Deleted Tweets From Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.

RT @RitchieTorres: It is a disgrace that more than 3 million American citizens in Puerto Rico have no affordable and reliable electric… https://t.co/MSYcRD0yOy

The Jones Act is preventing urgently needed fuel from reaching Puerto Rico. RT if you support an emergency waiver for Puerto Rico from the Jones Act. https://t.co/GiNu9O5rpJ

RT @RitchieTorres: The Jones Act is preventing urgently needed fuel from reaching Puerto Rico. RT if you support an emergency waiver… https://t.co/szejbnxulE

Update on Puerto Rico https://t.co/ER3JQeleah

RT @therecount: Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) calls on the Biden administration to bypass the Jones Act and issue an emergency waiver… https://t.co/lYZxTeXUcR

The Jones Act is preventing urgently needed fuel from reaching Puerto Rico during a major disaster. RT if you supporting exempting Puerto Rico from the Jones Act. https://t.co/PrqCwsN8Zb

Updates on Puerto Rico: NO ELECTRICITY: 33% NO WATER: 13% NO ELECTRICITY (By Region): San Juan: 92% Bayamón:93% Caguas: 68% Arecibo: 65% Maragüez: 33% Ponce: 27%

It was a pleasure meeting Children’s Aid CEO and President Phoebe C. Boyer as well as Michelle Avila, their Assistant Director of Public Policy. https://t.co/alFcnosVRF

Haiti is suffering from decades of systemic abuse and mismanagement from its colonizers. That is why Rep. Yvette Clarke and I have introduced a resolution to help repair decades of colonial exploitation and injustice. https://t.co/6bMVaijGKK

#ShanaTova to all our friends and family celebrating #RoshHashanah around the world. https://t.co/0C5y4Oyopj

RT @RitchieTorres: Puerto Rico has no reliable electrical grid and yet it’s residents had SEVEN rate increases in one year. That’s col… https://t.co/CX2zn2SJrB

RT @RitchieTorres: Puerto Rico has no reliable electrical grid and yet it’s residents had SEVEN rate increases in one year. That’s col… https://t.co/CX2zn2SJrB

Today on #BiVisibilityDay, I’m celebrating the bisexual+ community. Alongside my colleagues in the @LGBTEqCaucus , I am committed to ensuring bisexual+ people have the equality, recognition, and validation they deserve.

The federal government must do more in rebuilding Puerto Rico's electrical grid. That is why I am leading a letter to call on @fema, @HUDgov,and @ENERGY to make every conceivable effort to expedite the rebuilding of the electric grid in Puerto Rico. https://t.co/ZVLLOe0hPX

Thousands died in the disaster and its aftermath. Today, Puerto Rico is still suffering after Hurricane Fiona. We must continue to invest in Puerto Rico to ensure that a natural disaster doesn’t cripple the Island again. #PuertoRico

“Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it,” and today due to the lack of investment and action, Puerto Rico is again destroyed after a Hurricane. 5 years ago today, Hurricane Maria struck Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. https://t.co/HU8BjHhdLN

La reconstrucción de la red eléctrica en Puerto Rico es el proyecto de infraestructura de mayor necesidad en los EE. UU. En la Cámara, se pasó una enmienda que requiere al gobierno federal se responsabilice de acelerar la reconstrucción de la red eléctrica.

RT @nicolegelinas: Read @RitchieTorres op ed today on what a disaster the current working version of congestion pricing would be for t… https://t.co/Zdw5gu4eED

Great meeting today with Puerto Rician Representatives José Enrique Meléndez and José Che Pérez. We discussed crucial legislation to help the people of Puerto Rico and the importance of redeveloping Puerto Rico's energy grid. https://t.co/LFAGlubkbX

RT @RitchieTorres: Does the GOP really think that it can strip 167 million women of control over their own bodies and get away with it… https://t.co/2r8qWNpTxZ

“Even though I have long been a principled proponent of congestion pricing, I object to any plan that would divert diesel truck traffic from Manhattan to the Bronx…” “The Bronx cannot and will not be a sacrificial lamb on the altar of the Central Business District.” QT @NYDailyNews: OPINION | Spare the Bronx in congestion plan, Congressman Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) writes @RitchieTorres I have be… https://t.co/NpKkDkYZE9)

RT @JustinBrannan: My good friend Congressman @RitchieTorres breaks it down: as we head into the midterms, voters are rejecting radica… https://t.co/K3Pui8G4A1

