Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) sent a letter to Florida Governor Rick Scott that commends him for admitting in an interview this Wednesday with CNN’s Soledad O’Brien that additional early voting days are needed for elections in Florida. “I was pleasantly surprised and heartened to hear you acknowledge the need for additional early voting hours in Florida while being interviewed this past Wednesday," said Congressman Deutch. "I stand ready to support your efforts in the coming session of th... Read more

After attending a vigil for the victims of the horrific killings at Sandy Hook Elementary School last Friday in Newtown, Connecticut, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) delivered these remarks on the House floor: Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-NC) introduced the Carcinogen-Free Label Act, legislation that will empower Americans to reduce their exposure to cancer-causing agents found in every day consumer products. The Carcinogen-Free Label Act will create a voluntary application process for manufacturers to verify their products are free of known carcinogens and market their goods to consumers with a certified “carcinogen-free” label. As opposed to imposing mandates ... Read more

"On Veterans Day, we as a people have the opportunity to recommit ourselves to serving those who served us, from World War II all the way through the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. This year, we salute our servicemen and women as a decade of war comes to an end. Their mission may be complete, but our work of caring for them and promoting their success at home is just beginning. It is my hope that this Veteran’s Day will serve as a reminder to keep the men and women of our armed forces, and their ... Read more

(Delray Beach, FL) With lies and distortions about the Affordable Care Act's impact on Medicare bound to be repeated by Congressman Paul Ryan (R-WI) during the vice presidential debate, tomorrow morning Congressman Ted Deutch will host a forum entitled, "The True Savings for Medicare Under the Affordable Care Act," at the Weisman Center in Delray Beach. There, Congressman Deutch will detail to seniors exactly how health care reform works to strengthen Medicare by saving billions of dollars and i... Read more

(Boca Raton, FL) The recent discovery of $74 million in Medicare fraud orchestrated by home health providers in Miami has prompted Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) to join a new effort in Congress to target this rising threat to the Medicare system. Today, Rep. Deutch announced he is joining colleagues Reps. Jim McGovern (D-MA) and Walter Jones (R-NC) in calling for a temporary moratorium on new home health agencies until more aggressive anti-fraud protections are implemented. “I applaud Secretary ... Read more

Today, Rep. Ted Deutch sent Florida Governor Scott a letter demanding an immediate bipartisan task force to investigate the growing voter fraud scandal surrounding a firm hired by the Florida Republican Party, Strategic Allied Consulting. “Governor Scott, we are on the cusp of a Presidential election,” writes Rep. Deutch. Disturbing reports suggest that professionally coordinated voter fraud occurred in Florida that is potentially massive in scale. Your silence and inaction are shocking and I r... Read more

Last night, Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) successfully passed the first piece of legislation aiming to address the plight of American homeowners suffering from contaminated drywall in their homes since reports of the destructive material began to surface in 2009. The Drywall Wall Safety Act, co-introduced with Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA), would pressure the Chinese government to submit manufacturers of this tainted drywall to the jurisdiction of the U.S. court system and establish new safeguards to preven... Read more

Today, the House passed the Child and Elderly Missing Alert Program Act of 2012, legislation co-introduced by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) and Rep. Steve Chabot (R-OH) to bolster the ability of federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to find missing children and elderly persons in the critical first hours they go missing. H.R. 4305 makes nonprofits, including the Fort Lauderdale-based A Child is Missing, eligible for federal grants and cooperative agreements with law enforcement agencies na... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and Congressman Gregory Meeks (D-NY), the ranking member of the Foreign Affairs Committee Subcommittee on Europe, have sent a letter to United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon calling on him to use his visit to Tehran for the Non-Aligned Movement Conference to deliver a strong message to the Iranian regime that the international community does not accept its illicit nuclear weapons program. The letter also calls... Read more