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House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party
House Committee on Financial Services
Subcommittee on
Housing and Insurance
Subcommittee on
Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
Subcommittee on
National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
Caucus Membership
The Congressional Black Caucus
Congressional Clubhouse Caucus Founder and Chair
Mental Health Caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Chair of the Task Force on Economic Recovery
The LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus
The Future Forum Caucus
The Labor Caucus
15th District
I am honored to serve the residents of New York’s 15th Congressional District located in the Bronx, the essential borough. We are one of New York’s smallest districts geographically, but we are densely populated with hard-working residents, unique local businesses, and a flourishing culture. Our district is home to the neighborhoods of Bathgate, Belmont, Claremont, Clason Point, East Tremont, Fordham, Harding Park, Highbridge, Hunts Point, Little Italy, Longwood, Melrose, Morrisania, Morris Heights, Mott Haven, Soundview, Tremont, Unionport, and West Farms. To browse district-specific population statistics, visit www.census.gov.
Election
Assumed office on Jan. 3, 2021, 1st Term
Previous Public Service Experience
New York City Council, Jan. 1, 2014–Dec. 31, 2020
Inquiries
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Biography
Representative Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him—he governs from lived experience.
Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and his sister in a public-housing project, paying the bills on minimum-wage jobs that paid $4.25 an hour in the 1990s. While Ritchie grew up with mold, lead, leaks, and no reliable heat or hot water in the winter, he watched the government spend over $100 million to build a golf course across the street for Donald Trump.
In 2013, at 25, Ritchie became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to office in the Bronx. In the City Council, he passed over forty pieces of legislation protecting affordable housing and tackling the opioid epidemic. As Chairman overseeing NYCHA, he held the first committee hearing ever in public housing—leading to a $3 billion FEMA investment, the largest in NYC history.
In 2020, Ritchie was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he continues fighting for affordable housing, social justice, and the working families of the Bronx.
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