Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) co-introduced the Social Security 2100 Act, legislation to ensure Social Security solvency through the end of the century. Specifically, the bill would improve benefits through an across-the-board benefit increase, implement a more accurate cost of living formula, create a new special minimum benefit, and cut taxes for over 10 million beneficiaries. The bill funds these changes by eliminating the cap on Social Security tax for those earning greater than $400... Read more

Today, Congressman Deutch (FL-22) and other co-chairs of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism introduced the Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Act of 2017. This legislation would make the position of Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism a permanent position within the State Department with the rank of ambassador. You can read the text of H.R. 1911 here. Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) joined Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (CT-3) and 195 other Members of the House in introducing the Paycheck Fairness Act. This legislation will revise language related to the enforcement of sex discrimination in the workplace to include wage discrimination. Specifically, the Paycheck Fairness Act will require employers to prove that differences in pay are related only to performance and not gender. Furthermore, the bill will prohibit the punishment of employees ... Read more

Today, Congressmen Ted Deutch (D-FL), Brad Schneider (D-IL), and Tim Murphy (R-PA) introduced bipartisan legislation to aid homeless veterans through voluntary contributions raised from a new “check-off box” on the annual federal tax return. The Homeless Veterans Assistance Fund Act of 2017 (H.R. 1875) would make these funds available to the VA, in consultation with the Departments of Labor and Housing and Urban Development, solely to provide services to homeless veterans, including developing a... Read more

Today, Congressmen Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Jerrold Nadler (NY-1) reintroduced the Fair Play Fair Pay Act. This legislation would modernize the outdated laws governing music licensing for radio broadcasts. The Fair Play Fair Pay Act would ensure radio companies adequately compensate artists for playing their music. Regardless of the technology used by radio broadcasters, artists should be fairly compensated. This bill would create platform parity, thereby leveling the music playing field and endin... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) joined as an original cosponsor of the Prevent All Soring Tactics (PAST) Act. Soring is the practice of deliberately inflicting pain on the hooves and legs of Tennessee Walking Horses to force them to perform an unnaturally high-stepping gait at horse shows. The PAST Act will amend the Horse Protection Act to ban the use of devices associated with soring, strenthen penalties for violations, and make illegal the actual soring of a horse. Congressman Deutch is... Read more

Today, Congressman Deutch (FL-22) introduced the Combating Anti-Semitism Act of 2017. This bipartisan bill would increase protection of community centers with religious affiliation from threats including bomb threats. Deutch is a co-chair and founding member of the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism. Following bomb threats made against Jewish Community Centers nationwide and in South Florida, Deutch said: “If 100 branches of any institution in this country – any religious site, an... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch cosponsored the Shark Fin Sales Elimination Act. This bipartisan legislation would ban the buying and selling of shark fins in the United States. In 2016, shark-related tourism and conservation in Florida waters generated more than $221 million in revenue. Eleven states and three U.S. territories have already prohibited the sale of shark fins. A comprehensive nationwide ban will ensure that the United States does not serve as a driving force of the cruel practice of... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) joined Congresswoman Slaughter (NY-25) to co-introduce the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (H.R. 1587). This legislation would require the makers of antibiotics used in food-producing animals to prove that the drug does not pose a risk to human health. In 2011, the Food and Drug Administration found that 80 percent of all antibiotics in the United States were sold for use on food animals, rather than being used for human health. The use of ant... Read more

Congressman Deutch (FL-22), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, has reintroduced the Status of the Sixth Amendment Act. This bill would require states to report on the number of defendants appearing in felony cases, misdemeanor cases, and juvenile delinquency proceedings without representation by counsel. States would have three years to begin providing this information to the Department of Justice, which would then be posted and available to the public on the DOJ website. The bill... Read more