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4. You will normally see the "Ranking Members"

often with cosigning by other members on specific Committees, "sending the letters".

You won't see every single Democrat "sending a letter". The seniority of the Ranking Members (or Committee Chairs when we are in the majority and have those positions) is what provides authority as "speaking for" those other Committee Members. You may have some junior members picking up a subject that interests them to take a lead on too.

These are the Committees/Subcommittees that Torres is a member of - https://clerk.house.gov/members/T000486

Committee and Subcommittee Assignments

Committee on Financial Services

Digital Assets, Financial Technology, and Artificial Intelligence
Housing and Insurance
National Security, Illicit Finance, and International Financial Institutions

Select Committee on the Strategic Competition Between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

I know DU tends to whine about "always seeing" Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren doing this but that is because THEY are the Ranking Members of their Senate Committees (as an example). Similarly Maxine Waters is a Ranking Member of that House Financial Services Committee.