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U.S. Representative · New York 15th District
Ritchie Torres
DemocratDistrict D+27119th CongressOn the ballot 2026
Typical swing score36#257 of 433 representatives across tracked bills
Contact Ritchie Torres’s office
Official D.C. office details from the congress-legislators datasetWashington, D.C. office1414 Longworth House Office Building Washington DC 20515-3215
Model
Directional: count only breaks toward the other partyWhy do scores change?v3default (selected)v2 model swing-v2
Signals to watch
What in this member’s district, record and ideology could move them, and in which direction. Their score is the same on every bill they haven’t committed to, so these are the things to watch.Could pull them toward Republicans · 2 signals
- StrongBacks 45 Republican-led tracked billsSponsor or active cosponsor of 45 of the 2090 tracked bills that were introduced by Republicans: H.R. 323, H.R. 842, H.R. 879, H.R. 909, H.R. 979 and 40 more.
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 323 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located at 80 Prospect Street in Avon, New York, as the "Officer Anthony Mazurkiewicz Memorial Post Office Building".
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 842 Nancy Gardner Sewell Medicare Multi-Cancer Early Detection Screening Coverage Act
- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 879 Medicare Patient Access and Practice Stabilization Act of 2025
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- Sponsored or cosponsored: H.R. 909 Crime Victims Fund Stabilization Act of 2025
- Sponsored or cosponsored: AM Radio for Every Vehicle Act of 2025
Term and election
From the congress-legislators datasetOn the ballot 2026
- Current term
- January 3, 2025 – January 3, 2027
- Next election
- November 3, 2026
- Years in office
- 5.8 years
Committees
Seats on a bill’s committee of referral add a in swing-v3- House Committee on Financial ServicesMinority · 17th in seniority
- Subcommittee on Housing and Insurance
- Subcommittee on National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions
- Subcommittee on Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
- House Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist PartyMinority · 7th in seniority
Voting ideology
first dimension, from VoteviewD median
R median
Torres← More liberal (−1)More conservative (+1) →
Their score of -0.311 is 0.08 to the right of the House Democratic median (-0.393).
Advocacy scorecards
Their rating vs. the House Democratic average- 119th Congress0House Democratic average: 1 (n=210)
Swing score by bill
swing-v3 · a bill marks a member as committed to itShowing 601–650 of 1962 tracked bills, best swing first
| Bill | Their role | Swing score · | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| S.J.Res. 196A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Department of Education relating to "Reimagining and Improving Student Education-Federal Student Loan Program Final Regulations".Summary on Congress.gov | No position yetNow in the Senate | No recorded vote | 42
| Middle |