Today, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) joined Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Jerrold Nadler, along with U.S. Senators Bob Casey (D-PA) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NJ) on an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in opposition to discrimination against pregnant women in the workplace. The 123 members of Congress signing the amicus curiae brief urging the Supreme Court to reverse a lower court decision in which Peggy Young was denied accommodations to continue working during her pregnancy prov...
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The Transparency in Visa Reporting to Protect American Jobs and Prevent Human Trafficking Act is newly introduced legislation by Reps. Ted Deutch (FL-21), Lois Frankel (FL-22), and Jim Himes (CT-4) to bring long overdue transparency to temporary foreign worker visa programs. Currently, federal data about temporary work visas is managed by three separate federal agencies using different standards that are not disclosed to the public. The lack of publically available data impedes efforts by law en...
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Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) have submitted written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee for its hearing today, “Examining a Constitutional Amendment to Restore Democracy to the American People.” Last year, Congressman Deutch and Senator Sanders co-introduced the Democracy is for People Amendment, a proposed constitutional amendment that would overturn the Supreme Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United v. FEC, immediately ban corporate spending in e...
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Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21), Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, is working with Subcommittee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) and Congressman Steve Israel (NY-03) to protect the exiled Iraqi Jewish community’s access to a collection of nearly 2,700 Jewish artifacts, including Torah parchments, ancient prayer books, and other records. After Iraq’s Jewish community fled the country in the 1930s and 1940s, these items were sei...
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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...
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Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as an original cosponsor of the Elder Protection and Abuse Prevention Act (H.R. 3090). This legislation will strengthen local and state programs to better protect seniors from abuse, neglect, and exploitation, and increase resources available to seniors to report and respond to these abuses. Florida’s 21st district is home to many seniors and retirees, who deserve the utmost respect and access to the resources they need. The Elder Protection and Abuse Prevent...
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Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of the Human Trafficking Prioritization Act (H.R. 2283). This legislation will improve our nation’s effectiveness in combating human trafficking while maintaining the current budget and number of personnel allotted to the State Department’s Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. The Human Trafficking Prioritization Act would elevate the status of the Office to a Bureau in the State Department, headed by an Assistant Secretary. Gra...
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Congressman Ted Deutch has signed on as a cosponsor of the Pet Safety and Protection Act of 2013 (H.R. 2224). This legislation, introduced by Congressman Michael Doyle, would ensure that animals being used for research purposes are obtained only from very specific sources that must meet certain conditions. Currently, the Animal Welfare Act regulates the treatment and care of animals during the other phases of the research period. However the law lacks a clear policy regulating from where these r...
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In response to growing concerns about the scope of NSA surveillance programs, Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) has cosponsored H.R. 2475, the Ending Secret Law Act. This legislation would address concerns over the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court's (FISC) ability to drastically expand federal surveillance powers without disclosure to the American public. Some of these concerns were first brought to the attention of the U.S. Justice Department in the fall of 2012, when Senators Ron Wyden (D-...
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Congressman Ted Deutch (FL-21) and Congressman Bill Foster (IL-11) have introduced the Protecting Immigrants from Legal Exploitation Act to shield immigrants from fraudulent and unethical legal representation. The legislation outlines specific penalties for “notarios” who intentionally mislead immigrants by providing fraudulent services. It also provides immigrants with the opportunity to resubmit application materials completed by fraudulent attorneys. “Notarios” or “immigration consultants” ha...
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