Quotes by Ted Deutch - Page 2

I have an open door to meet with my constituents and that I work hard to respond to their needs, and I'm proud of the constituent service that we provide.
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Constituent
Respond
Open Door
Work Hard
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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Germany
Helping
Holocaust
Increase
Purpose
Study
Years Ago
Aid
Became
Congressional
Expressed
Group
Several
Survivors
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Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use scare tactics to undermine the retirement security of Americans.
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Prepared
Retirement
Scare
Social Security
Crises
Hostages
Manufacture
Retirement Security
Undermine
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Unfortunately, we have seen terrorist groups use social media to spread hateful propaganda, to recruit members, and to incite violence with alarming effectiveness.
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Effectiveness
Groups
Hateful
Propaganda
Recruit
Social Media
Spread
Terrorist
Alarming
Unfortunately
Incite
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Social media companies must work closely with the U.S. government to ensure their platforms are not being used by terrorist organizations to do harm to our country.
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Harm
Platforms
Social Media
Terrorist
Being Used
Closely
Ensure
Work Government Country
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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Dignity
Discrimination
Lifetime
Retirement
Transgender
Identify
Lesbian
Undermined
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There's no question that looking down to search the Web, send a text message, or log onto Facebook puts you in danger and puts people around you on the road in danger.
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Danger
Facebook
Log
No Question
Onto
Puts
Search
Send
Text
Web
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Kids from financially distressed households are twice as likely to have to repeat a grade and more than two-and-a-half more times to struggle with poor health later in life.
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Poor Health
Twice
Distressed
Financially
Grade
Households
Repeat
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Given my district, it would not have been right to put together a 99-song playlist and not include Barbra Streisand. She has appeal across several demographics of the district.
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Demographics
Streisand
Appeal
Barbra Streisand
District
Include
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I introduced the Food Security Improvement Act in Congress to remedy the fact that most SNAP beneficiaries find themselves skipping meals or running out of benefits every month.
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Beneficiaries
Improvement
Meals
Remedy
Month
Introduced
Skipping
Snap
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I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it's had such a positive impact on my life that I decided to try to help others as well.
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Positive
Congress
Decided
Impact
Made
Positive Impact
Life Decision My Life
After
Try
Came
Got
Help
Help Others
My Life
Well
Soon
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Eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness, and yet so many Americans are left to fight this battle without the coverage, support, and resources they need.
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Battle
Coverage
Illness
Mental Illness
Mortality
Rate
Disorders
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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Cases
Consequence
Wrong Direction
Courts
Denying
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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Independence
Copyright
Flexibility
Rise
Dramatically
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The United States does not provide economic support funds to the Palestinian Authority to build new homes for terrorists or fund President Abbas' anti-Israel campaign trips through Europe.
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Authority
Fund
Palestinian
Campaign
Homes
Terrorists
Trips
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While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
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Devices
Florida
Iranian
Senate
Serving
American Soldiers
Explosive
Improvised
Soldiers
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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Efforts
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Working across the aisle, I helped pass laws exposing business dealings in Iran, cracking down on Iranian human rights abusers, and applying crippling sanctions to Iran's oil and gas industries.
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Aisle
Exposing
Gas
Human Rights
Iran
Oil
Sanctions
Applying
Cracking
Crippling
Industries
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It is well past time for President Abbas to stand up and condemn all acts of violence, rather than encouraging violence by glorifying terrorists and teaching children to view Israelis as animals.
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Encouraging
Acts
Condemn
Glorifying
Israelis
Past Time
Stand Up
Terrorists
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I came here with a lot of things that I would like to get done for my community and my constituents. Shooting hoops at the White House was not at the top of the list but would certainly be a thrill.
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Shooting
Thrill
White House
Hoops
List
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I participate in the SNAP Challenge to raise awareness about the millions of people in our communities who struggle with hunger on a daily basis despite living in the most prosperous nation ever known.
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Despite
Hunger
Millions
Prosperous
Struggle
Basis
Challenge
Communities
Daily
Daily Basis
Millions Of People
Participate
Raise
Snap
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Beyond a power play by the oil industry, there is no conceivable explanation for barring courts within any state from considering cases related to oil leases and energy production off its own coastlines.
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Cases
Considering
Energy Production
Explanation
Oil
Oil Industry
Related
Courts
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In South Florida, where there are so many beneficiaries, when Social Security isn't adjusted to reflect their increased costs, that affects their daily lives and their contributions to our local economy.
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Beneficiaries
Florida
Social Security
South Florida
Adjusted
Affects
Contributions
Daily Lives
Reflect
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It's not class warfare to suggest that we shouldn't look to seniors and the less fortunate to bear the brunt of deficit reduction. I believe America needs to understand there needs to be a sense of fairness.
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Class Warfare
Deficit
Fairness
Fortunate
Reduction
Warfare
Believe Look I Believe
Bear
Brunt
Believe I Believe Look
Deficit Reduction
Seniors
Suggest
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People can certainly take pride in the fact that there is a Jewish candidate for president who has received delegates and who has run a terrific campaign and still work hard to ensure we elect Hillary Clinton.
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Clinton
Delegates
Pride
Terrific
Work People Hard
Jewish
Campaign
Candidate
Elect
Ensure
Hillary
Hillary Clinton
Received
Work Hard
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This isn't about grabbing people's guns; this isn't about changing the Second Amendment. This simply says that someone who is on the terrorist watch list - a dangerous terrorist - should not be able to purchase a gun.
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Grabbing
Gun
Second Amendment
Terrorist
Amendment
Guns
List
Purchase
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I have been talking to a lot of people who don't normally vote Democratic - independents and Republicans. They have been voting for Democrats because they think it's important to change the direction America is going.
