Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) has cosponsored H.R. 506, Jane’s Law. H.R. 506, also known as Jane’s Law, amends the federal criminal code and creates a fine and/or prison term on individuals that attempt to evade complying with divorce proceedings related to property distribution of over $5,000. In the situation that a person travels in interstate or foreign commerce to evade the court-ordered property decision, they would be required to pay restitution equivalent to the amount of unpaid propert... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee and Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa, is part of a bipartisan delegation of 14 member of Congress led by Senator John McCain (R-AZ) participating in the Munich Security Conference this weekend in Munich, Germany. Also attending is Vice President Joe Biden, who will be addressing the conference on the future of transatlantic security policy. This year's gathering of high-rankin... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of H.R. 321, the Firearm Safety and Public Health Research Act of 2013. Current law passed in 1996 prohibits research into firearm safety and violence by federal agencies under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), such as the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and National Institutes of Health (NIH). As part of President Obama’s executive orders issued in January 2013, the CDC was ordered to resume research on these public health c... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) has cosponsored H.R. 437, the Assault Weapons Ban of 2013. This bill works to eliminate the amount of semiautomatic assault weapons in the U.S. Semiautomatic weapons, which are weapons that can shoot over 10 shots in a row, would not be accessible on the shelves of stores. These weapons give a gunman the ability to fire a large number of rounds in a very short period of time without having to stop and reload the weapon. The bill amends the federal criminal code to ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a member of the House Judiciary Committee, released this statement in reaction to news that the Senate has made progress on a bipartisan approach to immigration reform: "Divided government by definition requires bipartisan compromise, so I am encouraged that Senate Democrats and Republicans are working together to fix our broken immigration system. We cannot afford to maintain an underground economy of millions of undocumented workers, nor should we keep exporting... Read more

“On International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we remember the millions of victims who died at the hands of Nazi brutality before liberation troops arrived at Auschwitz 67 years ago today. We must honor those who perished by recommitting ourselves to the task of ensuring such atrocities never plague humankind again. As a member of Congress from South Florida, home to one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors in the world, I will always do everything in my power to ensure that the loved... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch has cosponsored H.R. 427, the Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act. The Trafficking Reduction and Criminal Enforcement (TRACE) Act requires each firearm manufactured in the United States to have a serial number marked inside the firearm’s receiver or that is only visible through infrared light, in addition to other marking requirements. It amends existing federal code to allow funds to be used in systems that do not destroy identifying information of ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) released this statement on new data showing that today the number of Americans without unemployment insurance will grow to more 87,600 in Florida and 1.6 million nationwide. Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee based these estimates on the number of Americans looking for work who have lost their unemployment insurance each week. Across the country, an average of nearly 72,000 job seekers have stopped receiving this vital assistance each week since Decemb... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), a member of the House Judiciary Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has been tapped by Democratic leaders to take on a third assignment as a member of the House Ethics Committee in the 113th Congress. Congressman Deutch’s latest committee assignment comes just a week after he was elected as Ranking Democrat on the Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Serving on the House Ethics Committee requires ... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) has signed on as an original cosponsor of H.R. 12, the Voter Empowerment Act of 2013. As witnessed during the 2012 general election, there is a continued need to improve the processes and standards for voting in this country. Many Americans waited in line for hours to vote or were forced to cast provisional ballots. Others fell victim to false information scams or were subjected to restrictive early voting policies. Congress must take legislative action to rectify ... Read more