Nurses like Matt and Kalina shouldn’t be forced to compete with Wall Street hedge funds just to find a safe, affordable home in the community they serve. Their story inspired my bipartisan Families First Housing Act to ban institutional investors from gobbling up local houses.

One of the most damning things I’ve found is this: NYSEG sent $450 million to Spain, knowing full well they’d turn around a few months later and try to stick Upstate ratepayers with the bill. That’s a shakedown.

#ICYMI I'm introducing a first-of-its-kind federal caucus to recruit folks from around the country in our fight against Upstate New York's utility monopolies. Read more👇 prospect.org/2026/01/22/m...

In Upstate New York, we believe in basic human decency. That’s why I cosponsored articles of impeachment to remove Kristi Noem from office. You don’t get to oversee masked agents gun down Americans in the streets, tear-gas babies, and trample the Constitution and then keep your job.

I'm heartbroken and furious at the news of yet another fatal shooting in MN. I voted to block additional ICE funding, I’m demanding a complete and transparent investigation, and I'm fighting to unmask ICE agents. There must be accountability.

I'm taking on the utility monopolies to drive down your bills, and now I'm proud to launch the Lowering Utility Bills Caucus—bringing together folks from across the country to join the fight. We're taking our power back.

Having masked agents tearing apart and terrorizing families isn’t who we are, it doesn’t make us safer, and I won't support it. My statement on DHS funding:

My statement on military action in Venezuela:

Utility CEOs are cashing million-dollar bonuses while Upstate families are choosing between heat, medicine, and groceries. I just introduced a bipartisan bill to stop utility companies from paying CEO bonuses while ratepayers get crushed. Enough is enough.

I do, and I will. www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-sto...

I am proud to have secured $2.6M for a new fire station in Guilford, upgraded primary care in Margaretville, and a permanent clinic in South Fallsburg. These projects will make our communities safer and our people healthier, and I’ll keep working to deliver for every corner of NY-19.

For too long, rural America has been sold out and left behind by corporations that treat our neighbors like numbers on a spreadsheet. Those days are over. I’m demanding the CEO’s of America’s largest health insurance companies answer for slashing Medicare Advantage plans in Upstate New York.

Last week I met a man at Home Depot grabbing every extra shift he can just to cover rent, groceries, and crushing healthcare bills and he’s still falling behind. This budget does nothing for him. I voted no because working people shouldn’t suffer while billionaires cash in.

Republicans control the House, Senate, and White House, and instead of helping folks keep the lights on, they’re shutting the government down. It’s unacceptable. www.dailyfreeman.com/2025/11/07/d...

This is absurd. Our seniors deserve so much better than jammed phone lines, glitchy websites, and shuttered Social Security offices. I introduced the Social Security Access Act to ensure every American can access online, over the phone, and in person Social Security services.

I wrote Secretary Rollins demanding she use contingency funds to make SNAP payments to the over 80,000 people across NY-19 at risk of losing benefits due to the government shutdown. I’ll continue fighting to ensure the most vulnerable in our community receive the nutrition assistance they need.

Adelita Grijalva was elected a month ago, but Mike Johnson refuses to seat her because he knows she’ll be the deciding vote to release the Epstein files. I joined Freshman Democrats in demanding she be sworn in. Stop protecting predators. Let the people be heard.

Political violence has no place in this country. We all have a responsibility to take the temperature down. Grateful to local, state, and federal authorities for their swift action. www.cnn.com/2025/10/21/p...

I’ll never stop fighting to keep care close to home. At our Sullivan County town hall this week, we talked about the fight to protect rural hospitals, lower utility bills, and make sure every Upstate family can get the care they need. wjffradio.org/rep-josh-ril...

House Republicans jammed through a spending bill that decimates rural hospitals and healthcare. They refuse to work with Democrats to undo these cuts and are now dragging us towards a shutdown. I'll work with anyone to keep our hospitals open and do right by Upstate New Yorkers.

We can’t fix what we refuse to face. Hunger is rising in Upstate New York, and families can’t wait. That’s why I joined colleagues in demanding USDA reinstate this critical survey — we need the data to deliver real solutions.

When workers form a union, it shouldn't take years to get a first contract. I'm supporting the Faster Labor Contracts Act to give workers the power to win fair wages and crack down on the big corporations who use delay tactics to wear them down. www.fingerlakes1.com/2025/09/23/r...

Utility bills in Upstate New York haven’t been this high in a decade. More than a million homes are now at least two months behind on payments. That’s why I introduced the Keep the Lights Local Act—to cut costs and put power back where it belongs: with the people who pay the rates.

The FCC strong-arming a private company to pull a comedian off the air is clearly unconstitutional, and the courts need to say so.

Foreign corporations who own our utility companies are raking in record profits while Upstate New Yorkers are getting crushed by utility bills. Today I introduced the Keep The Lights Local Act to ban foreign corporations from owning our utility companies. We're taking our power back–literally.

