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.
We are a nation of immigrants. We built this country by embracing and celebrating different heritages and backgrounds and not letting those difference get in the way of the work that lays before us. I support comprehensive immigration reform in Congress that ends illegal entry into the country, and effectively addresses the reality that 12 million undocumented individuals already live within our borders. I have cosponsored legislation in the House that reforms our broken immigration system, grows our GDP by almost $1 trillion in the next decade, and creates 121,000 new jobs each year for the next ten years