Rep. Ritchie Torres has disclosed 61 buys and 60 sales since Sep 2024

Ritchie Torres is a Democratic representative from New York's 15th Congressional District, serving since 2021( Born March 12, 1988, Torres grew up in public housing in the South Bronx, raised by his single mother who worked minimum-wage jobs, shaping his lifelong commitment to affordable housing and social justice( At 25, he became New York City's youngest elected official and the first openly LGBTQ+ person elected to office in the Bronx( During his seven-year tenure on the New York City Council, he passed over 40 pieces of legislation protecting affordable housing and addressing the opioid epidemic( As Chair of the Committee on Public Housing, he secured a landmark $3 billion FEMA investment for public housing repairs, the largest in New York City history( As Chair of the Oversight & Investigations Committee, he investigated issues including heating outages and lead poisoning at NYCHA, the Taxi Medallion scandal, and Kushner Companies(

In Congress, Torres serves on the Committee on Financial Services and the Committee on Homeland Security, where he is Vice Chair( He represents NY-15, one of the most Democratic-leaning congressional districts in the country, and has become one of the nine co-chairs of the Congressional LGBTQ+ Equality Caucus, marking him as one of the first openly gay Black men and the first openly gay Afro-Latino elected to Congress( The search results provided do not contain information regarding Torres's stock trading activities or any public attention related to the STOCK Act.

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