Ritchie Torres

But I know that voters are highly motivated because of the extremism of the Republican Party, particularly on the issue of abortion of the right wing judicial activism from the Supreme Court and the frontal assault on our democracy.

But unfortunately, Republicans have a greater interest in demagoguing the issue of immigration and playing political games rather than actually solving the problem.

There should be an orderly process by which migrants are sent for the right places with services and shelter. You know, I find the behavior of Governor Abbott to be embarrassingly juvenile. You know, he’s treating these migrants not as…

As a result, election offices across the country are struggling to retain a trained staff.

Unfortunately, we did not get bipartisan support to implement the task force's recommendations.

The Russian government targeted election infrastructure and exploited social media to spread conspiracy theories.

Free and fair elections are the bedrock of our democracy.

We must defend it fiercely and protect the institutions that uphold it.

What efforts are being undertaken to ensure that the encryption of blockchain is quantum resistant?

Expecting applicants to have a preexisting policy is nonsensical because the hazard pay was itself an emergency response to COVID.

The justification was adequately documented. It was COVID-19.

But you recognize that hazard pay could be a critical tool for sustaining and retaining a work force that is in danger of burning out and turning over in a global pandemic?

It was, in fact, used during COVID.

Those words come to mind when I think of COVID-19, which has become the seminal catastrophe of the 21st Century.

Do you believe as I do that hazard pay for our health care heroes was a critical component of the response to COVID-19?

Hospitals in New York are bleeding and instead of treating it as an emergency, it feels to us like FEMA is moving bureaucratically as though it were business as usual.

In the wake of SolarWinds, President Biden issued Executive Order 14028 requiring all agencies to either implement multi-factor authentication by November or provide a reason for failing to do so.

It has been 11 years since the passage of Dodd-Frank... and yet, in spite of it all, a Section 1033 rule has not yet been implemented.

There are Federal regulators such as the SEC and the CFPB that have a practice of allowing corporate bad actors to enter into settlements and pay a fine without ever admitting wrongdoing.

Can you see to it that FEMA responds to our request as soon as possible?

FEMA owes New York State health care providers billions of dollars in reimbursements.

As you know, I have legislation that would require self-closing doors in federally funded affordable housing developments.

What about since the fire? How many inspections? If you don't have the data, can you get the committee that information?

We know that if the self-closing door had been properly functioning at Twin Parks North West, the smoke would have been contained and countless lives would have been saved.

Congress should move forward on two of the bills before the subcommittee today, introduced by Congressman Torres.