Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) has joined Congresswoman Martha McSally (AZ-2) and 17 other Members of Congress in introducing the bipartisan Humane Cosmetics Act. This legislation would eliminate cosmetic testing on animals within one year, and it would ban the sale of cosmetics that were developed using animal testing within three years. Many European countries have already adopted similar laws against cosmetic testing on animals. Alternative methods would not only be more humane, but could pro... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), along with Congressman Tony Cardenas (CA-29) and 103 other Members of Congress, has co-introduced legislation to require that a committee hearing be held whenever there is a moment of silence in the House for a tragedy involving gun violence. The bill requires the committee hearing to be held within ten legislative days following the moment of silence. “We cannot accept a world in which we don’t have time to mourn lives lost in one shooting before another occurs."... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement in response to President Trump’s budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2018: "The President’s budget is morally bankrupt, cruelly demonizes the needy, and is premised on phony economic theories and farcical math. "If a President’s budget is meant to convey his values and priorities, then President Trump is making quite clear his contempt for working families and the most vulnerable Americans. In the President’s ideal America, the extremely rich rece... Read more

(Washington) Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, spoke during a House Judiciary Committee markup hearing against H.R. 2431, the “Michael Davis, Jr. and Danny Oliver in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act.” Calling it President Trump's "mass deportation act," Congressman Deutch strongly opposes the bill's criminalization of undocumented immigrants in the United States and "massive buildup and militarization of deportation forces and detention... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Vice Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus and Chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Task Force, led 48 of his House colleagues in demanding the Trump Administration reinstate LGBT demographic questions to the National Survey of Older Americans Act Participants (NSOAAP). The NSOAAP is used to evaluate whether the billions of dollars in funding for programs assisting older Americans are being used efficiently and effectively. Since 2014, the NSOAAP has included LGBT-sp... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), a Vice Chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and the Chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Task Force, joined 193 of his colleagues to introduce the Equality Act, a landmark civil rights legislation that would guarantee federal protections for LGBT individuals. The Equality Act amends the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to add nondiscrimination protections on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in education, employment, housing, credit, federal ... 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

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) reintroduced the Buyback our Safety Act, legislation to create a modestly-funded pilot program at the Department of Justice aimed at bolstering local gun buyback initiatives nationwide. The Buyback our Safety Act authorizes a new matching grant for local law enforcement agencies to seek funding to offset the cost of their buyback programs. The bill requires the Department of Justice to report back to Congress on the success of the grant program. “We need a m... Read more

When violence strikes our community, we must stand together in solidarity with those whose lives have been forever changed - fifty families who now have a hole that will never be filled, and over fifty more whose injuries and trauma will affect them from this day forward. After the deadliest mass shooting in American history, I feel so deeply for these families, the city of ‪‎Orlando‬, our state of Florida, and our nation. I stand with the LGBT community this Pride month and whenever members of ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), Vice Chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and Chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Task Force, issued this statement in response to the recent anti-LGBT legislation signed into law in North Carolina and Mississippi: “With the stroke of a pen, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory joined a list of elected officials who hold on to and impose regressive and discriminatory beliefs, even as the American people have made strides mo... Read more