Ted Deutch

We praise them for doing that.

It's estimated this year more than 60,000 children will cross the U.S.-Mexican border without parents or guardians.

This is a humanitarian crisis.

Libya, unlike many of its Arab Spring neighbors, doesn't need U.S. dollars. It needs U.S. expertise.

This year we mark the 50th anniversary of the 1964 Freedom Summer, when hundreds of Americans traveled to Mississippi to fight discrimination and advance voting rights and equality under the law. Today I rise to recognize three Americans…

I want to thank you for co-introducing with me and for your continued tireless support of House Resolution 435, urging the Government of Iran to fulfill its promise to assist in the disappearance of my constituent, Robert Levinson.

The administration can no longer ignore the plight of those suffering in Iran and it must act now.

Now we are sitting across the table from Iran. We have the opportunity to raise Bob's case, to press Bob's case in every single meeting.

It is almost overwhelming. It is--the breadth of abuses in Iran is almost too difficult for us to get our arms around.

I ask my colleagues to support this bipartisan resolution to help bring Bob Levinson back to his family.

How do you trust a totalitarian regime on fissile material, on enrichment issues, whether or not they have a bomb or plan on making bombs--it is plural, not singular--when they so maltreat and torture and murder their own people as well as…

We demand his immediate unconditional return. There should be no kowtowing, no equivocation.

The U.S. must continue to speak out in support, as well as to implement policies that bolster education and outreach to Iranian society.

It may be somewhere on the periphery, but far off the periphery it would seem to me.

We should be speaking out against these abuses. For one, it is our moral responsibility to show Iranians that we are concerned about what happens to them, as human beings.

I urge my colleagues to support this measure.

Human rights cannot take a back seat in negotiations with Iran.

Astounding. Thankfully, Secretary Kerry, when he heard that, did reverse course at the State Department.

I would urge them to tell the Iranians that if they want to send a signal of good faith as to why we should hold out any hope of trust for them, this is how they can do it, help us bring Bob Levinson and the two other detained Americans…

to think about what it would be like to be persecuted, to be subject to death, frankly, because of your sexual orientation;

Words will never be enough to express our gratitude for your son, your family for making the ultimate sacrifice for this country.

There have been 74 school shootings since the Sandy Hook tragedy: Apostolic Revival Center Christian School; Taft Union High School; Stevens Institute of Business; Hazard Community College; Chicago State University; Lone Star College…

Under existing sanctions law, a country is exempt if it makes significant reductions in the importation of Iranian crude oil.

Are those reports accurate?

we focus only on exports of crude oil for determining whether or not sanctions should be imposed.