When violence strikes our community, we must stand together in solidarity with those whose lives have been forever changed - fifty families who now have a hole that will never be filled, and over fifty more whose injuries and trauma will affect them from this day forward. After the deadliest mass shooting in American history, I feel so deeply for these families, the city of Orlando, our state of Florida, and our nation. I stand with the LGBT community this Pride month and whenever members of ...
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Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL), Vice Chair of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus and Chair of the LGBT Aging Issues Task Force, issued this statement in response to the recent anti-LGBT legislation signed into law in North Carolina and Mississippi: “With the stroke of a pen, Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant and North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory joined a list of elected officials who hold on to and impose regressive and discriminatory beliefs, even as the American people have made strides mo...
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Congressman Tom Rooney (R-FL) and Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) yesterday introduced the Preventing Crimes Against Veterans Act in order to adequately protect veterans from scam artists who target them for profit. Congressman Rooney, a member of the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Veterans Affairs, and Congressman Ted Deutch, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, are working together to advance a bipartisan fix to a glaring loophole in current law that leaves America's veterans ...
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"It’s not too often that elected officials suggest such a real bargain, yet U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has offered Florida voters exactly that," writes the Palm Beach Post Editorial Board. The following editorial was published by the Palm Beach Post on Friday, February 26, 2016. Palm Beach Post Editorial: Florida should join national voter registration database It’s not too often that elected officials suggest such a real bargain, yet U.S. Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Boca Raton, has offered Flor...
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Congressman Deutch (FL-21), a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, has introduced H.R. 4606, the Status of the Sixth Amendment Act. This bill would require states to report on the number of defendants appearing in felony cases, misdemeanor cases, and juvenile delinquency proceedings without representation by counsel. States would have three years to begin providing this information to the Department of Justice, which would then be posted and available to the public on the DOJ website....
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Today, the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus announced the creation of a new task force to push for legislative and administrative action to protect the dignity and security of elderly LGBT people. Rep. Ted Deutch (D-FL) has accepted the Caucus Co-Chairs’ request to serve as chair of the bipartisan task force, which includes Reps. David Cicilline (D-RI) and Mark Takano (D-CA), Co-Chairs of the LGBT Equality Caucus; Ted Lieu (D-CA), Vice Chair of the LGBT Equality Caucus; and LGBT Equality Caucu...
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Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) sent a letter to Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner urging that Florida join the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC), a nationwide not-for-profit database designed to help states modernize their outdated voter registration systems. The ERIC system leverages data from official sources to help states improve the accuracy of their voting rolls, combat multi-state voter registrations and other potential sources of fraud, and increase access to v...
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Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) issued this statement in reaction to President Obama's final State of the Union address: “Tonight, President Obama argued that a bright future awaits our nation should we as a people come together to work for it. Our nation has made great strides in recent years, with a deficit reduced by a trillion dollars, an unemployment rate cut in half, and a health care system that covers 18 million more Americans. Yet as the sponsor of the Democracy for All Amendment, I whole...
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Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Boca Raton) announced a new appointment scheduling system at the IRS Taxpayer Assistance Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. Last fall, Congressman Deutch was appalled to learn that taxpayers were lining up outside the West Palm Beach IRS office as early as 4:00 am for a chance at getting in-person help regarding identity theft, tax payments, and other issues. After directly raising his concerns to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen, Congressman Deutch was informed t...
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Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL) and his fellow co-Chairs of the Bipartisan Taskforce forCombatting Anti-Semitism sent a letter to Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán protesting the construction of a monument to Bálint Homan, a former Hungarian Minister implicated in sending over half a million Jewish Hungarians to their deaths during the Holocaust. The Bipartisan Taskforce for Combating Anti-Semitism is co-chaired by U.S. Representatives Chris Smith (R-NJ), Nita Lowey (D-NY), Eliot Engel ...
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