Ivan Torrez Moves From House to Senate

From House to Senate

Ivan Torrez has joined Sen. Peter Welch's (D-VT) Senate office as a legislative assistant as of September 1. ​

Torrez previously worked as a legislative assistant for Rep. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX-34) before joining Welch's office. Before that, he was an economic policy research aide in Sen. Chris Coons's (D-DE) office from April 2023 to April 2025, and a staff assistant with the Joint Economic Committee from December 2021 to September 2022 before becoming a Democratic research assistant there until April 2023. Torrez began his career on the hill as an intern with Senator Mike Crapo (R-ID) in June 2019, and later interned for Senator Coons from October to December of 2021. Torrez graduation from the University of Southern California with a BA in international relations and affairs in 2020.

Welch sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee.