Ritchie Torres

LEGISLATION
FIRE SAFETY
I have legislation establishing safety standards for the manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries. Poorly manufactured lithium-ion batteries have emerged as a growing cause of fires in NYC and beyond.

I am proud to report that the House Energy and Commerce Committee has passed my bill by a vote of 42-0!

Legislating for the people of the Bronx.

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A ceasefire has no greater supporter than Hamas. Why?

A ceasefire would enable Hamas to remain in power, regroup, and rearm so that it can launch an even deadlier terror attack than the one on October 7th.

The US should veto any UN Security Council…

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The notion that the pro-Israel community is “weaponizing” antisemitism to silence criticism of the Israeli government is truly one of the most blatant lies in American politics.

No one is more critical of the Israeli government than Israelis themselves

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I have never met anyone in the pro-Israel community who said that criticism of the Israeli government is antisemitic.

I denounced Ben Gvir as a dangerous despicable disgusting demagogue. Yet no one accused me of antisemitism

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A message for the Anti-Zionists.

Criticism of the Israeli government is not antisemitic.

Calling for the destruction of the Jewish homeland—home to half of the world’s Jewish population—is antisemitic.

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POVERTY
The lowest-income families in the Bronx are often forced to pay predatory fees to transfer their own money to their loved ones abroad.

I spoke to the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) about the need to create a better…

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After witnessing the moral bankruptcy of Harvard and UPENN’s leadership, I said to myself:

I have never been prouder to be a college dropout.

Like most Americans, what I lack in formal education I make up for in moral clarity and moral common sense.

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The crisis of campus antisemitism is revealing higher education to be a misnomer.

The higher ed industrial complex is not “heightening” the American mind.
It is lowering it.

So much of what happens on college campuses is ideological indoctrination…

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The notion that genocidal rhetoric as harassment is “context-dependent” is coldly legalistic.

There is a breed of academics whose humanity has been impoverished rather than enriched by higher education.

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QUESTIONER:
Does calling for a genocide of Jews constitute harassment?

MOST AMERICANS:
Of course.

HARVARD & UPENN:
It is “context-dependent.”

Something is rotten in the state of college campuses, where the loss of moral common sense is not a bug…

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PUERTO RICO I am leading a bipartisan coalition against FEMA's plans to prematurely shut down two emergency power plants in Puerto Rico and deprive 100k Puerto Ricans of electricity.

Estoy liderando una coalición bipartidista contra los planes de FEMA de cerrar prematuramente plantas eléctricas de emergencia en Puerto Rico y privar de electricidad a 100.000 puertorriqueños.

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