New York's 15th Congressional District
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: On CNN, U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Condemns Two Supreme Court Rulings on Student Loan Debt Forgiveness, LGBTQI+ Rights
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today appeared on CNN’s Inside Politics with Dana Bash where he strongly condemned two Supreme Court rulings in cases dealing with President Biden’s student loan debt forgiveness plan and LGBTQI+ legal protections.
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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Issues Statement on Supreme Court Ruling Ending Affirmative Action in College Admissions
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today issued the following statement on the Supreme Court’s ruling that colleges and universities can no longer consider a person’s race as an express factor in the admissions process – a decision that ends affirmative action
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U.S. Rep. Torres Helps Secure $6,000,000 in Federal Funding to Improve Bus Facilities along Jerome Avenue in the Bronx
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today announced he successfully helped secure $6,000,000 in federal funding through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to implement critical safety and accessibility improvements to bus facilities along Jerome Avenue – a major transportation corridor for public transit users in the Bronx.
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U.S. Reps. Torres, Balint Reintroduce Legislation Promoting More Inclusive Education of LGBTQI+ and Women’s History
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) and Becca Balint (VT-AL) – both Co Chairs of the Congressional Equality Caucus – today reintroduced the “LGBTQI+ and Women’s History Education Act of 2023” following a string of states that have proposed and/or implemented harmful and discriminatory anti-LGBTQI+ education laws.
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Participates in House Financial Services Committee Hearing Featuring Chairman of the Federal Reserve
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, today participated in a hearing where the Hon. Jerome H. Powell, Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, presented the central banking system’s semi-annual monetary policy report to Congress, as required by law.
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U.S. Rep. Torres Holds House Floor to Prevent Devastating Debt Default, Demand Republicans Get Back to Work to Prevent Economic CatastropheU.S.
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today joined more than 80 of his fellow House Democrats on the House floor to demand that the Republican majority return to Washington D.C. and get back to work to pay America’s bills.
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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Files Federal Legislation Requiring Annual Intelligence Report on Uyghur Genocide in Xinjiang, China
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), a member of the House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), today announced he has filed federal legislation – the “Uyghur Genocide Intelligence Review Act” – requiring the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) to submit to Congress an annual report related to the ongoing and brutal genocide of more than one million Uyghurs – a Muslim ethnic minority group in China’s Xinjiang region.
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Participates in Select Committee Hearing Examining Economic Aggression, Competitiveness with Chinese Communist Party
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) last night participated in the third hearing of the House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which aims to work in a bipartisan fashion to address geopolitical, economic, diplomatic, and military threats and challenges between the two global superpowers.
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U.S. Reps. Lawler, Torres Applaud Committee Passage of Bipartisan Bill Establishing a Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords, Push for Floor Vote and Final Passage
U.S. Representatives Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today applauded the passage of their bipartisan legislation, H.R. 3099 – the “Special Envoy for the Abraham Accords Act”, out of the House Foreign Affairs Committee this week and pushed for the bill to be swiftly brought to the floor for a full vote and final passage.
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Questions Key Federal Financial Regulators during Oversight Hearing
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, today questioned key federal financial regulators as part of a statutorily required hearing entitled “Oversight of Prudential Regulators”.
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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Issues Statement on Criminal Charges in Fatal Chokehold of Jordan Neely
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) today issued the following statement on the criminal charges facing Daniel Penny in connection with the chokehold death of Jordan Neely aboard a New York City subway on May 1
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Participates in Joint Subcommittee Hearing on Measuring Regulatory Gaps in Digital Asset Markets
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, today participated in a joint hearing of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion and the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on Commodity Markets, Digital Assets, and Rural Development entitled “The Future of Digital Assets: Measuring the Regulatory Gaps in the Digital Asset Markets”.
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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Issues Statement on Tentative Approval of MTA’s Final Environmental Assessment Report for NYC Congestion Pricing
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) tonight issued the following statement upon the federal government’s tentative approval of the Final Environmental Assessment for the first-in the-nation congestion pricing plan in New York City’s Central Business District.
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U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Issues Statement on Reports of Federal Prosecutors Criminally Charging U.S. Rep. George Santos
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) tonight issued the following statement regarding public reporting that federal prosecutors out of the Eastern District of New York have criminally charged U.S. Representative George Santos (NY-03).
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Participates in House Financial Services Subcommittee Hearing on the National Flood Insurance Program
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, today participated in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance entitled “The Reauthorization of the National Flood Insurance Program: FEMA’s Perspective”
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U.S. Reps. Torres, Espaillat, and Clarke Push for Stronger, More Inclusive Census Race and Ethnicity Standards for Black Latino Populations
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15) this week joined Reps. Adriano Espaillat (NY-13) and Yvette D. Clarke (NY-09) in leading a comment letter to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and U.S. Census Bureau regarding the initial proposal to revise how the federal government collects data on race and ethnicity.
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VIDEO and RUSH TRANSCRIPT: U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres Participates in House Financial Services Subcommittee Hearing on Digital Asset Market Structure
U.S. Representative Ritchie Torres (NY-15), as a member of the House Financial Services Committee, today participated in a hearing of the Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology and Inclusion entitled “Identifying the Regulatory Gaps in the Digital Asset Market Structure”.