Ritchie Torres
The Public Record
Ritchie John Torres is a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 15th congressional district since January 3, 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, Torres has focused on issues such as affordable housing, healthcare, and social justice throughout his tenure. He is known for his advocacy aimed at improving the lives of his constituents and addressing systemic inequalities. Torres made history as one of the first openly LGBTQ Afro-Latino members of Congress, bringing diverse perspectives to legislative discussions.
If I may add too, I would like to know if--you know, what consideration, you know, is taken about these communities when we reroute flight paths.
We must invest in technology and resources to combat air pollution in disadvantaged communities, which causes devastating health consequences, such as asthma.
I wanted to ask for you to send a team of your staff to work with us. I would like to have a roundtable that would include the Governor's office because they are looking to pass bills for buffer zones.
Communities like mine, simply cannot do without your help. And a 20 percent reduction to your team would have, you know, critical negative impacts in my district.
We are not looking to shut down any port. We are not looking to shut down commerce.
On behalf of my constituents, I want to thank you and your staff for all of the assistance that you have provided.
They are also not equal. Where the partnership comes in, we will help, you know, pass through funding, but you will also take, you know, our major bulk of the homeless population or the most needed families into your communities.
My primary concern is that we need to invest more in these communities, and that starts by ensuring that Federal funding is equitably distributed.
We are about 1.5 million housing units short of what we need in this country today.
Housing is a crisis across this country. I don't care what State you are in.
I just hope that we are not taking the too-big-to-fail approach with some of these housing agencies that are massive.
Does that objective include previous violations, for example? I am specifically thinking about housing authorities that might have had State violations for failing to maintain, failing to keep their tenants safe, having predator employees…
What is the central entity from whose efforts I, as an investor, would expect to derive profits with respect to a decentralized asset like Ether?
The CFTC and the SEC seem to be engaged in a regulatory turf war over digital assets.
The lesson learned from the FTX collapse is that companies like FTX--offshore, deregulated, centralized, overleveraged companies--have the highest risk of losing customer funds and defrauding their customers.
I mean, Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get, and he needs the vote of George Santos.
But notice that there's a glaring disconnect between local Republicans, who have heard directly from the voters, and who have called on him to resign, and House Republican leadership, which has been conspicuously silent, about the…
Mr. Santos is the target of criminal investigations, at the local, state, national and international level. So, I support holding him accountable, by every means.
Not done mentioned is the fact that George Santos defrauded the voters. He won under fundamentally false pretenses.
The so-called rules package proposed by House Republicans would perpetuate same disorder, division, and dysfunction that nearly devoured the Republican nominee for Speaker. A single-Member threshold for filing a motion to vacate empowers…





