Dear Friend, I invite you to read my op-ed published in the Jewish Daily Forward with my reflections on the recent House sit-in on gun violence. It's a sad reflection on the power of the gun lobby that a sit-in is the only way to force a debate on legislation to keep guns out of the hands of suspected terrorists and dangerous criminals. I proudly stand with all Americans who deserve to live free from gun violence, and I will continue to work as hard as I can to create safer communities for all ... Read more

You're invited to join me this Monday, April 25th, at Broward College for a special screening of "Making a Killing: Guns, Greed, and the NRA." This film exposes how the multi-billion dollar gun industry profits from loopholes that allow guns to fall into the wrong hands and perpetuate the gun violence epidemic in communities around our nation every day. I hope you will join us. A panel discussion with the filmmakers and survivors of gun violence will follow the screening. Date: Monday, April 25,... Read more

"It’s not too often that elected officials suggest such a real bargain, yet U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has offered Florida voters exactly that," writes the Palm Beach Post Editorial Board. The following editorial was published by the Palm Beach Post on Friday, February 26, 2016. Palm Beach Post Editorial: Florida should join national voter registration database It’s not too often that elected officials suggest such a real bargain, yet U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has offered Flor... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) joined Congressman Scott Garrett (NJ-5) and Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney (NY-12) to introduce the Restoring Main Street Investor Protection and Confidence Act (H.R. 1982). This legislation will protect ordinary investors from the fraudulent and abusive schemes of securities brokers and investor advisers in addition to providing protections from further “clawbacks” to the innocent investors who were devastated by Ponzi schemes. After the hardships of the fin... Read more

By Rep. Ted Deutch I’m taking a break in February. Not from my official duties, but from raising money for my campaign in Washington when Congress is in session and I should be most focused on serving my constituents. You may have heard of Movember. Allow me to introduce Fundraising Free February. Americans are in near universal agreement that Congress is broken. Sweeping bipartisan policy initiatives have been replaced with negativity and partisanship. Politicians on both sides decry this toxi... Read more

U.S. Representatives Gus Bilirakis and Ted Deutch, Co-Chairs of the Congressional Hellenic Israel Alliance condemned Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments made in recent days concerning Israel’s military response to continued rocket attacks from the Hamas terrorist organization: “The outrageous rhetoric being attributed to Prime Minister Erdogan in his recent public speeches and interviews is par for the course. Accusing the State of Israel of engaging in systematic genocide and... Read more

The following article was published by the Palm Beach Post on a new bill introduced by Reps. Ted Deutch and Lois Frankel that brings transparency to the foreign worker visa system: Foreign worker jobs would be revealed under new bill By John Lantigua - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Two South Florida members of Congress are co-sponsoring a bill that would make federal agencies publish the number of foreign laborers awarded visas to work in the U.S., their nationalities, the jobs they take, the emp... Read more

U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), Chairman of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, and Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Ranking Member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued the following statement following their meeting with Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Joint statement by Reps. Ros-Lehtinen and Deutch: Above: Reps. Ros-Lehtinen and Deutch with Prime Minister Netanyahu. “These last few days have been a trying and difficult time for the people of Israel afte... Read more

In an opinion-editorial for the Miami Herald co-authored with Rep. Karen Bass (CA-37), Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21) discusses his new bill to provide unaccompanied minors with legal counsel for immigration and deportation proceedings. Migrant children must be treated fairly By Rep. Ted Deutch and Rep. Karen Bass This year an estimated 60,000 children will cross the U.S.-Mexico border without parents or guardians, a tenfold jump from previous years. These young children are not, as some of our Republi... Read more

Saving enough to retire has become impossible for most Americans. U.S. Census data indicates that even as health care, education and housing costs have soared, average working families earn less today than they did in 1989. The National Retirement Security Institute's recent analysis of Federal Reserve data revealed that Americans are at least $6.6 trillion short of what they need to retire securely. A staggering 80 percent of working households have less than a year's earnings put away, and 40 ... Read more