Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of H.R.3743, the Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011. The payroll tax cut went into effect a year ago and has provided $110 billion of tax relief to 159 million American workers. While President Obama has called on Congress to extend and expand the payroll tax cut, partisan bickering has prevented a complete extension of the tax relief. Economists have warned that failure to extend the payroll tax cut would hurt the still fragil... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor H.R. 3741, the Rilya Wilson Act, which is designed to protect foster children and to ensure that every state has a procedure in place to promptly report their disappearance. This bill was named after Rilya Wilson, a four-year-old girl who went missing in South Florida in 2001. Her foster mother, Geralyn Graham, continued to collect payments from the Florida Department of Children and Families (DCF) for 15 months after her disappearance, during ... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-19) hailed a global class action settlement announced late last night that will help American homeowners affected by contaminated drywall from China. Thousands of homeowners living in South Florida and thirty-eight other states have been victims of defective Chinese drywall that corrodes electrical wiring, damages household appliances, and is associated with an array of serious health problems. The agreement reached between the Plaintiffs’ Steering Committee (PS... Read more

Rep. Ted Deutch released this statement in reaction to Rep. Allen West's (FL-22) assertion that public opinion has turned against Republicans in Congress not due to their failure to create jobs and grow the economy but due to Democrats' usage of Nazi-style propaganda: "I am shocked that Rep. West invoked Nazi Joseph Goebbels to criticize Democrats. By comparing the way Democrats defend our record to the way the Nazi Minister of Propaganda attempted to defend and even justify the murder of 6 mill... Read more

Saving American Democracy Amendment Filed in Senate as Companion to OCCUPIED Amendment in House (Washington, DC) Today, Congressman Ted Deutch’s (D-FL) constitutional amendment to ban all corporate spending in elections and make clear that corporations are not people with constitutionally protected rights will be introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT). TheSaving American Democracy Amendment is companion legislation to Congressman Deutch’s H.J. Res 90, the Outlawi... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor H.R. 3613, the bipartisan Part D Beneficiary Appeals Fairness Act, which would give seniors on Medicare Part D who rely on ‘specialty tier’ drugs an appeals process when dealing with the high costs of these prescriptions. Private and employer health insurance plans classify prescriptions using tiers to differentiate among generic, brand name and “non-preferred” brand name drugs. Any medication costing more than $600 is automatically placed on a... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of H.R. 3572, the Cameras in the Court Room Act of 2011. With no way for Americans to watch its proceedings and only 50 seats available in the courtroom, the Supreme Court remains the least transparent branch of our federal government. That’s why Congressman Deutch is cosponsoring a bipartisan bill first introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in the United States Senate that will enable Americans to watch arguments ... Read more

Saturday, December 3rd, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-19) and Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-20) will host a Veterans Jobs Fair at the Fort Lauderdale Armory. This event follows the recent passage of new tax credits for employers who hire unemployed veterans included in President Obama’s American Jobs Act. With so many of our troops returning home to a difficult economy after serving bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan, this event will provide some of our servicemen and women with an opport... Read more

“Today, I stand with billions of people worldwide in the fight against HIV/AIDS. Since the first confirmed diagnosis of HIV/AIDS in the United States thirty years ago, we have made tremendous progress. Though this disease was met with silence from public officials in its early years, today, implementing the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and creating an AIDS-free generation are bipartisan efforts. Federal prevention and treatment programs, like Ryan White and PEPFAR, as well as decades of federally... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has cosponsored H.R. 618, the Rare Earths and Critical Materials Revitalization Act of 2011. Today, China controls approximately 97 percent of the world’s commercial supply of rare earth minerals, and a recent Wall Street Journal article documented that China is building a strategic stockpile of these materials that may strengthen their ability to control global prices and access. China has imposed increasingly strict export quotas on rare earths since 2006, putting pressu... Read more