Rep. Ritchie Torres

Analysis

Ideology–Leadership Chart

Torres is shown as a purple triangle ▲ in our ideology-leadership chart below. Each dot is a member of the House of Representatives positioned according to our ideology score (left to right) and our leadership score (leaders are toward the top).

The chart is based on the bills Torres has sponsored and cosponsored from Jan 3, 2017 to Dec 2, 2021. See full analysis methodology.

Committee Membership

Ritchie Torres sits on the following committees:

• House Committee on Financial Services
  Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions, Housing, Community Development, and Insurance, National Security, International Development, and Monetary Policy subcommittees
• House Committee on Homeland Security
  Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Innovation, Oversight, Management, and Accountability subcommittees

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Torres sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (36%) Immigration (21%) Transportation and Public Works (14%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (14%) Government Operations and Politics (14%)

Recent Bills

Some of Torres’s most recently sponsored bills include...

• H.Res. 699: Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that there should be established …
• H.R. 5320: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Exchange Improvement Act
• H.R. 5301: To amend title 38, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Veterans …
• H.R. 4980: To direct the Secretary of Homeland Security to ensure that any individual traveling …
• H.R. 4901: Public Housing Procurement Improvement Act of 2021
• H.R. 4611: DHS Software Supply Chain Risk Management Act of 2021
• H.Res. 510: Recognizing the month of June as “Immigrant Heritage Month”, a celebration of the …

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Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Dec 2021, Torres missed 5 of 401 roll call votes, which is 1.2%. This is better than the median of 2.1% among the lifetime records of representatives currently serving. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses and major life events.

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Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

• unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
• The House and Senate websites, for committee membership and voting records
• Office of Rep. Torres for the photo
• GovInfo.gov, for sponsored bills