Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), founding co-chair of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, issued the following statement after President Trump omitted climate change as a national security threat in his National Security Strategy report: “Whether this President wants to accept the evidence or not, climate change is an urgent national security threat that’s already having damaging effects across our country. Denying the facts and removing climate change from our national security strategy wil... Read more

On Wednesday, December 13, during a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), a senior member of the committee, refuted Republican attacks to discredit and undermine special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. Click the image to watch the Congressman's questions. A transcript of his remarks is below. Click here to watch Congressman Deutch's full statement on the Russia investigation. Congressman Ted Deutch: I’d like... Read more

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), a senior member of the committee, drilled the Attorney General with questions about the President's ability to obstruct justice, fire the special prosecutor, and pardon campaign and administration officials. "When you started your testimony today, you said that there’s nothing more important than advancing the rule of law. And when you answer the way you have, it suggests that the rule... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Chair of the LGBT Aging Task Force of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, joined Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici(OR-01) and Congressman Charlie Crist (FL-13) to introduce legislation that aims to improve the Older Americans Act (OAA) by better serving LGBT elders and increasing access to culturally competent services and support programs. This bill is named to honor LGBT activists Ruthie Berman and Connie Kurtz. To learn more about Ruthie and Connie's story, cl... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Congressman Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) were joined by 46 of their House colleagues in writing to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to urge them to continue collecting information about high risk behaviors associated with eating disorders. In 2015, CDC removed all eating disorders surveillance questions from their national surveys. In their letter, the Members ask CDC to add eating disorders questions to CDC’s national surveys to help researc... Read more

Moments ago, the U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed a resolution (H.Res. 359) introduced by Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Ranking Member of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, urging the European Union (EU) to fully designate Hezbollah as a terrorist organizations. Currently, the EU only includes Hezbollah's military wing - and not its political wing - on its list of sanctioned terrorist organizations. The United States makes no distinction... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) published an op-ed in the Miami Herald in which he urges his Congressional colleagues to take up the Keep America Safe Act, a bill that would renew the ban on high capacity magazines that expired in 2004. "We admit that this legislation won’t fix everything and won’t end gun violence. It won’t address the majority of the 33,000 lives lost to gun violence every year in this country, half of which are suicides. "But without 30-round magazines, mass killers would be f... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Congressman Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), founding co-chairs of the bipartisan Climate Solutions Caucus, led a bipartisan Caucus letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, affirming their "support for the Clean Power Plan regulations on the building of new power plants" and urging the Administration to maintain the regulations and "work to achieve solutions that will provide good jobs, economic growth, and a safe climate for us and future Ame... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Ranking Member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued this statement in response to reports that the Palestinian Fatah party signed a reconciliation agreement with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas: “Restoring the Palestinian Authority’s control in Gaza would be a critical step toward improving the lives of the nearly two million Palestinians living under brutal Hamas leadership and the Israeli civilians living in perpetual fear of rocket fir... Read more

This afternoon, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) participated in a press conference introducing the Keep Americans Safe Act, a bill that would prohibit the transfer, importation, or possession of magazines able to hold more than 10 rounds of ammunition. “I’m proud to join my colleagues in this important measure to address gun violence,” Congressman Deutch said. “Thirteen years since the large capacity ammunition ban lapsed, Congress has repeatedly failed to act to protect the American people. Gun ... Read more