Ted Deutch

I thank my friend from Texas for yielding. Mr. Speaker, many veterans face extraordinary obstacles when they return home, especially in retirement. Too often, one of the obstacles to a safe and secure retirement for our veterans are…

It's time that we adopt this amendment.

It has been just 20 days since the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida; but when you spend those days going to funerals and memorial services and vigils, and when you spend those days meeting with grieving…

The only path to lasting peace is two states for two peoples, a safe and secure Israel living side-by-side with a prosperous Palestinian state.

What concerns me, and what I hope we have the opportunity to discuss today, is how approaching this issue without a strategy is potentially damaging to the prospects for peace and, ultimately, to U.S. interests.

It is really unsettling that when asked in an interview this week if Israel has the right to defend itself if Iran establishes permanent basis in Syria and Lebanon, the President said, 'I don't want to comment on that right now.'

Support for Israel and peace and security in the Middle East has always enjoyed deep bipartisan support in Congress.

So the President acknowledges Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Last year, American culture experienced a moment of reckoning. It doesn't matter what political party; it doesn't matter what industry; it doesn't matter when or where: sexual harassment and sexual violence are unacceptable. America has…

You helped the American people and those around the world understand the brutal reality of life in Syria today.

I think I heard unanimous recognition and concern from the panel of Iran's increased role in Syria.

While this conflict is not only a dire humanitarian crisis it is a deeply consequential geopolitical conflict and we cannot, we cannot ignore the impact of either.

What may have begun as a civil war has morphed into a complex array of geopolitical power struggles and proxy conflicts.

I thank my friend from the Philadelphia area who has introduced this important piece of legislation with Mr. Fitzpatrick, another fine Representative from the Philadelphia sports- loving area, which gives me the opportunity on the House…

We have since passed a bill bearing his name, the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act to hold the Assad regime and its international backers accountable for the ongoing atrocities.

I thank my friend from Pennsylvania, and I greatly appreciate the chairman for his unanimous consent request. I want to thank Chairman Ros-Lehtinen for her tremendous leadership in helping advance H.R. 2646, the United States Jordan…

These goals are laudable, and they are important, but the speech contained little in the way of concrete strategies to actually achieve these goals.

We have urgently been asking the administration for clarity on its greater strategy for the future of Syria.

One of the objectives for Syria according to Secretary Tillerson is to diminish Iranian influence.

Creating a system that protects artists and art... matters to our humanity.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I want to add my voice to the many others and tell you what an honor it has been to serve under your capable leadership.

If you are right, that is for the good actors. And I hope perhaps we can have a hearing in the future about how it is that a terror group, for example, can utilize a virtual currency in order to acquire, in the worst case scenario…

In the past couple of weeks, tens of thousands of Iranian citizens from a broad cross-section of society took to the streets to demand accountability and change in their country. This was the largest mass protest since the Green Revolution…

Jordan is key to stability in the region that now faces a slew of destabilizing forces.

At a time when the American public is rightly concerned about Putin's aggressive posture in Russia, meddling in the U.S. elections, and sowing instability in Europe, we have a natural partner in Ukraine.