Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) issued this statement after House Republicans' suspended statutory pay-go rules to pass H.R. 4438, a research and development tax bill that adds $156 billion to the federal deficit: “My Republican colleagues apparently live in a fantasy world where spending billions of dollars through the tax code has no impact on the deficit. Those who voted to pass the first of several tax bills that together will grow our deficit by $310 billion are the same Republicans who have... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) issued this statement after the House of Representatives passed H. Con Res 96, the FY2015 budget proposed by former vice presidential candidate and Chairman of the House Budget Committee, Congressman Paul Ryan: "The American people have consistently rejected Republican Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s plan to give the wealthiest Americans another tax cut and pay for it by dismantling the Medicare guarantee, hiking taxes on middle class families, and slashing critical in... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) announced that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has awarded over $4 million to Public Housing Authorities throughout Palm Beach and Broward counties. The funding comes from HUD's Capital Fund Program, which supports localities as they develop, finance, and modernize public housing. Statewide, the Capital Fund Program is investing over $48 million in Florida. "The more than $4 million in Capital Fund Program awards is an important i... Read more

Today, Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21) signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on H.R. 1010, legislation that would over the next three years raise wages to $10.10 an hour for more than 1.06 million Florida workers. Florida is only second to Texas in the number of workers whose paychecks leave them hovering at the federal poverty line. The majority of Americans earning the minimum wage are women, and the average worker who stands to gain under H.R. 1010 is 35 years old. “Corporate profit... Read more

U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (FL-21) and Bill Foster (IL-11) are urging the Obama administration to end the wasteful, unjust, and arbitrary immigrant detention mandate. In a letter co-signed by 26 of their House colleagues to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Reps. Deutch and Foster request that the current requirement that Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) keep at least 34,000 people in detention facilities be removed from the President's Fiscal... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) joined Congressman John Sarbanes (MD-3) to introduce the Government by the People Act, legislation that would reduce the influence of big money campaign donors in Washington by amplifying the voices of everyday Americans in our elections. According to the Sunlight Foundation, about 30,000 Americans amounting to just .01 percent of the U.S. population spent a combined $6 billion in an effort to influence the 2012 elections. The Government by the People Act ai... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch issued this statement after voting against H.R. 2642, the House and Senate conference report on the farm bill: "While this final farm bill is a vast improvement over previous proposals, I could not in good conscience vote for legislation that increases hunger in America while expanding and re-opening tax loopholes that benefit the wealthiest few. "This bill cuts another $8.6 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next decade, and that is on top... Read more

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

During a House Judiciary Committee hearing on H.R. 7, a bill that aims to prevent women from using their own private health insurance coverage to pay for abortion-related care, Congressman Ted Deutch delivered a powerful rebuke of his GOP colleagues' policy priorities. Rather than attacking women's constitutionally-protected rights, Congressman Deutch urged his GOP colleagues to consider an agenda that reflects the priorities of American women - ensuring equal pay for equal work, increasing the ... 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