Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) released this statement on new data showing that today the number of Americans without unemployment insurance will grow to more 87,600 in Florida and 1.6 million nationwide. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee based these estimates on the number of Americans looking for work who have lost their unemployment insurance each week. Across the country, an average of nearly 72,000 job seekers have stopped receiving this vital assistance each week since Decemb... Read more

Friends, Too often our day to day lives leave little time for enjoying a good book. That’s why I wanted to bring your attention to “Read Together: Palm Beach County,” an exciting initiative bringing thousands of adults in our community together by reading the same book at the same time. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.inse... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee and the author of the Democracy for All Amendment (H.J. Res 119, 113th Congress), issued this statement after participating in a reading of the U.S. Constitution to mark the start of the 114th Congress: “The Constitution is an extraordinary document that has guided our democracy through centuries of change and challenge. Today’s reading should remind us all that the power to amend the Constitution bestowed to us by ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, released this statement in reaction to President Obama's announcement of an interim deal with Iran: "This partial deal is only the beginning, but we must be clear that the end result of this process is Iran verifiably and completely ending its nuclear weapons program and dangerous enrichment activities. Before any final deal can be rea... Read more

​Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, released this statement in reaction to President Obama's announcement of an interim deal with Iran: "This partial deal is only the beginning, but we must be clear that the end result of this process is Iran verifiably and completely ending its nuclear weapons program and dangerous enrichment activities. Before any final deal can be re... Read more

(Boca Raton, FL) Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a member of the House Mental Health Caucus, released this statement in reaction to news that the Obama Administration is issuing final rules for the Wellstone-Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act (MHPAEA): “The costs of untreated mental illness and substance abuse on our society are profound, from unnecessary incarceration and unemployment to the tragic loss of life due to suicide and as we have seen in recent times, horrific gun... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) released this statement today on the expiration of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s $5 billion boost to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP): “Today, the 3.52 million Floridians and 48 million Americans nationwide who rely on SNAP to avoid going hungry will see their benefits go down as $5 billion in cuts take effect. These cuts result from the expiration of anti-hunger funding included in the Recovery Act, but we cannot forget that for ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch released this statement following the passage of a deal temporarily ending a Republican-forced shutdown of the federal government and preserving the United States Treasury’s ability to pay its bills: “Tonight, Congress may have prevented the United States from defaulting on its credit for the first time in history and brought an end to a reckless government shutdown, but to call this last-minute deal a victory for the American people would be shameful. Narrowly preventing ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch released this statement in reaction to the announcement that Social Security beneficiaries would receive just a 1.5 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) in 2014: "For the nearly two-thirds of American retirees who rely on Social Security for a majority of their income, a cost-of-living increase of just $17 a month is worrisome and frustrating. Such a meager COLA is also bad news for our economy at large, as a more robust increase to the 54 million Americans who rely on... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa, issued this statement following President Obama's remarks this evening on Syria: "No dictator should be able to gas his own people without facing consequences from the international community, and I applaud President Obama’s commitment to this basic principle of human rights. "Unfortunately, for the past two years Russia has blocked every international effor... Read more