Ritchie Torres
Democrat · NY-15 · U.S. House
Bio
Ritchie John Torres is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 15th congressional district since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served on the New York City Council from 2014 to 2020.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.6 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 269 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 38
- Bronx, NY · 718-503-9610
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $131k – $365k
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $131k – $365k
- Since 2019
- +$165k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Ritchie Torres's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
Ritchie Torres (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.
Do you vote like Torres?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Torressits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Hispanic Caucusstrongly left · 40 members
Committees
- House Committee on Financial Servicescenter · 53 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Torres's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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The Root · June 16, 2026 
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Common Dreams · June 10, 2026
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