Welcome to the website of Congressman Ritchie Torres Proudly serving New York's 15th District

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 Bronx, poverty and struggle have never been abstractions to him, and he governs from a place of lived experience.

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 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.

I am honored to serve the residents of New York’s 15th Congressional District located in the Bronx, the essential borough. New York’s 15th District is home to nearly 740,000 residents who come from all over the world. Stretching across the North and South of the Bronx in New York City, our district is home to the neighborhoods of Allerton, Bathgate, Baychester, Belmont, …

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Jul 11, 2024 · Today, Congressmen Ritchie Torres (NY-15) and Mike Lawler (NY-17) led 33 members of Congress in a letter to President Joe Biden, urging him to nominate a Presidential Envoy for the Abraham Accords, Negev Forum, and Related Integration and Normalization Fora and Agreements.

Oct 24, 2024 · Today, Congressman Ritchie Torres (NY-15) held a press conference at 425 Grand Concourse in the South Bronx to announce the introduction of the ASAP Housing Act into the U.S. House of Representatives.

Sep 25, 2024 · Led by Representative Ritchie Torres, the New York Delegation is making it clear that these pending Medicare cuts will further threaten the already severe underfunding of home health services and the related, unprecedented shortages of nurses and fellow direct care staff.

– Today, Representative Torres announced $16,214,637 in Community Project Funding that he previously secured for New York’s 15th District in the House spending bills has been included in the final 2023 appropriations government funding package.

Jan 16, 2025 · Today, New York Congressmen Ritchie Torres (NY-15) and Mike Lawler (NY-17) are celebrating the passage of H.R.9106, the Enhanced Presidential Security Act of 2024, by a vote of 405-0.