RT @RitchieTorres: Those of us in Congress have taken an oath to defend the rule of law—not make excuses for mob rule. QT @Acyn: Graham says there will be riots in the streets if Trump is prosecuted https://t.co/oE6MyuqjeA)

So much for “law-and-order” Republicans. The party of Trump is the party of lawlessness and disorder. #DefundFBI is the new #DefundPolice. https://t.co/xKpHZkTmvU

Honored to host @HHS_ASH in the Bronx & celebrate Inflation Reduction Act: Cuts greenhouses gas emissions 40% by 2030. Empowers Medicare to negotiate affordable drug prices for seniors. Caps cost of Insulin at $35 a month for seniors. Preserves health care for 13 million. https://t.co/c8TvcnZ2uZ

@sam_d_1995 @2AvSagas No one in their right minds thinks that the implacable opponents of congestion pricing give a damn about the Bronx.

It’s not about owing anyone to anything. It’s about building a working relationship with your colleagues. The sheer breadth of support for @Camilo4NY (the Mayor, the 2 local Congressmen, the Bronx BP, nearly every local elected…) is a vote of no confidence in the alternative. QT @ZackFinkNews: Much of political establishment coalescing around @Camilo4NY If the low turnout June primary was any guide, that… https://t.co/Rtxpho12DW)

Asas unthinkable as it might seem, we cannot dismiss the possibility of polio spreading to a larger number of people. Even as we hope for the best, we must prepare for the worst.

I led a Congressional hearing on election security. 1 in 6 election workers have been the target of threats. Violence, intimidation, and harassment against election workers are in danger of becoming a new normal. The impact of #TheBigLie extends far beyond Jan 6.

RT @RitchieTorres: LEGISLATION In the House, I passed the "Empowering US Fire Administration Act,” which empowers the @usfire to inves… https://t.co/CqBAM65ILB

A big thank-you to the following CBOs: Eastside Community Settlement Mosholu Montefiore Community Center Lincoln Hospital Rain Gunhill Senior Center Riverdale Neighborhood Home

RT @ABCNewsLive: New York Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres reacts to Roe v. Wade being overturned. https://t.co/CiL2pkr402 https://t.co/T1oTj0Pds0

If we try to be too clever legislatively, we might risk an even more egregious decision from the Supreme Court.

I am in favor of expanding the Supreme Court. But there’s this minor challenge called the filibuster. I am sure you’ve heard of it. But maybe you have a magic wand that make it all disappear. On Twitter, anything is possible. QT @KeithOlbermann: The Supreme Court is imposing minority theocratic rule on this country. Exactly how is it going to get "more egregi… https://t.co/GuDVajzJGM)

The Supreme Court has held that women in 2022 should have less liberty and privacy and equality—less control over their own bodies—than they did in 2021. A dangerous and disgraceful decision that will turn back the clock a half a century. QT @AP: BREAKING: U.S. Supreme Court overturns the landmark Roe v. Wade case, ending nearly 50 years of constitutional prot… https://t.co/pUdimj0ELE)

Wrong. Not even the First Amendment is absolute. Shouting fire in a theater is not constitutionally protected speech. QT @virginiafoxx: It’ll surely pain my Democrat colleagues to hear this, but I’ll say it anyway: the Constitution is absolute. https://t.co/v3dzLAkxbf)

January 6th was a violent assault on democracy and the peaceful transfer of power upon which it depends. There is simply no far-left equivalent of the fat-right insurrectionists who invaded the US Capitol in a violent attempt to overturn the results of an election. QT @sullydish: $2 billion in property damage in the 1619 riots - which were followed by a surge in murders of black Americans. You… https://t.co/iMWA73tzTz)

If a country more guns than its peers and have less regulations of those guns than its peers, what do you think will happen? It hardly takes Einstein to understand the link between guns and gun violence.

The sadism of the assault is sickening. The City of New York (@nycgov) must do far more to secure our subways and streets, which have been plagued by violence. No community—AAPI or otherwise—should live in fear in their own city. QT @activeasian: A group of men attack a man in a New York subway. The victim looks to be Asian. Asking for the public’s help in ide… https://t.co/DepoqdHJqO)

@EmiliaDecaudin I never said the term ‘Latinx” should NEVER be applied. However challenging it might be for you, try reading the whole thread next time: https://t.co/f7WueD8PLq QT @RitchieTorres: If you are speaking to a particular person who prefers ‘Latinx,’ then, by all means, use the term. But if you a… https://t.co/yzZTGPekTT)