Christopher Raphael Deluzio (born July 13, 1984)^[3] 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. A member of the Democratic Party, his district includes most of the northwestern suburbs of Pittsburgh.

Deluzio was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and raised in Thornburg.^[4][5] He attended Bishop Canevin High School, where he played baseball.^[6] After graduation, he was admitted to the United States Naval Academy and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 2006.^[2][7] Following his naval service, he attended Georgetown University Law Center, where he graduated magna cum laude with a Juris Doctor in 2013.^[4][2]

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Deluzio served as a naval officer from 2006 to 2012, where he was a surface warfare officer and deployed to Iraq with an Army civil affairs unit.^[2] He later worked as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City^[2] before joining the Brennan Center of Justice to work on voting rights and election security issues.^[8] Deluzio was then named a legal and policy scholar of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.^[9]

Deluzio ran for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania’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.^[10]

Deluzio defeated Republican nominee Rob Mercuri in the 2024 election 54% to 46%.^[11][12]

Deluzio was sworn into Congress on January 7, 2023, and appointed to the Armed Services and Veterans’ Affairs committees for the 118th congressional session.^[13] In February, following the Norfolk Southern train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, near his district, he partnered with Rep. Ro Khanna to introduce a bill tightening rail safety requirements for transporting hazardous materials.^[14] The following month, he introduced the House version of the bipartisan Railway Safety Act with Rep. Nick LaLota to strengthen regulations for freight rail.^[15] In May, he introduced the Build, Utilize, Invest, Learn and Deliver (BUILD) for Veterans Act to improve VA infrastructure and address unused buildings with long-term budget requirements.^[16]

In 2024, Deluzio co-sponsored the Shrinkflation Prevention Act with Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Pérez to prevent corporations from reducing product sizes without lowering prices.^[17] In May, he worked to ensure union labor agreements were implemented for the restoration of the Montgomery Lock and Dam, a project funded by Biden’s infrastructure bill, which was expected to create 28,000 construction jobs.^[18] The next month, he was appointed to the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure following the death of Rep. Donald Payne, because of his leadership on rail safety.^[19] In July, he joined House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries at the Pittsburgh International Airport to highlight the impact of the bipartisan infrastructure law on its $1.5 billion modernization project.^[20]

Deluzio’s committee assignments for the 119th Congress include:^[21]

• Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
  • Subcommittee on Aviation
  • Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Materials (vice ranking member)^[22]
• Committee on Armed Services
  • Subcommittee on Readiness
  • Subcommittee on Seapower and Projection Forces

Deluzio’s caucus memberships include:^[22]

• Labor Caucus (vice chair)
• Congressional Steel Caucus
• Congressional Progressive Caucus (deputy whip)^[23][24]
• Navy and Marine Corps Caucus, (co-chair)
• Bipartisan Fentanyl Prevention Caucus^[25]

Deluzio supports the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act, a federal bill expanding workers’ rights to unionize and collectively bargain.^[26] In 2024, he co-sponsored the bipartisan Public Service Worker Protection Act to extend OSHA protections to public sector employees in all states, addressing a gap that leaves approximately eight million workers without federal workplace safety standards.^[27] He also co-sponsored that year the Stop Spying Bosses Act, which aims to protect workers’ rights by regulating workplace surveillance.^[28]

Deluzio supports universal healthcare and co-sponsored the Medicare for All Act.^[29][30] He also criticized the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and supports women’s reproductive rights to make their own decisions about their families and healthcare.^[31]

In 2023, Deluzio voted against banning the transfer of cluster munitions to Ukraine.^[32][33] That July, he co-introduced a bipartisan resolution that urged the Biden administration to secure the release of Marc Fogel, a Pennsylvania teacher from his district who was unjustly sentenced to fourteen years in a Russian prison.^[34] In October, he voted in favor of providing support to Israel following the Hamas-led attack on October 7.^[35][36]

In 2024, Deluzio joined a bipartisan group urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to designate Fogel as “wrongfully detained” to emphasize the political nature of his imprisonment.^[37] In early 2025, he once again joined Pennsylvania lawmakers in calling for Fogel’s release,^[38] which was secured the following month.^[39]

Deluzio is from Thornburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Vincent and Rita Deluzio. His father owns a healthcare management consulting firm.^[2] In 2015, he married Alexandra Zoë Bunnell, whom he met while attending law school at Georgetown.^[40] They currently live in Fox Chapel.^[11]

• Congressman Chris Deluzio official U.S. House website
• Chris Deluzio for Congress campaign website

• Biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Election Commission
• Legislation sponsored at the Library of Congress
• Profile at Vote Smart
• Appearances on C-SPAN