Ritchie Torres

I feel strongly that Congress should act swiftly to lower the de minimis threshold for imports in order to prevent poorly-manufactured lithium-ion batteries from saturating the American market.

I am advancing legislation, H.R. 1797, that empowers the Consumer Product Safety Commission to establish safety standards.

Climate change has significantly increased the frequency, intensity, and destructiveness of wildfires.

We have a serious gun violence problem in our country, and I hope my colleagues will work together to pass common-sense reforms.

The United States has a strategic interest in maintaining a unipolar financial system built on the U.S. dollar, but I wonder if America has been too aggressive in the use of sanctions?

I am wondering if we are seeing in the American financial system the paradox of more regulation having the unintended consequence of causing less regulation.

Is it fair to say, as U.S. Treasury Secretary, that you are prepared to do whatever is necessary to prevent a second wave of bank failures?

Do you share these concerns, and how closely are you monitoring the situation at New York Community Bank?

My own life journey, from public housing in the Bronx to the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., is a product of public investment in affordable housing.

I thank Ranking Member Meeks for his friendship and mentoring, and I thank Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Meeks for setting the gold standard of bipartisanship here in Congress. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from New York (Mr…

Should it be Chair Gary Gensler, an unelected bureaucrat who answers only to himself, or should it be the United States Congress, whose Members are elected by and therefore accountable to the people?

The failed wars in Afghanistan and Iraq added trillions of dollars to the debt and both began under a Republican President. The 2001, 2003, and 2017 tax cuts added trillions to the debt and each one began under a Republican President. The…

The latest bank failures have held up a mirror to the two-tiered banking system in the United States.

Offshore, deregulated, over-leveraged companies, like FTX, carry the greatest risk of losing customer funds.

Even the Investor Advisory Committee, which favors Gary Gensler's approach to enforcement, concedes that there is, in fact, a need for regulatory clarity.

Here in Congress, we have what I would describe as an anti-crypto derangement syndrome that clouds clear thinking about crypto regulation.

If the United States continues driving crypto offshore, there will be more offshore companies, more companies in the offshore deregulated mold of FTX.

I will not support any stablecoin legislation that preempts the New York State Department of Financial Services or otherwise encroaches on the sovereignty of New York State.

There is a long tradition of dual regulation. Just like banking has both a Federal option and a State option, stablecoin issuance should have both a Federal option and a State option.

We have to make sure that you are able to continue to be that good employer that you are and continue to be able to receive the assistance that you need.

I would like to know if it is possible to get a little more information from you or from your folks about what are your needs assessment.

I represent the 35th Congressional District in southern California. I do not have a Tribe in my district.

I would like to get your commitment that this relationship and communication will improve.

I just think that we need to increase the public awareness, maybe through PSAs, about what is acceptable and unacceptable.

This is incredible and unacceptable.