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U.S. Representative

Rep. Josh Riley

Democrat - New York

Josh Riley is a fifth-generation upstate New Yorker. Inspired by the challenges his community faced as jobs were shipped overseas, Riley dedicated his career to fighting for working families. He served as counsel on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, where he helped craft common-sense gun safety legislation following the Sandy Hook tragedy. In private practice, he championed a federal court push to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment and defend abortion rights. Riley has also filed bipartisan briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court aimed at strengthening America’s immigration system.

BIOGRAPHY  

PARTY: Democrat

ELECTED: 2024

EDUCATION: College of William and Mary; Harvard Law School (JD)

OCCUPATION: Attorney for Boies, Schiller & Flexner and Jenner & Block LLP

BORN: 01/21/1981

*Candidates running for office for the first time will have no voting record.

“I’m pro-choice and I’ll fight like hell to put Roe v. Wade back into law.”

- Rep. Josh Riley

POLITICAL CAREER


  • Staff assistant to former Congressperson Maurice Hinchey

  • Policy analyst at the U.S. Department of Labor

  • Clerk on the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals

  • General counsel to former Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) on the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee


COMMITTEES SERVED ON


  • House Committee on Agriculture

  • House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology

INTERESTING FACTS

  • Does not accept corporate PAC money for his campaigns

  • Is a fifth-generation Upstate New Yorker

427d 15h 56m 42s until Election Day '26

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