WASHINGTON, D.C. — Rep. Tom Suozzi is looking to swap Washington, D.C. for Albany in his bid for governor. The Democrat, who represents Long Island and Queens, has served on Capitol Hill for the better part of five years.

One issue — above all others — has defined his past year in Congress: SALT.

Suozzi has helped lead the charge to lift the 4-year-old cap on the federal deduction for state and local taxes, even threatening to vote against President Joe Biden’s Build Back Better plan over it.

“No SALT, no deal” became an oft-repeated phrase of his.

Suozzi and his colleagues succeeded in getting a boost to the SALT cap included in the House-backed version of the bill. However, its fate in the Senate remains uncertain.

Suozzi first entered Congress in 2017, succeeding longtime Rep. Steve Israel.

He currently serves on the House Ways and Means Committee. Many of the bills he has authored during his tenure have dealt with tax policy, touching on how everything from nicotine to plastics are taxed.

On the Hill, he has authored or championed a handful of bills that have become law, including one awarding the Congressional Gold Medal to the Harlem Hellfighters, an African American World War I Army regiment.

His office notes that he also successfully pushed for a dramatic increase in federal funding for the cleanup of the Long Island Sound.

Suozzi serves as a vice-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus on Capitol Hill, which aims to foster cooperation between Republicans and Democrats on key policy matters. In that role, he claims some credit for the bipartisan infrastructure bill signed by the president earlier this year.

“I helped negotiate the infrastructure deal as a member of the Problem Solvers Caucus, which is going to bring billions of dollars to New York state, and union jobs, and really tremendously help our state and our country as well,” Suozzi said at the press conference during which he announcing his gubernatorial bid.

While often pigeonholed as a moderate within the Democratic party on Capitol Hill, he has teamed with progressives throughout his tenure, notably supporting Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal.

He also has co-sponsored many gun reforms that have gone nowhere, including a proposed assault weapons ban.