Quick Information
House Committee on Homeland Security, Vice Chair
Subcommittee on
Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, & Innovation
Subcommittee on
Oversight, Management, & Accountability
House Committee on Financial Services
Subcommittee on
Housing, Community Development, and Insurance
Subcommittee on
Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions
Caucus Membership
The Congressional Black Caucus
The Congressional Hispanic Caucus, Chair of the Task Force on Economic Recovery
The LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus
The Congressional Progressive 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 New York’s smallest district geographically, but we are densely populated with hard-working residents, unique local businesses, and a flourishing culture. Among the district’s many world-famous attractions are Yankee Stadium, the Bronx Zoo, the New York Botanical Garden, and Arthur Ave-Little Italy. 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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Short Biography
Rep. Ritchie Torres is a fighter from the Bronx who has spent his entire life working for the community he calls home. Like many in the South Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him. At 25, Ritchie became NYC’s youngest elected official and the first openly LBGTQ person elected in the Bronx. He represents New York’s 15th Congressional District and is a member of the Financial Services Committee and serves as the Vice Chair of the Homeland Security Committee.
Long Biography
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 twenty-five, 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.
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