Putting $5 billion in federal money into a "national infrastructure bank" would create jobs and reduce the deficit, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, told officials from the world's largest cement company Tuesday afternoon. Read more

There is nothing courageous about asking seniors and middle-class families who have already borne the brunt of this recession to shoulder painful cuts just to finance the policies driving our deficit - such as oil company subsidies, trillion-dollar tax cuts for millionaires and special-interest giveaways. The House Republican budget, presented by Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., would protect these extravagancies at the expense of financial aid for 1.4 million students, nearly 500,0... Read more

In a Huffington Post opinion piece, Congressman Deutch argues against Governor Rick Scott's plan to privatize Medicaid and hand taxpayer dollars over to for-profit HMO's at the expense of quality care for low-income Floridians and important investments like cancer research. Governor Scott One Step Closer to Handing Medicaid Over to For-Profit HMOs By Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) Republicans in Tallahassee are on a fast track towards decimating health care in Florida. Today, the Florida House Bu... Read more

This opinion piece by Congressman Ted Deutch was published by the Miami Herald on December 14, 2010. President Obama should be commended for fighting to include additional tax cuts for working Americans during negotiations with congressional Republicans over the approaching expiration of the Bush tax cuts. Giving struggling American families extra spending money will provide our economy with a desperately needed boost. Yet, one method by which the compromise tax bill provides American workers w... Read more

Keep Up With Retirees' Costs Representing South Florida in Congress, I regularly hold town meetings with retirees. Inevitably, the first question from the crowd is one I often ask myself, “Why are folks in Washington lying about Social Security?” There is a bizarre consensus that dismantling this cherished program by raising the retirement age or cutting benefits would somehow fix the federal budget. But that would only inflict harm on the millions of Americans who rely on Social Security to su... Read more