On Thursday, February 5, at 1:00 PM, Senators Bob Menendez (D-NJ), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), and Chris Murphy (D-CT) join Reps. Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Diana DeGette (D-CO), Ted Deutch (D-FL), and Elizabeth Esty (D-CT), and advocates from Newtown Action Alliance in holding a press conference calling attention to new gun violence prevention efforts in Congress. Families from Newtown, CT, will be on Capitol Hill this week meeting with new Members of Congress to discuss these reforms. Senator Menendez... Read more

Congressman Deutch (FL-21) has signed on as an original cosponsor of H.R. 727, the Puerto Rico Statehood Admission Process Act. This legislation sets forth the process for Puerto Rico to be admitted as a State of the Union. In the last elections, 61 percent of Puerto Rican voters voice their favor for statehood. The bill proposes a federally sanctioned referendum vote on statehood in Puerto Rico. A majority “yes” vote would trigger a transition period culminating in Puerto Rico's admission as a ... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch joined Congressman Earl Blumenauer (OR-3) to introduce the Update, Promote, and Develop America's Transportation Essentials Act (UPDATE) of 2015. This legislation gradually phases in a fifteen cent gas tax over three years on gasoline and diesel fuels in order to boost funding for the Highway Trust Fund that finances critical road improvement and transportation projects across the country. The United States recently received a D+ grade from the American Society of C... Read more

With this year’s election cycle shaping up to be the most expensive in American history, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) introduced new legislation to hold Super PACs, campaigns, and other organizations accountable for the claims made in their political advertisements. The Campaign Sunlight Act amends the Federal Elections Campaign Act of 1971 to require the sponsors of political advertisements to make the contents and sources of information used in television, print, and other type of ads availab... Read more

Today, Congressman Deutch signed on as a cosponsor of legislation to understand the effects of gun violence on public health. Deutch is a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, which has jurisdiction over gun issues. This legislation would require the Surgeon General to submit to Congress an annual report on the effects of gun violence on the public health. This comprehensive report would address deaths, disabilities, mental health ailments or economic hardships caused by gun violence. ... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) sent a letter to Marilyn Tavenner, the outgoing Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, urging that she make a plan for removing Social Security numbers from Medicare beneficiary cards a priority before she leaves office. The letter highlights the overwhelming consensus from privacy advocates, consumers, and Members of Congress in support of this change, which would better protect the more than 50 million Americans who rely on Medicar... Read more

Today, U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21) announced the introduction of a bipartisan congressional resolution with Reps. Chris Smith (NJ-04), Eliot Engel (NY-16), Nita Lowey (NY-17), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27), Steve Israel (NY-03), and Peter Roskam (IL-06) recognizing the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz that took place on January 27, 1945. More than 1.1 million people lost their lives in the Auschwitz concentration camps, making it one of the deadliest ... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) will travel to the United Nations in New York to speak at the U.N. General Assembly’s first-ever meeting on global anti-Semitism. Congressman Deutch, a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, Ranking Democrat on the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, and member of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee, will be one of just two U.S. officials addressing the conference, the other being U.S. Ambassador Samantha Power. Earli... Read more

By Rep. Ted Deutch I’m taking a break in February. Not from my official duties, but from raising money for my campaign in Washington when Congress is in session and I should be most focused on serving my constituents. You may have heard of Movember. Allow me to introduce Fundraising Free February. Americans are in near universal agreement that Congress is broken. Sweeping bipartisan policy initiatives have been replaced with negativity and partisanship. Politicians on both sides decry this toxi... Read more

Today, on the five-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s 5-4 ruling in Citizens United v. FEC, U.S. Representative Ted Deutch (FL-21) was joined by Reps. Donna F. Edwards (MD-4), and Jim McGovern (MA-2) and over 80 of their House colleagues to introduce the Democracy for All Amendment. H.J. Res 22 is a proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would reverse highly controversial Supreme Court decisions like Citizens United v. FEC and McCutcheon v. FEC, which have given corporations and A... Read more