The system is rigged. Utility monopolies like NYSEG & their foreign owners cash in. Regulators roll over. Families pay the price. That’s why we’re fighting back. Thank you to the American Economic Liberties Project for joining us in the fight.

Central Hudson rips $80M a year out of our community and ships it to a Canadian energy giant. And the Albany regulators who should’ve had our backs sold us out. I filed this appeal because our fight isn’t over — it’s just getting started. www.dailyfreeman.com/2025/09/11/r...

9/11 survivors, their families, and first-responders deserve more than words. They deserve action. I'm supporting the bill to provide long-term funding for the World Trade Center Health Program so those who still carry the weight of that day get the medical care they need.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk is sickening and heartbreaking. We must take the temperature down and reject political violence always and everywhere. Praying for his family and everyone impacted. apnews.com/live/utah-va...

GOP budget cuts would decimate rural hospitals and leave communities like ours without care, all so billionaires can get another handout. It's going to cost lives. I’m fighting back with $500 million in emergency aid, because no family should have to drive hours for a doctor. Not now. Not ever.

Our country misses out on billions each year when the wealthy use tax loopholes to avoid paying their fair share. Now, Trump is gutting the IRS' ability to fight back. This administration will stop at nothing to protect their billionaire puppet-masters. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

Release the damn files. All of them. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

Release the files. Today, I signed the discharge petition to make all of the Epstein Files public because you deserve the transparency you were promised.

It's the honor of my life to represent Upstate in Congress, and I will always fight to protect our jobs and deliver a square deal to working families. www.binghamtonhomepage.com/news/top-sto...

It's easy to understand why our electric bills are rising more than twice as fast as inflation. NYSEG ➡️ Iberdrola Central Hudson ➡️ Fortis Rate hikes are merely a tool to pad the pockets of corporate executives overseas. I'm fighting back against the utility monopolies.

Job Corps is a promise to every young person in Upstate New York that if you work hard, you can learn a valuable skill and build a meaningful career. I will always fight to protect this program from the senseless cuts Washington extremists have proposed.

The GOP’s Big Ugly Bill guts Medicaid, puts hundreds of rural hospitals at risk, and drives doctors & nurses out of Upstate NY. I voted no, called it out on the House floor, and I’m not done—I’ll keep fighting to protect our care. www.news10.com/news/healthc...

Upstate New Yorkers know what it's like to be sold out by corruption in our politics. I'm introducing a bill to ban members of Congress from owning or trading individual stocks. If you're in Congress, you should be focused on serving the people, not yourself.

In Upstate New York, we made the punchcards that turned the dream of Social Security into reality. I'll be damned if we're going to let extremists in Washington tear that dream away now. I'm proud to stand with @schumer.senate.gov and Broome County seniors to fight for every penny they're owed.

You worked hard your whole life. Social Security is money you earned. I introduced a bill to keep phone lines open and local offices staffed so you can get your benefits, and I’ll fight like hell to stop Washington and Wall Street from gambling them away. www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

I filed a motion with NY's Public Service Commission demanding public hearings in Binghamton, Ithaca, Oneonta, and Monticello regarding NYSEG's rate hikes. If NYSEG and its multinational owners want to hike rates in Upstate, they need to look us in the eye and answer for it.

A politician in Texas should have zero say over a woman's healthcare decisions in Ulster County. I'm standing with my neighbors in the Hudson Valley against this baseless attack on our freedoms. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

When corporations take advantage of a crisis by hiking prices, that's not the free market—it’s a shake-down. Wall Street hates my bill to ban price gouging during emergencies, but I didn't come to Congress to protect their bottom line. I’m here to fight for Upstate New Yorkers.

NYSEG wants to raise our energy bills while their parent company in Spain makes billions in profits. I'm joining the fight against their latest rate hike, because I don't work for the utility monopolies. I work for you. Read more below 👇

Using a crisis to hike prices on food and medicine is the definition of a shake-down. My legislation, the ‘Cracking Down on Price Gouging Act,’ strengthens existing law to create a national ban and finally holds bad actors accountable.

Every farmer, rural business, and Upstate family deserves safe infrastructure. That's why I'm leading a bill to invest $275M in improving rural roads and bridges. Politicians have talked about this issue for too long, and now is the time for action. I'm proud to lead the way.

In Upstate New York, NPR and PBS teach our kids and tell the stories others miss. Defunding public media shuts out the voices that connect communities like ours. I’ll keep standing up for local journalism, public programming, and everyone made better by it.

Over 10,000 New Yorkers have already subscribed to the Riley Report, my newsletter with all the latest on my work in Washington and at home. Come for the updates, stay for the #NY19 fun facts! Subscribe here: riley.house.gov

Women’s healthcare decisions are women’s healthcare decisions, full stop. Ulster County is proudly leading the fight to protect reproductive freedom. www.newyorkupstate.com/hudson-valle...

Gramps Gioffre represents the best of Upstate New York—he served his country, punched a clock, raised a family, and never asked for credit, but he deserves a lot of it. A WWII vet and lifelong Triple Cities resident, it was an honor to celebrate his 100th yesterday in Endicott.