Chris Deluzio
Christopher Raphael Deluzio (born July 13, 1984) is an American attorney, politician and former U.S. Navy officer serving as the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district since 2023. The district includes most of the northwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Early life and education
Deluzio was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Thornburg, Pennsylvania. He attended Bishop Canevin High School and then the United States Naval Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 2006. He later graduated magna cum laude and received his juris doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2013. Early career 
After graduating from the Naval Academy, Deluzio deployed to Iraq as a naval officer from 2006 to 2012. He later worked as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City before joining the Brennan Center of Justice to work on voting rights and election security issues. Deluzio was then named a legal and policy scholar of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security. U.S. House of Representatives

Elections

2022 

Deluzio ran for the United States House of Representatives in  to succeed Conor Lamb in the 2022 elections. He won the general election with 53.4% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Jeremy Shaffer. Tenure

Caucus memberships
Congressional Progressive Caucus (deputy whip)
 For Country Caucus
 Congressional Steel Caucus
 Labor Caucus
 Bipartisan Fentanyl Prevention Caucus

Committee assignments 

 Committee on Veterans Affairs
 Committee on Armed Services

Political positions
Deluzio supports the PRO Act, a federal bill expanding workers' rights to collectively bargain. As a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Deluzio spoke in favor of Medicare for All and later cosponsered it in congress. Deluzio criticized the Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. Deluzio introduced the first bill to tighten rail safety requirements for the transportation of hazardous materials after the Norfolk Southern derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, with Congressman Ro Khanna, and introduced the House version of the bipartisan Railway Safety Act with Congressman Nick LaLota to toughen rules for freight rail. In 2023, DeLuzio voted against a ban on cluster munitions to Ukraine. DeLuzio voted against prohibiting the use of funds to delist the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps as a foreign terrorist Organization. DeLuzio voted to provide Israel with support following 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Personal life
Deluzio is from Thornburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Vincent and Rita Deluzio. His father owns a healthcare management consulting firm. In 2015, he married Alexandra Zoë Bunnell, whom he met while attending law school at Georgetown. References

External links
 Congressman Chris Deluzio  official U.S. House website
 Chris Deluzio for Congress

 

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1984 births
21st-century American politicians
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
Georgetown University Law Center alumni
Living people
Pennsylvania Democrats
Politicians from Pittsburgh
United States Naval Academy alumni
University of Pittsburgh people