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 Nov 22, 2022. 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

Enacted Legislation

Torres was the primary sponsor of 1 bill that was enacted:

• H.R. 5320: Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Exchange Improvement Act

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Does 1 not sound like a lot? Very few bills are ever enacted — most legislators sponsor only a handful that are signed into law. But there are other legislative activities that we don’t track that are also important, including offering amendments, committee work and oversight of the other branches, and constituent services.

We consider a bill enacted if one of the following is true: a) it is enacted itself, b) it has a companion bill in the other chamber (as identified by Congress) which was enacted, or c) if at least about half of its provisions were incorporated into bills that were enacted (as determined by an automated text analysis, applicable beginning with bills in the 110^th Congress).

Bills Sponsored

Issue Areas

Torres sponsors bills primarily in these issue areas:

Finance and Financial Sector (22%) Crime and Law Enforcement (16%) Government Operations and Politics (14%) Immigration (11%) Housing and Community Development (11%) International Affairs (11%) Transportation and Public Works (8%) Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues (8%)

Recently Introduced Bills

Torres recently introduced the following legislation:

• H.Res. 1428: Condemning, in the strongest terms, cyberattacks carried out by the Government of Iran.
• H.Res. 1401: Expressing continued support for the people of Puerto Rico, and calling for the …
• H.Res. 1375: Recognizing the history between Haiti and France, acknowledging Haiti as the first free …
• H.R. 8795: Wayne Ford Racial Impact Statement Act of 2022
• H.R. 8794: Miranda Rights Restoration Act of 2022
• H.Res. 1286: Expressing the sentiment of Congress that the Department of Health and Human Services …
• H.R. 8390: To require the Department of Defense to share best practices with, and offers …

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Most legislation has no activity after being introduced.

Voting Record

Key Votes

Missed Votes

From Jan 2021 to Nov 2022, Torres missed 6 of 920 roll call votes, which is 0.7%. 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