Ritchie Torres

It’s official. We won! It is the honor of a lifetime to be able to serve our community in Washington DC. The counting took longer than expected, but today the @BOENYC certified our victory & I want to say thank you..

The shift toward digital-only gaming is restricting gamers’ affordability and access to their own games.

Imagine purchasing a video game, only to discover a few years later that you can no longer play it—even though you paid for it.

I am introducing the Power to the Players Act to defend your right to own, transfer, and play the games you purchase.

It’s time to return power where it belongs: to the players.

A lithium-ion battery fire at Patterson Houses killed four members of the same family. Poorly made lithium-ion batteries are ticking time bombs in our homes. What happened in the South Bronx can happen anywhere in America.

I passed a House bill establishing federal safety standards for these batteries. The Senate must stop delaying and pass it.

Over the weekend, I traveled to Berlin with a delegation of constituents to commemorate the 88th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-organized pogrom that saw the widespread destruction of Jewish businesses and synagogues, foreshadowing the horrors of the Holocaust.

I never imagined returning to America to discover that, during the same week as Kristallnacht’s anniversary, extremists had organized a boycott of Jewish businesses, declaring, “These Zionist establishments must go.”

We are unlearning the lessons of history at great peril not only to our Jewish brothers and sisters but also to ourselves.

I attended a heartbreaking vigil for Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old boy murdered in broad daylight. The grief, shock, and trauma we all feel across the Bronx are soul-crushing.

No child should fear being gunned down on the way to school. No child.

No parent should have to bury a child.