Today, Rep. Ted Deutch (FL-21) signed a discharge petition to force an up-or-down vote on H.R. 1010, legislation that would over the next three years raise wages to $10.10 an hour for more than 1.06 million Florida workers. Florida is only second to Texas in the number of workers whose paychecks leave them hovering at the federal poverty line. The majority of Americans earning the minimum wage are women, and the average worker who stands to gain under H.R. 1010 is 35 years old. “Corporate profit... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), who earlier this week joined 117 colleagues in urging the Obama Administration to reject the Chained-CPI, issued this statement on the President's decision to drop the misguided policy from his Fiscal Year 2015 budget: "​I applaud President Obama for drafting a budget that does not include cutting Social Security's cost-of-living adjustments, which are incredibly meager already and too often non-existent. This is a victory for the many seniors I represent who rely... Read more

As a result of legislation passed by Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), on March 18, 2014 President Obama will award Medals of Honor posthumously to 21 veterans, including Private First Class Leonard Kravitz. PFC Leonard Kravtiz received the Distinguish Service Cross after giving his life in an extraordinary act of heroism during the Korean War, yet at the time he was also recommended for the Medal of Honor. PFC Kravitz sacrificed himself for his platoon when he took over a machine gun, fired into ... Read more

U.S. Representatives Ted Deutch (FL-21) and Bill Foster (IL-11) are urging the Obama administration to end the wasteful, unjust, and arbitrary immigrant detention mandate. In a letter co-signed by 26 of their House colleagues to Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Sylvia Mathews Burwell, Reps. Deutch and Foster request that the current requirement that Immigration and Customers Enforcement (ICE) keep at least 34,000 people in detention facilities be removed from the President's Fiscal... Read more

Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) joined Congressman John Sarbanes (MD-3) to introduce the Government by the People Act, legislation that would reduce the influence of big money campaign donors in Washington by amplifying the voices of everyday Americans in our elections. According to the Sunlight Foundation, about 30,000 Americans amounting to just .01 percent of the U.S. population spent a combined $6 billion in an effort to influence the 2012 elections. The Government by the People Act ai... Read more

Today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee passed H.R. 938, the United States-Israel Strategic Partnership Act, legislation introduced by Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL), Ranking Member of the Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee and Subcommittee Chairman Illeana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL). This bipartisan legislation enhances the broad scope of cooperation between the U.S. and Israel in an array of areas, including military strategy, security, energy, and trade. “The United States-Israel Strategic Partner... Read more

Congressman Ted Deutch issued this statement after voting against H.R. 2642, the House and Senate conference report on the farm bill: "While this final farm bill is a vast improvement over previous proposals, I could not in good conscience vote for legislation that increases hunger in America while expanding and re-opening tax loopholes that benefit the wealthiest few. "This bill cuts another $8.6 billion from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program over the next decade, and that is on top... 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

Washington, DC -- Today, Congressmen Bill Foster (IL-11) and Ted Deutch (FL-21) introduced the Immigrant Detainee Legal Rights Act. The legislation would protect access to basic legal rights for immigrants placed in detention. It would also streamline inefficient and ineffective court processes, saving taxpayers money. A copy of the bill is available here. Every day, thousands of immigrants are placed into detention without full knowledge of why they are being held, what their rights are, or how... Read more

Friends, Too often our day to day lives leave little time for enjoying a good book. That’s why I wanted to bring your attention to “Read Together: Palm Beach County,” an exciting initiative bringing thousands of adults in our community together by reading the same book at the same time. (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/all.js#xfbml=1"; fjs.parentNode.inse... Read more