Congressman Paul Tonko represents New York’s 20th Congressional District, including the communities of Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Saratoga Springs and Amsterdam. He represents all of Albany and Schenectady Counties and parts of Montgomery, Rensselaer and Saratoga Counties.
He is serving his seventh term, after first being sworn into Congress in 2009.
Paul serves on the Energy and Commerce Committee, the oldest standing committee in the House, created in December of 1795. He is the first Upstate New York Democratic member to serve on the committee since Leo O'Brien, who resigned the post in October 1966. He was elected by his peers in the 116th Congress to chair the Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. He was also selected to continue his service on the Science, Space and Technology Committee, as well as on the Natural Resources Committee.
Since March 2010 when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or the ACA, was passed, we have made great gains in improving our national health care system. Despite constant political attacks from those who embraced the same ideas decades ago, the ACA has insured the highest number of Americans in our nation’s history while bringing the rate at which our national spending on health care grows to the slowest in 50 years. The benefits of the ACA are numerous. Click here to read an abbreviated list.
In Congress, I will continue to support policies that strengthen the ACA and improve health care for every American. After the Supreme Court upheld the law twice since it’s creation, it is my hope that partisan attacks will cease, and both parties will work together to make the system more affordable and more accessible for patients.
