United States Capitol represents a violent assault on the separation of powers and on the peaceful transfer of power that we have long taken for granted. The impeachment of Donald Trump…

The dangerous mob that Donald Trump unleashed on the United States Capitol represents a violent assault on the separation of powers and on the peaceful transfer of power that we have long taken for granted. The impeachment of Donald Trump…

We desperately need an infusion of federal funding from Washington, D.C. to stabilize our families.

The obstructionism of Mitch McConnell is going to be a stumbling block to bring relief to families in greatest need.

My neighbors in the Bronx cannot wait. Like, I have -- there are mostly women of color who are the leaders of the essential workforce, who are leaders in the families of the South Bronx who are struggling to put food on the table, to pay…

If the Democrats win control of the Senate, then it's going to dramatically improve the prospects for bringing relief to state and local governments, to our public transit systems, to our families and businesses.

The election of Joe Biden is going to be a game changer. I think it's going to restore confidence in a vaccination campaign.

We desperately need an infusion of economic support from the federal government. The Coronavirus outbreak demonstrates why we need a comprehensive social safety net in the United States to catch all of us when we fall.

The Coronavirus outbreak has the potential to radically reshape life, as we know it. It could be even more catastrophic economically than 9/11 and the Financial Crisis in 2008.

I was supposed to go to the Marshall Islands for four days and go to Kosrae, Kwajalein and Pohnpei, to meet with the leaders and to give them the assurance that if any of their employees or people to go down to CNMI to work that the…

I wanted to share this with you. I actually have, before this hearing was set, I was set to go down to the Micronesian Islands, meet with the President and the Governors.