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Voting
Change Important People
Democrats
Republicans
Independents
Normally
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No matter how many times you say Social Security is broke, the reality is that Social Security's independent revenue stream and its Trust Fund's investments maintain the program's solvency until 2037, when it may begin to fall short.
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Broke
Fund
Revenue
Social Security
How Many Times
Investments
Maintain
Solvency
Stream
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I've spent my entire adult life involved in the community trying to help people live decent lives, working for a strong and secure state of Israel, and making sure that the most vulnerable in our society receive the care that they need.
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Decent
Secure
Adult Life
Help People
Receive
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Corporations that are formed for the purpose of earning profits do not have the constitutionally protected rights that natural citizens have. They should not spend their corporate dollars, Treasury dollars, to influence outcome of elections.
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Corporate
Corporations
Dollars
Earning
Protected
Treasury
Formed
Outcome
Profits
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I am excited to run in the community where my wife and I work, where my daughters graduated and my son attends high school, where my family goes to synagogue, and where I have spent so much time working for and with the people of South Florida.
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Florida
South Florida
Synagogue
Time Family Work
Daughters
Work Family Time
Family Work Time
Graduated
So Much Time
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From the preemptive strike that destroyed Egypt's air force during the Six-Day War, to the daring raid on Entebbe, to using all available means to slow the Iranian nuclear program, Israelis have combined strength with ingenuity to keep the country's enemies at bay.
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Air Force
Available
Daring
Destroyed
Egypt
Ingenuity
Iranian
Nuclear
Bay
Combined
Enemies
Israelis
Preemptive
Raid
Slow
Strike
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Opening Iran up to foreign investment, increasing its oil exports, and unfreezing over $100 billion in assets means more money for Hamas for building terror tunnels in Gaza, more weapons for Hezbollah in Lebanon, more slaughter in Syria, and more violence worldwide.
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Assets
Gaza
Hamas
Investment
Iran
Lebanon
Oil
Opening
Slaughter
Syria
Terror
Violence
Weapons
Billion
Exports
Foreign
Increasing
Worldwide
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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Debate
Social Security
Contract
Unfortunately
Government Program
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It is no surprise that companies do not often respond to moral pressure alone. We need to hit them hard in their pocketbook and on their balance sheet. We need to show them that their stock prices will be affected if their actions encourage Iran's nuclear weapons ambitions.
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Ambition
Balance
Iran
Moral
Nuclear
Pressure
Surprise
Weapons
Actions
Hit
Companies
Respond
Pocketbook
Sheet
Stock
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There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
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Corporations
Florida
Fund
Count
Dictate
Efforts
Outcome
Undertaken
Votes
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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Billions
Dollars
Infrastructure
Iran
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Public Life
Relief
Return
Sanctions
Threshold
Weapons
Acquiring
Advanced
Billions Of Dollars
Decade
Letting
Maintain
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The Democracy is for People Amendment will stop corporations and their front groups from using their profits and dark money donations to influence our elections while reaffirming the right of the American people to elections that are fair and representatives that are accountable.
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Corporations
Groups
Representatives
Accountable
Amendment
American People
Elections
Donations
Profits
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This OCCUPIED amendment, this constitutional amendment, would overturn Citizens United. It would make clear that corporations aren't people, that they - the framers of the Constitution never intended to give constitutional rights to corporations, the ones that we enjoy and cherish.
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Cherish
Corporations
Framers
Amendment
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Intended
Occupied
Overturn
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Congress has no business telling courts within a state that they are prohibited from considering issues involving a lease for energy development, production, and exploration that has the potential to cause irreparable environmental and economic damage to the Gulf Coast area of that state.
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Environmental
Coast
Considering
Damage
Exploration
Involving
Irreparable
Lease
Courts
Gulf
Gulf Coast
No Business
Prohibited
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Pressure for the most part comes from this overarching concern that if I head into the election season without sufficient resources, then any outside group, any individual, any super PAC may choose to come in to my district and overwhelm it and take over the airwaves and control the debate.
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Concern
Debate
Election
Sufficient
Airwaves
District
Overwhelm
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I believe we're stronger when we speak loudly and unapologetically for human rights; when we stand with our allies against common threats like terrorism, radicalization, and poverty; and when we unite to prevent the world's most dangerous regimes from acquiring the world's deadliest weapons.
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Allies
Human Rights
Regimes
Stronger
Terrorism
Weapons
Acquiring
Deadliest
Loudly
Prevent
Threats
Unite
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In Washington, I am a leader on the issues that matter to my community, and I think that's what my constituents want, and also I think that's what voters want. Someone who understands them, who wants to represent them, and who works tirelessly every day on behalf of their interests and their values.
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Behalf
Constituents
Voters
Represent
Tirelessly
Understands
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Energy legislation in Congress and the focus on energy legislation is first and foremost about creating good jobs. In Florida, where solar and biofuel and wind and so many other areas are important and so many in the private sector continues to pursue these, we need policies that will encourage that.
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Jobs
Congress
Creating
Florida
Focus
Legislation
Private Sector
Pursue
Wind
Area
Foremost
Good Jobs
Policies
Private
Sector
Solar
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Any constitutional amendment that simply gives Congress the option of regulating campaign finance fails to immediately achieve what the American people want, and that is a complete reversal of Citizens United and other Supreme Court decisions that have allowed corporations and the wealthy few to drown out the voices of everyday voters.
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Finance
Campaign Finance
Corporations
Everyday
Reversal
Supreme
Supreme Court
Voters
Amendment
American People
Campaign
Constitutional
Constitutional Amendment
Drown
Option
Fails
Immediately
Voices
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Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.
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Decision
Nuclear
Pressure
Sanctions
Weapons
Bear
Carry
Determines
Forced
Iranians
Quest
Regime
Ultimately
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