Ritchie Torres represents America’s poorest Congressional district in the House of Representatives. In this video, Congressman Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx, explains how he overcame poverty and personal challenges to make it to Capitol Hill and what he thinks needs to be done to address some of the most pressing issues in New York and the nation, from the explosion of homelessness to the intersection of incarceration and institutionalization. Congressman Torres also explains how all of those problems are coming to a head in America’s Great Power competition with hostile foreign adversaries like Russia and China.
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