This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed Chairman Ted Deutch's (D-FL) resolution commemorating the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish Community Center in Buenos Aires and demanding justice and accountability for those responsible for the attack. The text of the resolution can be accessed here.The resolution passed the House Foreign Affairs Committee unanimously on June 20, 2019. This resolution was jointly introduced by Congressman Ted Deutch, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs S... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch's (D-FL) Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, legislation to make animal cruelty a federal offense, has garnered more than 270 bipartisan cosponsors, making it one of the most widely supported bills in the 116th Congress. Sydney Helfand participated in Monday's press conference. She is a high-school students who started a petition to support the PACT Act and garnered over 650,000 signatures. Congressman Deutch introduced the PACT Act with Congressman Vern Buch... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Congressman Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL) introduced the EAGLES Act, legislation named for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagles to expand the U.S. Secret Service’s National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) with a greater focus on school violence prevention. The NTAC provides research and training for threat assessment and targeted violence, including school shootings and other school threats. This legislation creates a national program on targeted sc... Read more

After the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement: "House Democrats just passed a national defense bill that will ensure our nation provides for our men and women in uniform and strengthens our military resolve around the world, including by ensuring the reckless decisions by President Trump don’t lead us to unnecessary conflict. "We prioritized the needs of our military by passing the ... Read more

Today, Representative Ted Deutch (FL-22) and Representative Roger Williams (TX-25) introduced the School Violence Prevention and Mitigation Act of 2019, a bill which establishes federal grant programs for public schools to identify and mitigate vulnerabilities in their security related infrastructure. “Over a year after the tragedy at Stoneman Douglas High School in my district, our country continues to search for ways to keep our children safe in schools. Part of addressing threats to our schoo... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement following reports that Spanish River High School Principal William Latson told a parent that he “can’t say the Holocaust is a factual, historical event” and “not everyone believes the Holocaust happened" and the principal's reassignment by the Palm Beach County School District: "I really don't understand how the principal of Spanish River Community High School in Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, could question the historical fact that i... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and a nine-member bipartisan Congressional delegation concluded visits to Qatar, Cyprus, and Greece. The delegation visited U.S. troops at al-Udeid Air Base, the largest American military installation in the Middle East, on July 4. In Qatar, the delegation received a briefing from Major General B. Chance Saltzman on threats to U.S. interests in the region and military operations in Afghanistan and Syria. The group also toured the Combined Air Operations Center, whic... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and a Congressional delegation concluded three days of meetings in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Ramallah with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh, leading Knesset members Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid, top Israeli security officials, and Palestinian and Israeli civil society organizations. The group also visited Augusta Victoria Hospital, which has received funding from the U.S. Agency for International Developm... Read more

This afternoon, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Securing America’s Federal Elections (SAFE) Act of 2019 (H.R. 2722), legislation to guard against foreign interference in our democracy. This bill would provide funding to states to replace outdated and vulnerable voting equipment, mandate paper ballot voting systems and risk-limiting post-election audits, and mandate strict cybersecurity requirements for both election technology vendors and for voting systems. "We know that Russians i... Read more

Following passage of a supplemental funding bill for border security and humanitarian assistance on the southern border, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement: "The conditions in these federal facilities housing migrant children are appalling and should offend every American. There is no excuse for failing to provide these children with even the most basic necessities to keep them clean and safe. The Administration must answer to Congress and the American people what will be done ... Read more