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.

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.

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Deluzio served as a naval officer from 2006 to 2012, where he served as a surface warfare officer and deployed to Iraq with an Army civil affairs unit.

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.

Deluzio ran for the United States House of Representatives in PA's 17th congressional district to succeed Conor Lamb in the 2022 elections.

He won the general election with 53.4% of the vote, defeating Republican nominee Jeremy Shaffer.

Deluzio supports the PRO Act, a federal bill expanding workers' rights to collectively bargain.

He later graduated magna cum laude and received his juris doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2013.

In 2015, he married Alexandra Zoë Bunnell, whom he met while attending law school at Georgetown.

As a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention, Deluzio spoke in favor of Medicare for All and later cosponsored 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.

Deluzio is from Thornburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Vincent and Rita Deluzio.

His father owns a healthcare management consulting firm.