Today, Rep. Ted Deutch sent Florida Governor Scott a letter demanding an immediate bipartisan task force to investigate the growing voter fraud scandal surrounding a firm hired by the Florida Republican Party, Strategic Allied Consulting. “Governor Scott, we are on the cusp of a Presidential election,” writes Rep. Deutch. Disturbing reports suggest that professionally coordinated voter fraud occurred in Florida that is potentially massive in scale. Your silence and inaction are shocking and I r... Read more

Last night, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) successfully passed the first piece of legislation aiming to address the plight of American homeowners suffering from contaminated drywall in their homes since reports of the destructive material began to surface in 2009. The Drywall Wall Safety Act, co-introduced with Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA), would pressure the Chinese government to submit manufacturers of this tainted drywall to the jurisdiction of the U.S. court system and establish new safeguards to preven... Read more

Today, the House passed the Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program Act of 2012, legislation co-introduced by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) to bolster the ability of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to find missing children and elderly persons in the critical first hours they go missing. H.R. 4305 makes nonprofits, including the Fort Lauderdale-based A Child is Missing, eligible for federal grants and cooperative agreements with law enforcement agencies na... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, have sent a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling on him to use his visit to Tehran for the Non-Aligned Movement Conference to deliver a strong message to the Iranian regime that the international community does not accept its illicit nuclear weapons program. The letter also calls... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, issued this statement on the new package of Iran sanctions the House will vote on today: “This new legislation takes significant steps to expand sanctions on the Iranian energy sector. Similar to the legislation I introduced earlier this year to declare the entire energy sector a 'zone of proliferation concern,' this bill takes considerable steps toward blacklisting the Iranian energy sector by expanding sanctionable... Read more

Today, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) introduced new legislation to empower Americans to reduce their exposure to cancer-causing agents found in every day consumer products. The Cancer-Free Label Act will create a voluntary application process for manufacturers to verify their products are free of known carcinogens and market their goods with a certified “cancer-free” label. “We all know that using sunscreen, quitting smoking, and steering clear of asbestos can reduce our risk to cancer, but when it com... Read more

In the wake of the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal that has captured the attention of Americans nationwide, today Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) sent a letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith requesting a congressional hearing into the policy issues raised by this despicable tragedy. With the university’s own internal report by Louis Freeh indicating a total failure of the systems supposedly in place to protect children from sexual predators like Mr. Sandusky, Congr... Read more

Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) introduced new legislation to help secure a Purple Heart denied to Murray Soskil, a Boca Raton resident, veteran of World War II, and the recipient of two Silver Stars, a Bronze Star, the French Metal of Valor, the French Foligere, and the Presidential Unit Citation. A member of the 3rd Infantry Division, Mr. Soskil was liberating prisoners at the Buchloe Concentration Camp when an SS trooper attacked and stabbed him in the stomach. Though Mr. Soskil bares a graphic scar a... Read more

Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) released this statement after attending the display of the AIDS Memorial Quilt on the National Mall in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of its creation: View a larger version of this photo. “The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a powerful reminder that behind the devastating statistics of AIDS-related deaths are the memories of real Americans -- loved by their families, partners, friends, and neighbors -- lost to this epidemic. Created 25 years ago, this living memorial implore... Read more

Rep. Deutch issued this statement on the Supreme Court decision upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act: “In the coming days, political strategists and pundits will debate how today’s Supreme Court ruling will impact the November elections, when what really matters is the improved financial security that all Americans will enjoy thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Just the beginning phases of this historic law’s implementation have yielded tremendous benefits to Floridians and Am... Read more