Democrat
Next Election: 2022
Nydia M. Velázquez
New York
202-225-2361
District: 7
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Latest Announcements:
Aug 10 2021 - 11:16 AM
Jul 29 2021 - 6:44 PM
Velzquez Secures Earmark Funding for Local Projects in Massive Bill
Latest Votes: |
May 19 2022 Voted Yes On Passage on HR7688 Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act |
May 19 2022 Voted No On Motion to Recommit on HR7688 Consumer Fuel Price Gouging Prevention Act |
Campaign Finance Summary:
Contributions: $821,446 |
Individual $448,532 |
PAC & SuperPac $372,800 |
Disbursements: $694,477 |
Individual Refunds $18,115 |
Committee Refunds $0 |
Debts Owed $7,737 |
Cash on Hand $310,382 |
Recently Sponsored Bills:
To amend the Small Business Act to provide re-entry entrepreneurship counseling and training services for incarcerated individuals, and for other purposes.
House Small Business Committee
Cosponsors 1
To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to increase the educator expense deduction and allow early childhood educators to take the deduction, and for other purposes.
House Ways and Means Committee
Cosponsors 7
To amend the Fair Housing Act, to prohibit discrimination based on use of section 8 vouchers, and for other purposes.
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 0
To apply the Truth in Lending Act to small business financing, and for other purposes.
House Financial Services Committee
Cosponsors 2
To amend the Public Health Service Act to provide for and support liver illness visibility, education, and research, and for other purposes.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 3
Expressing support for the recognition of September 26, 2021, as "World Contraception Day" and expressing the sense of the House of Representatives regarding global and domestic access to contraception.
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Cosponsors 17
To amend the Higher Education Act of 1965 to provide loan deferment and loan cancellation for certain founders and employees of small business start-ups, to amend the Small Business Act to establish a young entrepreneurs business center, and for other purposes.
House Small Business Committee
Cosponsors 4
To provide for the establishment of COVID-19 and pandemic response centers of excellence, and for other purposes.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 16
To require public benefit corporations to accept cash for certain transportation as a condition of receiving Federal funds, and for other purposes.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Cosponsors 0
To require public benefit corporations to accept cash for certain transportation as a condition of receiving Federal funds, and for other purposes.
House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee
Cosponsors 0
To provide community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups with funding to partner with small and mid-sized restaurants to expand meal access and delivery for low-income and vulnerable populations during, and through 1 year following the end of, a pandemic or public health emergency.
House Agriculture Committee
Cosponsors 6
To provide community-based nonprofit feeding and anti-hunger groups with funding to partner with small and mid-sized restaurants to expand meal access and delivery for low-income and vulnerable populations during, and through 1 year following the end of, a pandemic or public health emergency.
House Agriculture Committee
Cosponsors 6
To direct the Secretary of Commerce, acting through the Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, to improve science, data, and services that enable sound decision-making in response to coastal flood risk, including impacts of sea level rise, storm events, changing Great Lakes water levels, and land subsidence.
House Science, Space, and Technology Committee
Cosponsors 3
To repeal the military surplus program under title 10, United States Code.
House Armed Services Committee
Cosponsors 17
To amend section 1908 of title 41, United States Code, to exempt certain contracts from the periodic inflation adjustments to an acquisition-related dollar threshold.
House Oversight and Reform Committee
Cosponsors 1
To establish a Global Climate Change Resilience Strategy, to authorize the admission of climate-displaced persons, and for other purposes.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 6
To ensure that certain loan programs of the Small Business Administration are made available to cannabis-related legitimate businesses and service providers, and for other purposes.
House Agriculture Committee
Cosponsors 5
To amend the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 to establish grants to reduce the incidence of hate crimes, and for other purposes.
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 8
To amend the Truth in Lending Act to prohibit certain unfair credit practices, and for other purposes.
House Financial Services Committee
Cosponsors 1
To direct the Secretary of Education to make grants for hate crime prevention and prejudice reduction education, and for other purposes.
House Education and Labor Committee
Cosponsors 7
To recognize the right of the People of Puerto Rico to call a status convention through which the people would exercise their natural right to self-determination, and to establish a mechanism for congressional consideration of such decision, and for other purposes.
House Rules Committee
Cosponsors 73
To create a safe harbor for insurers engaging in the business of insurance in connection with a cannabis-related legitimate business, and for other purposes.
House Financial Services Committee
Cosponsors 1
To amend the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to modify the exemptions from certain disclosure requirements.
House Financial Services Committee
Cosponsors 2
To direct the Secretary of Energy to provide grants for energy improvements to certain public buildings, and for other purposes.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 6
To provide for the establishment of a national standard for incorporating a passive identification ability into all firearms sold in the United States, and to require the reporting of lost or stolen firearms to the appropriate law enforcement authorities.
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 0
To establish a grant program to fund the installation of green roof systems on public school buildings, and for other purposes.
House Education and Labor Committee
Cosponsors 7
To amend the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 to require disclosures related to the Paris Climate Agreement, and for other purposes.
House Financial Services Committee
Cosponsors 0
To amend titles XI and XIX of the Social Security Act to stabilize the Medicaid program in Puerto Rico.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 5
To amend chapter 11 of title 35, United States Code, to require the voluntary collection of demographic information for patent inventors, and for other purposes.
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 1
To provide compensation to certain residents of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, for the use of such island for military readiness, and for other purposes.
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 1
To require the Secretary of Health and Human Services to award targeted grants to State, Tribal, Territorial, and local health departments or nonprofit organizations in geographic locations with racial and ethnic minorities and other vulnerable populations disproportionately impacted by COVID-19 to disseminate information regarding the safety and efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines, and for other purposes.
House Energy and Commerce Committee
Cosponsors 19
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as PROMESA).
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 7
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 8
To impose requirements on the payment of compensation to professional persons employed in voluntary cases commenced under title III of the Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stability Act (commonly known as "PROMESA").
House Judiciary Committee
Cosponsors 6