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Ritchie Torres

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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.

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Mar 27, 2023

Often flights are sent over the same communities that are mostly impacted.

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Mar 27, 2023

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.

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Mar 27, 2023

We must invest in technology and resources to combat air pollution in disadvantaged communities, which causes devastating health consequences, such as asthma.

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Mar 27, 2023

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.

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Mar 27, 2023

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.

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Mar 27, 2023

We are not looking to shut down any port. We are not looking to shut down commerce.

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Mar 27, 2023

On behalf of my constituents, I want to thank you and your staff for all of the assistance that you have provided.

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Mar 27, 2023

We would also love to host you in our district.

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Mar 27, 2023

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.

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Mar 27, 2023

My primary concern is that we need to invest more in these communities, and that starts by ensuring that Federal funding is equitably distributed.

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Mar 27, 2023

We are about 1.5 million housing units short of what we need in this country today.

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Mar 27, 2023

Housing is a crisis across this country. I don't care what State you are in.

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Mar 27, 2023

I just hope that we are not taking the too-big-to-fail approach with some of these housing agencies that are massive.

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Mar 27, 2023

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…

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Mar 8, 2023

I actually want to address that question to Coinbase.

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Mar 8, 2023

And, Mr. Belshe, when it comes to Ether, where is the centralization?

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Mar 8, 2023

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?

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Mar 8, 2023

The CFTC and the SEC seem to be engaged in a regulatory turf war over digital assets.

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Mar 8, 2023

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.

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Jan 11, 2023

I mean, Kevin McCarthy needs every vote he can get, and he needs the vote of George Santos.

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Jan 11, 2023

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…

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Jan 11, 2023

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.

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Jan 11, 2023

Not done mentioned is the fact that George Santos defrauded the voters. He won under fundamentally false pretenses.

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Jan 9, 2023

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…

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