Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Vice Chair of the Democracy Reform Task Force, issued this statement following House passage of the "For The People Act" (HR 1): "Today, House Democrats stood united in support of sweeping reforms that will restore a government of, by, and for the American people. "Over the past decade, America’s elections have been broken by the Supreme Court’s disastrous Citizens United decision that has allowed unlimited campaign spending and unaccountable dark money, gerrymand... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) issued this statement following passage of House Resolution 183 condemning anti-Semitism: "Today the House of Representatives voted to condemn anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, bigotry, racism, and hatred of all kinds. All are worthy of condemnation. I joined my colleagues in condemning them all. But I feel let down by some colleagues who seem to have questioned those of us who feel the weight of history when we hear classic anti-Semitic language – history that has led ... Read more

Today, March 7, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (NY-10), and Immigration and Citizenship Subcommittee Chairperson Zoe Lofgren (CA-19) sent a letter to Jonathan Hayes, the Acting Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, urging him to brief Members of Congress on reports of allegations of inappropriate sexual conduct, including sexual abuse and harassment, of unaccompanied minors under the... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, Congressman Joe Wilson (SC-02), Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on the Middle East, North Africa, and International Terrorism, Congressman Ted Lieu (CA-33), and Congressman Michael Waltz (FL-06) introduced legislation to strengthen United States government recovery efforts of American hostages abroad. The legislation would empower the Preside... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) and United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.) sent a letter to Joel Brasfield, President of Prisoner Transportation Services, LLC (PTS), a private prisoner transport company that contracts with state and local law enforcement agencies and correctional facilities to transport pretrial arrestees and prisoners across interstate or intrastate jurisdictional lines. Text of the Letter (PDF) PTS and its subsidiaries have come under scrutin... Read more

Representatives Nita Lowey (D-NY), Chris Smith (R-NJ), Eliot Engel (D-NY), Kay Granger (R-TX), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Randy Weber (R-TX), Marc Veasey (D-TX), and Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA) re-launched the Bipartisan Task Force for Combating Anti-Semitism in the House of Representatives for the 116th Congress. As the Co-Chairs of the Task Force, the Members of Congress issued the following joint statement: "The age-old scourge of anti-Semitism remains a very serious problem today. It was just under fou... Read more

Moments ago, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019 (H.R. 8) to require universal background checks for all firearm purchases. This is the first major gun violence legislation passed by the House in decades. Upon passage of the legislation, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Chief Whip of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, issued this statement: "This has been a long and hard-fought battle by so many advocates of gun violence prevention, and I th... Read more

During this morning's House Judiciary Committee hearing titled "Oversight of the Trump Administration's Family Separation Policy," Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22) released documents from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) exposing the extent of sexual assault cases of children in their custody. Unaccompanied minors and children separated from their parents at the border are held by HHS's Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR). According to physical documents delivered by HHS to... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-22), Chief Whip of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force, recently introduced four bills to address gun violence in the United States. On Thursday, Congressman Deutch introduced the National Firearms Amendment Act, which would add semiautomatic rifles that can accept a detachable magazine as a category of firearm regulated by the National Firearms Act (NFA). The NFA, enacted by Congress following a horrific Valentine's Day gun violence massacre in 1929, applies tight ... Read more

To mark one year since the gun violence tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School which left 17 students and school staff dead and 17 others injured, Congressman Deutch issued this statement: "Our community and the nation will never forget the tragedy one year ago today, on February 14, 2018, when 17 lives were taken from us. This will be a difficult day for the Stoneman Douglas community, especially for the families of the victims and the survivors. Thousands of lives were changed forever... Read more