Representative Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many people in the South Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience.
Ritchie’s mother single-handedly raised him, his twin brother, and his sister in a public-housing project. She paid the bills working minimum-wage jobs, which in the 1990s paid $4.25 an hour. 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 dollars to build a golf course across the street for Donald Trump. In 2013, at the age of 25, Ritchie became New York City’s youngest elected official and the first openly L.G.B.T.Q. person elected to office in the Bronx.
At the City Council, Ritchie stood out, and during his seven-year tenure he tenaciously tackled problems big and small for the Bronx and New York City. He passed over forty pieces of legislation, including legislation protecting the City’s affordable housing stock and tackling the city’s opioid epidemic. As the Chairman overseeing NYCHA, he held the first committee hearing ever in public housing, which led to a $3 billion-dollar FEMA investment, the largest in NYC history. As Chair of the Oversight & Investigations Committee, Ritchie has led investigations into the heating outages and lead poisoning at NYCHA, the Taxi Medallion scandal, the City’s controversial Third-Party Transfer program, and Kushner Companies.
Ritchie currently lives in the South Bronx and represents NY-15 in the South Bronx. He is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and serves as the Vice Chair of the Committee on Homeland Security.
Committees
House Committee on Homeland Security
Ritchie is the Vice Chair on the House Committee on Homeland Security. He serves on the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection & Innovation and also serves on the Subcommittee on Oversight, Management & Accountability.
House Committee on Financial Services
On the House Committee on Financial Services, Ritchie serves on the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development and Insurance and also serves on the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions.
Congressional Record
| Date | Bill | Description | Member Vote | ||||||||||
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| 2025-12-02 | H.Res.916 | H.Res.916 — | No | ||||||||||
1. H.Res.916 — Providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4312) to protect the name, image, and likeness rights of student athletes and to promote fair competition with respect to intercollegiate athletics, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1005) to prohibit elementary and secondary schools from accepting funds from or entering into contracts with the Government of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1049) to ensure that parents are aware of foreign influence in their child's public school, and for other purposes; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 1069) to prohibit the availability of Federal education funds for elementary and secondary schools that receive direct or indirect support from the Government of the People's Republic of China; providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 2965) to require the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to ensure that the small business regulatory budget for a small business concern in a fiscal year is not greater than zero, and for other purposes; and providing for consideration of the bill (H.R. 4305) to direct the Chief Counsel for Advocacy of the Small Business Administration to establish a Red Tape Hotline to receive notifications of burdensome agency rules, and for other purposes.
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| 2025-12-02 | H.Res.916 | H.Res.916 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-12-02 | H.R.4423 | H.R.4423 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-12-01 | H.R.5348 | H.R.5348 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-21 | H.Con.Res.58 | H.Con.Res.58 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.1949 | H.R.1949 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.3109 | H.R.3109 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.Res.893 | H.Res.893 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.6019 | H.R.6019 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.4058 | H.R.4058 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.5107 | H.R.5107 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-20 | H.R.5214 | H.R.5214 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-19 | H.Res.888 | H.Res.888 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-19 | S.J.Res.80 | S.J.Res.80 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-19 | H.J.Res.131 | H.J.Res.131 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-19 | H.J.Res.130 | H.J.Res.130 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-18 | H.Res.888 | H.Res.888 — | Yea | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-18 | H.Res.878 | H.Res.878 — | Nay | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-18 | H.Res.879 | H.Res.879 — | No | ||||||||||
| 2025-11-18 | H.Res.879 | H.Res.879 — | Nay | ||||||||||
